Senior Finance Analyst

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions is a leading global provider of integrated facilities and corporate real estate management. We are recruiting a Senior Finance Analyst to join the Johnson Controls team located in the UK. The successful candidate will be a point of contact EMEA, initially dealing with UK and will need to build sustainable relationships with country platform finance teams that support them to ensure the smooth financial performance of the account.

Responsibilities

• The overall goal of the role is to help drive profit and support growth through analytics
• Responsible for the on-account client reporting
• Work effectively to ensure client reporting books are well maintained with timely reporting; enable proactive and effective financial control of operations, including delivery to plan
• Ensure all policies and SOX controls are applied to the account and adhered to, providing training and guidance where required
• To perform client month end closing - using various systems being implemented
• Manage monthly consolidation, analysis and reporting for commercial reviews, monthly / periodic forecasting as necessary, and annual budgeting
• Ensure reports are timely, support business decisions, and provide proactive financial and commercial support to the Management team in all business decisions
• Manage client variance reporting on monthly and year to date basis
• Work closely with the operations teams on site budgets, contract variations and portfolio changes and provide guidance as necessary
• Work effectively with other members of the local finance team and help develop a value adding finance function on the account
• Be closely involved in the transition of FM Growth for additional regions/countries
• Be closely involved in the roll out of any new systems and the requisite effective interchange of data between corporate and client reporting systems
• Work closely with the site operations to ensure PO compliance, acting as a point of escalation internally and for supplier queries
• Support ad-hoc requests from client, operations, and management team.

Requirements

Education

• Full or part qualified accountant
• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from a four-year college or university in a business-related field.

Skills

• Strong analytical and commercial skills
• Cultural awareness
• Highly self-motivated, confident and self-starter
• Excellent IT skills, must be highly competent in using Excel
• Good communication & presentation skills
• Ability to apply excellent written and verbal communication skills to accurately explain/report activity.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills. Ability to provide efficient, timely, reliable, and courteous service to customers.
• Ability to respond effectively to sensitive issues and work collaboratively with business partners, key employees, top management, and client groups on various projects.

Knowledge

Essential-

• Good knowledge of CBRE financial tools Peoplesoft, Dynamics

Desirable-

• CPA or MBA (graduate degree) preferred, but not required (depending on experience).

Experience

• Demonstrate experience in finance analyst role
• Strong financial control experience.

About CBRE Global Workplace Solutions:

As one of CBRE’s core global businesses, Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) provides end-to-end services to occupier clients across the entire lifecycle of a building. Our teams help companies improve their operations and reduce costs, through expert facilities management, project management, real estate and energy and sustainability services. Our dedicated teams work across all industries, and support clients ranging from global Fortune 500 companies to single, iconic buildings.

CBRE Group, Inc. is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with 2019 revenues of $23.9 billion and more than 100,000 employees (excluding affiliate offices). CBRE has been included on the Fortune 500 since 2008, ranking #128 in 2020. It also has been voted the industry’s top brand by the Lipsey Company for 19 consecutive years and has been named one of Fortune’s “Most Admired Companies” for eight years in a row, including being ranked number one in the real estate sector in 2020, for the second consecutive year. Its shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “CBRE.”

Application Process:

Your application will be reviewed by our Talent Resourcing Team and you will be contacted if you have been successful in being short listed for the role.

Taking into consideration the costs of sponsorship, the nature of the role and the financial resources of the account in question, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

No agencies please.

Please note: the job title shown above may be different to local job titles used in our business and issued on any contract of employment.

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Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Flexitime
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Remote