Lead Accountant

**Lead Accountant**

**Job ID**
- 226976

**Posted**
- 30-Jun-2025

**Service line**
- Advisory Segment

**Role type**
- Full-time

**Areas of Interest**

Accounting/Finance

**Location(s)**

Frankfurt am Main - Hessen - Germany

**About the Role**:
As a CBRE Lead Accountant, you will be responsible for the preparation of reporting and coordination of client equity contributions and distributions.

This job is part of the Controlling job function. They are responsible for the Management of the organization's financial controls and the preparation of financial reports for management and shareholders.

**What You’ll Do**:

- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated financial statements and other client reporting.
- Compile and evaluate financial data. Perform detailed reviews of monthly and regular reports. Assist with reviewing periodic P&L calculations.
- Operate the daily activities of the treasury, cash management, and accounting functions of the portfolio.
- Verify bank account reconciliations and post journal entries and money-movement transactions. Ensure all transactions are properly posted to the accounting system.
- Coordinate with banks and financial institutions. Handle the financing arrangements and execution of loan agreements.
- Troubleshoot issues and ensures internal and external customer requests are managed timely, accurately, and with a focus on customer service.
- Participate in systems testing and implementation-related tasks.
- Coach others and share in-depth knowledge of own job discipline and broad knowledge of several job disciplines within the function.
- Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Work to build consensus and convince others to reach an agreement.
- Impact a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities within own team and other related teams.
- Work within broad guidelines and policies.
- Explain difficult or sensitive information.

**What You’ll Need**:

- Bachelor’s Degree preferred with 5 years of relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered.
- Ability to exercise judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.
- Willingness to take a new perspective on existing solutions.
- In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
- Organizational skills with an advanced inquisitive mindset.
- Sophisticated math skills. Ability to calculate mildly complex figures such as percentages, fractions, and other financial-related calculations.

**CBRE Investment Accounting & Reporting Solutions**:
CBRE is the largest commercial real estate company in the world, is comprised of several business lines including leasing services, capital markets, valuations & advisory services, and property management; with regional and global capabilities in all major markets around the globe. Within property management, is our CBRE Investment Accounting & Reporting Solutions group that provides investor clients with vertically integrated accounting and data solutions, from property through funds.

In EMEA, CBRE IA&R provides Global and Pan-European coordination for clients providing Fund & SPV Accounting, Investor Reporting and Performance Measurement services to real estate investment-companies, sovereign wealth funds and other institutional investors in key financial markets.

Our team of professionals offer unmatched dedication to real estate. We serve only real estate and have a history of successfully serving all real estate asset classes; including simple to complex investment structures.

We have dedicated fund and investor reporting teams in 18 countries, while also being a part of our global accounting and reporting operating platform with presence in an additional 41 countries for property accounting services to provide completely integrated services.