Financial Controller - Enterprise

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. 

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success. 

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, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world. 

Job Description

Turner & Townsend is looking to recruit a Enterprise Accounts (“EA”) Financial Controller who will be responsible for leading financial reporting, accounting, compliance, financial control, and business partnering activities for the region.

Reporting to the NAM Financial Controller, the EA Financial Controller is a key finance leadership role responsible for ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, maintaining a strong financial control environment, supporting business performance, and providing constructive financial insight and challenge to senior operational and commercial leaders.

The role will work closely with regional leadership, operational teams, Regional Controllership, Group Finance, FP&A, and commercial stakeholders to support strategic decision-making, enhance financial performance, ensure compliance with accounting standards and internal controls, and drive consistency and best practice across finance processes.

Responsibilities

Specific responsibilities for the EA Financial Controller role will include:

• Lead the preparation and reporting of timely, accurate financial information in accordance with IFRS, US GAAP, Group accounting policy, and applicable regional requirements, enabling operational teams to make well-informed commercial decisions.
• Maintain a strong internal financial control environment to ensure the accuracy, integrity, and reliability of financial reporting.
• Support the preparation, review, and presentation of annual budgets, periodic forecasts, and long-range financial plans, ensuring assumptions are robust, reliable, and aligned with business strategy.
• Review, challenge, and validate assumptions from business units, accounts, and operational teams regarding forecasted performance, commercial activity, risks, and opportunities.
• Oversee measurement of actual performance against budget and forecast, working with operational teams to manage performance challenges, identify improvement actions, and drive accountability.
• Support the financial control team in the production of monthly variance analysis, commentary, and executive-level reporting.
• Ensure accounting standards, financial controls, and company policies are applied consistently across the region, with particular focus on revenue recognition, contract accounting, and project financial integrity.
• Oversee the financial integrity of contracts across the region, ensuring compliance with policies, accounting standards, and commercial requirements.
• Drive standardization and best practice in contract accounting, financial reporting, forecasting, and control processes.
• Coordinate and ensure compliance with all audit, SOX, tax, statutory, and other regulatory requirements, including preparation of statutory accounts and support for tax filings where applicable.
• Maintain a close working relationship with Group Finance to ensure all internal, external, CBRE, and Group reporting requirements are met.
• Support strategic and ad hoc financial projects, which may include business integrations, acquisitions, due diligence, legal entity restructuring, finance transformation, and system/process improvements.
• Coach, develop, and support contract accountants and finance team members to build technical capability, commercial awareness, and career progression.
• Serve as a member of the wider Finance leadership team, acting as a trusted advisor, mentor, and approachable leader across the Finance organization.
• Adhere to SOX control responsibilities where applicable, ensuring controls are performed accurately, timely, and in accordance with company requirements.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Qualified accountant with significant post-qualification experience, preferably including leadership of a large finance team in an industry or professional services environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related discipline required.
• CPA, CA, ACA, ACCA, CMA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification preferred.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge, particularly in revenue recognition, contract accounting, financial reporting, and internal controls.
• Proven experience preparing, reviewing, and presenting financial analysis, and performance commentary to senior stakeholders.
• Experience working in the professional services, consulting, construction, real estate, infrastructure, or project-based sectors preferred.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 accounting software is preferred.
• Experience operating in a SOX-compliant control environment preferred.

Key Attributes

• Experienced finance professional and hands-on leader who can set the agenda, drive action, and deliver results through a finance team.
• Proven ability to translate financial data into clear insights, recommendations, and actions for senior stakeholders.
• Commercially aware, with the confidence and judgment to challenge constructively and support better decision-making. [
• Strong technical accounting skills, analytical ability, and sound finance judgment.
• Confident communicator with strong interpersonal skills and a leadership style that inspires trust, loyalty, accountability, and commitment.
• Self-starter who takes initiative to improve processes, strengthen controls, and enhance team and company performance.
• Problem solver who identifies and proposes practical solutions, escalating emerging issues appropriately before they become larger challenges.
• Resilient and adaptable, with the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple stakeholders and tight deadlines.
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with experience developing, motivating, and supporting teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, management, and organization skills.
• High level of integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality at all times.

Additional Information

Additional Information

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs* 

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