Finance Manager in Brussels, Belgium

Finance Manager

Job ID

172537

Posted

24-Jun-2024

Service line

GWS Segment

Role type

Full-time

Areas of Interest

Accounting/Finance

Location(s)

Amsterdam ‘- Noord-Holland – Netherlands, Brussels – Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest – Belgium, London – England – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Madrid – Madrid, Comunidad de – Spain

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions is a leading global provider of integrated facilities and corporate real estate management. We are recruiting a Finance Manager to join the account team in Europe.

Role Summary:

• Assist in driving Financial and Contract Governance across the portfolio to ensure accurate, timely and consistent reporting

• Ensure appropriate Financial Control is in place on the account and managed on a monthly basis including, overseeing balance sheet reconciliations for the Account and ensuring timeliness / accuracy

• Participate in monthly account business reviews and manage agreed Finance actions

• Understand, anticipate and deliver customer (internal and external) needs while building effective relationships

• Build and develop relationships with Client teams and key leaders

• Lead month end close in coordination with local controllership and shared services teams for countries in which client operates

• Deliver monthly financial reports and forecasts as required by the client timely and with accuracy

• 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

• Monthly payroll review – ensure that correct costs are allocated to the account corporate P&L and any recharges processed

• Debt report – ownership of debt management

• Business Review – production of pack

• Monthly prefund reconciliation – ensure all costs charged to TR

• Drive Corporate profitability

Experience Required:

Essential

• Hold a Chartered Accountant qualification (or equivalent)

• Highly computer literate

Desirable

• Evidence of formal management training

• Previous experience of a service industry role using operating systems (Peoplesoft, JDE and Iscala)

• Proven commercial acumen and ability to contribute to decision-making

• 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

CBRE GWS

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) works with clients to make real estate a meaningful contributor to organizational productivity and performance. Our account management model is at the heart of our client-centric approach to delivering integrated real estate solutions. Each client is entrusted with a dedicated leader and is supported by regional and global resources, leveraging the industry’s most robust platform. CBRE GWS delivers consistent, measurably superior outcomes for our clients at every stage of the lifecycle, and across industries and geographies.

Find out more (https://www.cbre.com/real-estate-services/directory/global-workplace-solutions)

CBRE, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer (Women/Minorities/Persons with Disabilities/US Veterans)