Global EA Finance Business Partner

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources, we transform challenges into opportunities and deliver outcomes that improve lives. Our capabilities include programme, 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.

About the role

The Global EA Finance Business Partner delivers strategic financial insight and constructive challenge to senior leadership, leads initiatives to enhance financial performance, and manages operational finance teams to maintain consistency, compliance, and process excellence across assigned sub-regions. They ensure optimum performance, accountability, and clarity for the EA business at a global and regional level, liaising with Regional EA Finance Business Partners to achieve this.

Responsibilities

• Provide finance business partnering support to senior commercial and operational leaders, offering clear insights and challenge.
• Prepare, iterate, and present the annual Turner & Townsend corporate budget and periodic re-forecasts for managed accounts.
• Ensure alignment of global and regional EA financial budgets, forecasts, and actual performance.
• Review, challenge, and validate assumptions from accounts in the region regarding business activities.
• Support decision-making by producing forward-looking analysis, forecasts, and scenario modelling.
• Identify and prioritise financial improvement initiatives that enhance profitability, efficiency, or compliance.
• Work alongside the FP&A team to produce periodic budgets, forecasts, bid and commercial reviews, and ad hoc analysis.
• Support the financial control team in producing monthly variance analysis and commentary.
• Ensure accounting standards and financial controls are applied consistently with the support of the financial control team.
• Oversee the financial integrity of all contracts in the sub-region or sector, ensuring compliance with policies and accounting standards.
• Drive standardisation and best practice in contract accounting processes.
• Coach, develop, and support contract accountants to build their skills and careers.
• Adhere to SOX control responsibilities where applicable.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to translate financial data into clear insights and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Commercial awareness and ability to challenge constructively to support better decision-making.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge, particularly in revenue recognition and contract accounting.
• Leadership and people management skills, with experience developing and motivating teams.
• Ability to manage across a diverse portfolio of contracts, prioritising issues and interventions.

Benefits

We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.