Divisional Finance Director

About the Role

As a CBRE Divisional Finance Director, you will be the finance leader for a Direct Line Divisional and oversee all of its financial responsibilities. You will contribute to the Division's growth plan by setting and delivering key initiatives, leading people and processes, engaging closely with customers, and governing the company's financial reporting and compliance requirements. This job is part of the Financial Strategy and Operations job function, which maintains accounting, financial, and reporting policies and controls.

Working closely with the Division Leadership Team, you will identify, analyze and implement ways to improve business performance. You will add value to decision making and help develop and implement the divisional and company business plan.

Buy-in from the Division Leadership Team is critical to your success. So is a deep understanding of the Division and its customers, combined with consistent application of finance processes and procedures.

What You'll Do

Customers and Business Partnership

• Build strong working relationships with the Managing Director and the Division senior management team.
• Work with the wider CBRE Finance, Controllership, Business Service Organization (BSO) and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) teams to fulfill ad hoc information requests.
• Understand, report on and deliver complex contractual obligations, such as glide path savings and customer Gross Maximum Price (GMP) commitments, and recognize revenue and costs on time.
• Drive CBRE transformation and client initiatives, working with other functions to align deliverables and results.
• Work with the Operations team to support initiatives within the business.
• Negotiate with external partners, vendors and customers with divergent interests to reach a common goal.

Financial Reporting

• Review and