Finance Analyst, Finance - London
Job Description

DESCRIPTION

At CoStar Group, our finance group centralises transaction processes, providing accurate reporting, financial resolutions, and proper forecasting analysis. Joining the team offers access to financial specialisations, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash and asset management, client contracts and billing, and revenue recognition. The Senior Finance Analyst will be primarily responsible for assisting in the monthly close process, including preparation of monthly journal entries, account reconciliations, and variance analyses related to the monthly results.
This position will also play a key role in supporting financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis of CoStar’s international entities. Other responsibilities for this position include assisting in implementation of changes and enhancements to the Company’s Enterprise Resource Planning system. This position may also get exposure to technical accounting issues, including business combinations and integrations, and have interactions with our external auditors.

QUALIFICATIONS

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified
• Experience in managing and developing reporting, comfortable with large volumes of data.
• Strong system skills including Oracle and MS Office, particularly Excel (Pivot tables, vlookups, Power Query, etc).
• Demonstrate a continuous improvement approach to work, including but not limited to, identifying areas for process improvements and implementing robust solutions.
• Experience of working to a monthly close cadence
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and provide actionable insights
• Strong project management, time management and communication skills
• Ideally proficient in one or more European languages, specifically Spanish, German or French

• Responsible for managing the P&L and BS of specific CoStar international products/ services. This includes:
• Ensuring accuracy and timeliness of monthly financial data through processing monthly journal entries.
• Delivery of month end results, including consistent and insightful reporting to business unit leaders and contribution to the monthly management accounts commentary.
• Challenging stakeholders to drive accountability, as well as providing them with the tools necessary to track progress against their financial targets and most importantly, allow them to keep within agreed budgets.
• Demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of revenue performance & cost drivers.
• Developing and managing financial models to support budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning.
• Partner with Group Finance to aid key business objectives (e.g. acquisition integrations). Specifically, to support on controls management, including implementation of controls, improvements to international systems, processes and reporting.
• Collaborate and be the lead partner with group treasury, tax and payroll to ensure compliance with corporation tax, VAT and payroll tax requirements of specific international countries.
• Be the lead conduit with external auditors and facilitate review of the close process, account reconciliations and variance analyses.