Financial Accountant

CBRE Central Functions
CBRE is the global leader in real estate services and leverages the industry’s most powerful knowledge base to meet the commercial real estate needs of its clients worldwide. Our vision is to be the preeminent, vertically integrated, globally capable real estate service firm. Globally we employ over 70,000 employees and operate in 48 countries.

Financial Accountant
This role sits within the Global Workplace Solutions (“GWS”) segment of CBRE in the central Controllership finance team looking after the UK & Ireland (“UK&I”) business, which has an annual turnover of c. $2.7bn.

This role provides expertise and capability to help GWS manage our risks effectively and meet our financial control and compliance obligations.

Responsibilities

• Support Business Finance on technical accounting matters using expertise within Controllership to provide accurate guidance

• Develop knowledge of sub-segment processes and identify opportunities for enhancement and / or efficiency improvement

• Attend Business Finance meetings to fully understand the performance of the sub-segments (e.g. month-end performance reviews, project / contract / balance sheet reviews)

• Challenge, support and contribute to judgmental decisions impacting financial reporting within Business Finance

• Support both Business Finance and Controllership in successfully closing the ledgers accurately & on-time each financial close

• Periodically review ASC606 checklists for new contracts to ensure correct assumptions for revenue recognition

• Assist the Financial Reporting Team within Controllership with explanations for variances in the Balance Sheet flux analysis (a key SOX control)

• Play a key role in preparing the revenue analytics by reviewing revenue checklists prepared by Business Finance (a compensating SOX control over revenue).

• Assist the sub-segment Financial Controllers in completing quarterly reporting to Group, including but not limited to; the technical questionnaire, non-GAAP reporting disclosures, SAB99 submission and S302 return.

• Support the Statutory Accounting Managers with the Group and Statutory audits

Person Specification

• ACA or ACCA qualified accountant or equivalent

• Experience of working with internal controls, which is likely to include experience in working in external / internal audit

• Demonstrable aptitude for business process improvement

• Experience of preparing reports for key stakeholders

• Experience working with SOX controls preferred