Global EA Finance Business Partner

Turner-; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend seeks a Global EA Finance Business Partner in Atlanta to deliver strategic financial insight to senior leadership, lead initiatives to improve performance, and manage regional finance teams to ensure compliance and process excellence.

You will partner with commercial and operational leaders, align budgets and forecasts, and perform forward-looking analysis while coaching contract accountants and upholding controls where applicable.

Qualifications

• Translate financial data into clear insights and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrate commercial awareness and the ability to challenge constructively to support better decision-making.
• Show strong technical accounting knowledge, particularly in revenue recognition and contract accounting.
• Exhibit leadership and people management skills with experience developing and motivating teams.
• Ability to manage across a diverse portfolio of contracts, prioritising issues and interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provide finance business partnering support to senior commercial and operational leaders, offering clear insights and challenge.
• Prepare, iterate and present annual T&T corporate budget and periodic re-forecasts for accounts managed.
• Ensure alignment of global and regional EA financial budgets, forecasts and actual performance.
• Review, challenge, and validate assumptions from accounts in the region regarding business activities.
• Support decision-making by producing forward-looking analysis, forecasts, and scenario modelling.
• Identify and prioritise financial improvement initiatives that enhance profitability, efficiency, or compliance.
• Work with FP&A to produce budgets, forecasts, bid & commercials reviews and ad hoc analysis.
• Support monthly variance analysis & commentary by the financial control team.

Skills

Financial analysis

Stakeholder communication

Leadership & people management

Contract accounting knowledge

Revenue recognition

Job description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include program, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

The Global EA Finance Business Partner delivers strategic financial insight and constructive challenge to senior leadership, leads initiatives to enhance financial performance, and manages operational finance teams to maintain consistency, compliance, and process excellence across assigned sub-regions. They ensure optimum performance, accountability and clarity for the EA business at a global and regional level, liaising with Regional EA Finance Business Partners to ensure this.

Responsibilities will comprise of supporting across multiple areas, including but not limited to:

Business Partnering and Commercial Support

• Provide finance business partnering support to senior commercial and operational leaders, offering clear insights and challenge.
• Prepare, iterate and present back annual T&T corporate budget and periodic re-forecasts for accounts managed.
• Ensure alignment of the global and regional EA financial budgets, forecasts and actual performance.
• Review, challenge, and validate assumptions from accounts in the region regarding businessactivities.
• Support decision-making by producing forward-looking analysis, forecasts, and scenario modelling.
• Identify and prioritise financial improvement initiatives that enhance profitability, efficiency, or compliance.
• Work alongside FP&A team to produce periodic budgets, forecasts, bid & commercials reviews and an hoc analysis
• Support the financial control team in production of monthly variance analysis & commentary
• Ensure accounting standards and financial controls are applied consistently with the support of the financial control team
• Oversee the financial integrity of all contracts in the sub-region or sector, ensuring compliance with policies and accounting standards.
• Drive standardisation and best practice in contract accounting processes.
• Coach, develop, and support contract accountants to build their skills and careers.
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable

Qualifications

• Proven ability to translate financial data into clear insights and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Commercial awareness and ability to challenge constructively to support better decision-making.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge, particularly in revenue recognition and contract accounting.
• Leadership and people management skills, with experience developing and motivating teams.
• Ability to manage across a diverse portfolio of contracts, prioritising issues and interventions.

Additional Information

*On site requirements might change based on client needs*

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.