Senior Finance Manager - Charlotte

Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) Local is a hard services-led, tailored facility management solution. We self-perform hard services while partnering with best-in-class soft service providers to offer custom facility and project management solutions to our clients. We focus on empowering our team with a high-level of downstream accountability, resulting in an agile and efficient service delivery.

In addition to our core facility and project management capabilities, our platform offers direct access to our Best-in-Class services, including ESG, Security Consulting, Workplace Strategy, and Workplace Experience.

As a CBRE Senior Finance & Account Support Manager, you will lead sustainable financial growth by taking ownership of the financial strategy, controls and management information for the Business Unit.

Provide insight and influence to impact performance and maintain competitive advantage alongside financial and Account support leadership and direction in the Business Unit. This will involve personal attitude, use of skills and dissemination of knowledge. Use specialist knowledge and experience to provide insight and influence, to impact performance standards. Implement improvements, drive change, raise standards through the direct and indirect management of the team.

Act as a business partner to the Business Unit Director to both advise and challenge senior management on Account performance. Build meaningful relationships across multi-stakeholders within CBRE leveraging opportunity to improve Business Unit profile

• Developing high-quality and effective Client relationships, especially across the Business Unit.
• Build good working relationships with account management and key client members and be a business partner for both.
• Assist with client team requests in a timely and accurate manner.
• Tightly manage Account governance, demonstrating an in-depth knowledge of the terms and conditions of the contract to ensure that all cost elements are appropriately accounted for.
• Positively respond to both our internal and external customers (often in a matrix environment) through effective communication and personal accessibility/credibility.

• Participate in monthly formal Account and Business unit reviews. Ensure the use of the best practices, communication, and understanding of key business messages through monthly site visits with a focus on underperforming Accounts.
• Prepare accurate Business Unit reports in line with the monthly company timetable including full Profit & Loss account with analysis and commentary, Balance