Finance Manager

$100,000 - $850,000/Yr

CBRE - Providence, RI

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Providence, RI

Real Estate

About the position

As a CBRE Finance Manager, you will play a pivotal role in managing a team that is responsible for producing key outputs associated with Finance Strategy and Operations. This includes overseeing the annual budget preparation, monthly forecasts, strategic planning, and management reporting. You will be part of the Financial Strategy and Operations job function, which is crucial for maintaining accounting, financial, and reporting policies and controls within the organization. In this role, you will provide formal supervision to employees, ensuring their training and development. You will conduct performance evaluations and coaching, as well as oversee the recruiting and hiring of new team members. Your responsibilities will also include coordinating and managing the team's daily activities, establishing work schedules, assigning tasks, and cross-training staff. You will set and track deadlines for both staff and the department, mentoring and coaching as needed to ensure high performance. You will oversee the budgeting process, forecasting process, strategic planning process, and standard management reporting. This includes reviewing balance sheet account analysis, statement of cash flows, and supporting schedules, as well as standard consolidated reporting packs for accuracy. You will also review and approve basic monthly journal entries and produce a variety of routine and ad hoc financial reports, packages, and pro forma analyses for senior management and planning units. Additionally, you will coordinate the research, development, and preparation of accounting policies and procedures, exchange and explain difficult information, convey performance expectations, and handle sensitive issues. Your leadership will be essential in influencing parties of shared interests to reach agreements and in modeling behaviors consistent with CBRE's RISE values. You will apply your knowledge of your discipline and how it integrates with others to achieve team and departmental objectives, while also identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving day-to-day and moderately complex issues that may arise.

Responsibilities

• Provide formal supervision to employees and monitor their training and development.
• Conduct performance evaluations and coaching for team members.
• Oversee the recruiting and hiring of new employees.
• Coordinate and manage the team's daily activities, establishing work schedules and assigning tasks.
• Set and track staff and department deadlines, mentoring and coaching as needed.
• Oversee the budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, and management reporting processes.
• Review balance sheet account analysis, statement of cash flows, and supporting schedules for accuracy.
• Review and approve basic monthly journal entries.
• Produce routine and ad hoc financial reports, packages, and pro forma analyses for senior management.
• Coordinate research, development, and preparation of accounting policies and procedures.
• Exchange and explain difficult information and handle sensitive issues.
• Influence parties of shared interests to reach agreements.
• Lead by example and model behaviors consistent with CBRE RISE values.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve day-to-day and moderately complex issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree preferred with 3-5 years of relevant experience; a combination of experience and education will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Experience in staffing, selection, training, development, coaching, mentoring, measuring, appraising, and rewarding performance and retention preferred.
• Ability to guide the exchange of sensitive, complicated, and difficult information and handle problems effectively.
• Leadership skills to motivate team impact on quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the job discipline and department.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Extensive organizational skills with a strong inquisitive mindset.
• Intermediate math skills, including the ability to calculate complicated figures such as percentages and fractions.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in financial strategy and operations roles.
• Familiarity with accounting policies and procedures.
• Strong communication skills for conveying performance expectations.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $85,000 to $100,000 annually based on skills and experience.
• Equal Employment Opportunity and commitment to diversity.
• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in the application process.