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Finance Lead

CBRE

Birmingham

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GBP 45,000 - 65,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

A leading company in real estate services is seeking a Finance Lead to provide exceptional financial support to its operational teams. The role involves budgeting, financial analysis, and ensuring compliance with financial procedures. Ideal candidates will have strong financial acumen, excellent communication skills, and relevant qualifications. This position offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment with a focus on delivering value and achieving financial targets.

Qualifications

Experience in financial information delivery within tight timescales.
Experience in complex multi-country, multi-divisional service businesses.
Demonstrable experience with financial and operational information systems.

Responsibilities

Provide direct financial support and expertise to the accounts.
Compile annual budgets & quarterly forecasts.
Ensure finance procedures are adhered to by operations team.

Skills

Excellent PC based skills

Highly numerate

Excellent communication skills

Organised and open to new ways of working

Education

Higher educational qualifications to ‘A’ level or degree

Part qualified or qualified CCAB accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Dynamics AX

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Birmingham - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, London - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Milton Keynes - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Job Title: Finance Lead

Reports to: Finance & Contract Support Manager

Location: London/ Milton Keynes etc

Job Purpose

To provide excellent financial support to the Account/Portfolio (Finance Contract Manager and their operational teams), through added value financial analysis and valued input to the operational team.

Job Responsibilities

CBRE Finance

Provide direct financial support and expertise to the accounts
Compilation of CBRE annual budgets & quarterly forecasts
Undertake month end flash reporting and post any required journals to ensure P&L accuracy
Provide added value financial commentary to support regular, standard financial reports
Working closely with Finance Contract Manager to implement baseline and savings tracking reporting and analysis
Provide ad-hoc support to Finance Manager as required
Working closely with the team to identify all possible savings opportunities and ensure that financial targets are achieved
Ensure finance procedures are adhered to by operations team, and take corrective action / escalate where required
Support in ad-hoc financial analysis and projects as required

Quality

Policy and procedure compliance
Understanding/familiarity with Excel, dashboards, Power BI and EDP
Support seamless management of contract across multiple regions
Share best practice and innovation especially around contract terms
Deliver on client expectations

People

Liaise with Contract Support teams around the contract
Involve people and influence decisions
Culture and behaviour carrier

Qualifications

Higher educational qualifications to ‘A’ level or degree (or equivalent)
Part qualified or qualified CCAB accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) (desirable)

Skills

Excellent PC based skills, with experience in Word, Excel (including modelling), PowerPoint and Outlook – intermediate to advance level skills are essential (lookups and pivots essential)
Highly numerate
Organised and open to new ways of working to challenge inefficiencies
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, and able to communicate with people at all levels across the account and develop effective relationships at all levels
Complex commercial models and GMP experience (desirable)

Experience

Working in an environment where delivering financial information within tight timescales is a pre-requisite
Reporting in a complex multi-country, multi-divisional, service business (Industry experience) including financial planning and contracts management
Providing senior management with financial results and analysis
Demonstrable experience working with complex financial and operational information systems and controls in a large business that provides consistent and reliable information
Focus on strong focus on customer service
Previous experience of a customer-facing role using operating systems such as Dynamics AX or Concept software along with financial / accounting experience would be an advantage (desirable)
Presentation skills to effectively communicate ideas and results to senior stakeholders (desirable)

Aptitude

The successful candidate will be able to exercise an attention to detail which will be paramount to delivering the required job performance levels
Self-motivated, reliable & flexible team player, who is able to work on own initiative.
Ability to work as part of a team, as well as independently
Calm manner, able to work under pressure and with changing demands and priorities
Excellent organisational skills who is Results/ task orientated, with attention to detail and accuracy

Circumstances

The individual must be willing to undertake travel as the role/business requires

Service line: GWS Segment

Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Finance and Sales

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