Job Description

Areas of Interest

Accounting/Finance

Location(s)

Kuala Lumpur - Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia

Commercial Finance Specialist



A commercial finance professional is a finance business partner who provide insightful and influential analysis to assist management in making well-informed commercial decisions. They will challenge the business to make improvements, such as streamlining expenditure, to maximize profit and improve financial performance. As a trusted business partner, the person will be liaising with multiple functions across the client accounts with CBRE.

Key Responsibilities

• Preparing insightful reporting and analysis on monthly financial performance to support management decision making, and identify significant trends/issues, e.g. monitor performance against forecast and pipeline & provide sound variance commentary.
• Providing finance business partner support to operations team and directors, with financial insights and understanding of key drivers and trends influencing the account.
• Analysis of sales/margins - volume, price, mix vs. forecast - identifying issues, recommending actions, measuring outcomes.
• Leading and improving the budgeting and forecasting processes including agreeing, reviewing, challenging commercial targets with business/department leads.
• Managing ongoing forecasting and finance review to ensure commercial risks and opportunities are highlighted.
• Coordinating and leading the annual financial planning process.
• Providing baseline modelling and scenario testing for new business opportunities.
• Driving margin enhancement initiatives.
• Assisting with commercial proposals; supporting the sales, pricing and transition teams on RFP (tender) process.
• Develop and improve accounting & control processes to ensure that results are reported appropriately and on a timely basis.
• Driving the monthly business performance management process with senior management, ensuring accurate and timely delivery of information.
• Monitoring and partnering with client to ensure a healthy AR position is maintained and resolving disputed invoices.
• Monitoring and partnering with payables team to ensure all vendor payments are disbursed timely.

• Business Level English proficiency
• Must have Accounting / Finance educational background or relevant professional qualifications
• Good to have prior experience in Commercial Finance roles or working in large, matrix style multi-national companies
• Nice to have knowledge/experience in Real Estate business.
• High degree of familiarity with Excel especially on data massaging functions i.e. Pivots, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, SUMIF, Concatenation etc. VBA knowledge is not required.
• Familiar with all Office applications including Word, Outlook & Teams.
• Good to have prior experience with financial data mining software (Eg. TM1)
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• A team player, with a collaborative approach to work with various teams within the organization.
• Engaged and committed to continual process improvements.
• Strong communication skills with experience in presenting financial data to management.
• Ability to work in a flexible working environment, especially when needed to join calls with US leadership at night when needed.