Finance Lead

2 months ago

Leeds, United Kingdom CBRE Full time

**Job Title**: Finance Lead

**Reports to**: Finance Contract Manager

**Location**: Leeds, UK

**Job Purpose**:
To produce excellent Client Reporting and 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.

**Support in the implementation of new system in 2023 for the Division.**

**Responsibilities**:
**Client Finance**
- Develop strong relationships with both the Client operational and Client finance teams
- Understand the commercial model and enforce governance and compliance to support effective execution
- Produce Client reports and provide value add financial commentary in their portfolio
- Work with the Client to compile annual budgets & quarterly forecasts
- Working closely with operations and commercial team to identify all possible savings opportunities and ensure that financial targets are achieved
- Support collation of monthly accruals to Client finance teams
- Achieve results within quality and time restraints across multiple locations and countries

**CBRE Finance**
- Provide direct financial support and expertise to the account
- 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
- Support compilation of CBRE annual budgets & quarterly forecasts
- 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 Dynamics AX, 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**
- Build trusted relationships with client finance team
- 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 newly 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
- Dealing with Forex in a multi-currency environment
- 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**
- 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

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £32,000.00-£35,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Leeds: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Finance: 4 years (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Leeds

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