Global EA Finance Business Partner

Turner & Townsend; Georgia; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in the United States is seeking a Global EA Finance Business Partner to deliver strategic financial insight and lead initiatives to improve performance. You will manage regional finance teams and partner with senior leaders to ensure compliant budgets, forecasts, and rigorous financial controls.

The role requires strong accounting knowledge, leadership, and the ability to translate data into actionable insights, collaborating with regional partners to standardise processes and

Qualifications

• Experience in finance business partnering to senior leaders.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis skills.
• Solid accounting knowledge, especially revenue recognition and contract accounting, with SOX exposure.

Responsibilities

• Provide finance business partnering support to senior commercial and operational leaders, offering clear insights and challenge.
• Prepare, iterate and present back annual Turner & Townsend 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 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 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

Skills

Finance partnering

Financial analysis

Budgeting & forecasting

Contract accounting

SOX controls

Leadership

Stakeholder management

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.

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

• 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.

*On site requirements might change based on client needs*

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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.