Finance Lead Job in Birmingham, West Midlands

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Finance Lead Job in Birmingham, West Midlands

Job Description
Company Profile

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.

Job Title: Finance Lead

Role Summary

*Assist in driving Financial and Contract Governance across the Account to ensure accurate, timely and consistent reporting
*Performing month end ensuring costs are allocated to the correct general ledger account and balance sheet reconciles with sufficient support in a SOX environment
*Ensure appropriate Financial Control is in place on the account and managed on a monthly basis
*Participate in monthly account business reviews and manage agreed Finance actions
*Understand, anticipate and deliver customer (internal and external) needs while building effective relationships
*Supporting Finance Manager with day to day and adhoc tasks
*Build and develop relationships with Client teams and key leaders
*Positively respond to both our internal and external customers through effective communication and personal accessibility
*Have thorough knowledge of procedures and processes, and operate them to the required standard
*Manual accrual ownership – review, validate and challenge operations team to manage efficient processing of payments
*Weekly cost report reviews- providing company with valuable insights into expenditure
*Business Review – providing data to the operational teams ahead of their reviews
*Innovate and challenge processes to streamline current tasks

Experience Required:

Minimum

* Part qualified accountant with interest in completing qualification
* Financial accounting experience
* Excellent IT skills – Excel and Powerpoint
* Highly computer literate- excel
* Willing to take ownership/responsibility of tasks

Desirable

* Knowledge of SOX controls
* Experience in real estate environment
* Previous experience using operating systems (Peoplesoft, Dynamics AX, TM1, Power BI)
* Strong communication skills
* Self-motivated and ambitious
* Strong focus on customer service
* Capable of critical thinking / decision making
* Results / task orientated, with attention to detail and accuracy
* Excellent time management / organisational skills
* Commitment to continuous improvement
* Ability to work as part of a team, as well as independently
* Committed to customer service delivery
* Able to work under pressure
* Confidential and discrete approach

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands
Category: Accounting/Financial/Insurance
City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands (County)
Country: United Kingdom
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