Global EA Finance Business Partner

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. 

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success. 

Our capabilities include program, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions. 

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world. 

Job Description

The Global EA Finance Business Partner delivers strategic financial insight and constructive challenge to senior leadership, leads initiatives to enhance financial performance, and provides leadership to finance teams across assigned business areas. The role is responsible for driving financial performance, developing talent, ensuring strong financial governance, and supporting strategic business decision-making across the EA organization.

This position ensures optimum performance, accountability, and financial transparency for the EA business, working closely with sector leadership and senior stakeholders to ensure alignment of financial objectives, forecasts, and operational performance.

The role is suited to an experienced finance professional with a minimum of 7 years of progressive finance experience and a m inimum 2 years of direct people management responsibility, capable of influencing senior stakeholders and leading finance teams within a complex global environment.

Responsibilities will comprise supporting multiple areas, including but not limited to:

Business Partnering and Commercial Support

• Provide finance business partnering support to senior commercial and operational leaders, offering clear financial insights and constructive challenge.
• Prepare, review, and present the annual corporate budget and periodic reforecasts for assigned accounts.
• Ensure alignment between global and regional EA financial budgets, forecasts, and actual performance.
• Review, challenge, and validate assumptions provided by accounts across the region regarding business activities and financial outcomes.
• Support decision-making through forward-looking analysis, forecasting, scenario modelling, and risk assessment.
• Identify and prioritize financial improvement initiatives that enhance profitability, efficiency, compliance, and business performance.
• Work alongside the FP&A team to produce budgets, forecasts, bid and commercial reviews, and ad hoc financial analysis.
• Support the Financial Control team in the production of monthly variance analysis and management commentary.
• Ensure financial controls and accounting policies are applied consistently, working in partnership with the Financial Control team.
• Oversee the financial integrity of contracts within the assigned sector, ensuring compliance with company policies and accounting requirements.
• Drive standardization, simplification, and best practices across contract accounting and financial management processes.
• Influence strategic and operational decision-making through financial analysis, performance insights, and recommendations.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders across finance, commercial, and operational functions.
• Ensure accurate and timely reporting of financial performance, risks, and opportunities.

People Leadership and Team Management

• Lead, manage, and develop finance team members, establishing clear objectives and performance expectations.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and customer focus within the finance team.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and development opportunities to build team capability and support career progression.
• Drive succession planning and talent development to ensure a sustainable and high-performing finance function.
• Support organizational change initiatives and promote adoption of new processes and ways of working.

Governance and Compliance

• Ensure compliance with internal policies, financial controls, and governance requirements.
• Support internal and external audit activities as required.
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role and must be adhered to where applicable.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years' progressive experience in finance, commercial finance, FP&A, finance business partnering, or related finance roles.
• Minimum 2 years of direct people management experience, including responsibility for coaching, performance management, talent development, and leading high-performing teams.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex financial data into clear insights and actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to provide constructive challenge to support business decision-making.
• Experience partnering with senior commercial and operational leaders within a complex business environment.
• Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, scenario modelling, and performance reporting processes.
• Strong understanding of financial reporting, contract profitability, revenue recognition principles, and financial controls.
• Ability to manage a diverse portfolio of contracts, prioritizing issues, risks, and interventions effectively.
• Experience driving process improvement, standardization, and financial governance across multiple business areas.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
• Ability to work independently while effectively managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working across multiple countries, regions, or global business functions preferred.

Additional Information

*On site requirements might change based on client needs*

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. 

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community. 

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application. 

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