About the Role:As a CBRE Accounting Sr. Manager of Compensation, you will lead all accounting, analysis, and reporting activities associated with CBRE's global bonus compensation programs - an annual spend more than $1B across more than 150,000 employees in over 70 countries.
The role serves as the primary Controllership partner for Total Rewards, HR, and cross-functional segment and regional finance teams on all bonus-related matters. You will own end-to-end process integrity across the full bonus cycle: balance sheet management, global reconciliation, year-end validation process design, and leadership-level modeling. The ideal candidate combines deep technical accounting knowledge with the ability to build scalable processes and communicate complex financial information to senior leadership.
What You'll Do:- Own the US bonus balance sheet: reviews and dispositions aged or unsupported items.
- Lead the global bonus reconciliation, tying segment over/under submissions to the consolidated accrual.
- Design and execute the year-end validation process, from template freeze through Beqom posting.
- Serve as primary finance reviewer in Beqom.
- Build bonus scenario models for leadership: P&L and accrual impact.
- Own the monthly line-of-business (LOB) bonus report.
- Lead bonus communications to business units and Total Rewards.
- Document the end-to-end bonus process in a formal SOP.
- Partner with segment accounting, Business Finance, and the Shared Services Organization on monthly close and ad hoc bonus accounting matters.
- Support Compensation and Benefits on internal and external audit requirements.
- Apply a broad knowledge of the business, own discipline, and how own discipline integrates with others to achieve team and departmental objectives.
- Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Influence others to adopt a different point of view while being guided by policies and departmental plans.
- Identify and solve technical and operational problems of complexity.
- Understand and recognize the broader impact across the department.
- Improve and change existing methods, processes, and standards within job discipline.
What You'll Need:To perform this job successfully, an individual will need to perform each crucial duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
- CPA or MBA (graduate degree) preferred.
- 5+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience with demonstrated ownership of balance sheet accounts and month-end close.
- Compensation, benefits, or HR finance experience required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; translates complex financial information for non-finance audiences.
- Proven experience presenting to senior leadership and VP-level stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; translates complex financial information for non-finance audiences.
- Proven experience presenting to senior leadership and VP-level stakeholders
- Advanced Excel, Beqom, TM1, Oracle, SAP or Peoplesoft experience required.
- Strong work ethic; sets priorities and manages multiple critical deadlines across a complex global program with minimal supervision.
- Strong attention to detail with a proactive, solutions-oriented approach.
- Ability to lead the exchange of sensitive, complicated, and difficult information, convey performance expectations and handle problems.
- Leadership skills to motivate the team to achieve broad operational targets with impacts on own job discipline, multiple job disciplines, and department.
- In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
- Intermediate math skills. Ability to calculate complicated figures such as percentages, fractions, and other financial-related calculations.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.
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