Finance Lead

CBRE Local UK
Job Title: Finance Lead

Reports to: Finance & Contract Support Manager

Location: Leeds

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