About the Role
CoStar Group is seeking an experienced Senior Commercial Finance Analyst to join our London-based Finance team. This role will serve as a key finance business partner across CoStar Group's international operations, supporting leadership teams across multiple products and business lines. The Senior Finance Analyst will be instrumental in delivering financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis of CoStar’s international entities.
Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted finance business partner to senior stakeholders across CoStar Group's international business.
- Manage the P&L and BS of specific CoStar international products/services, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of monthly financial data.
- Deliver month-end results, including consistent and insightful reporting to business unit leaders and contribution to the monthly management accounts commentary.
- Provide detailed analysis of revenue performance, operating expenses, profitability, and key business drivers.
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Product teams to evaluate growth opportunities, pricing strategies, and return on investment.
- Produce and present executive-level reporting, highlighting key trends, opportunities, risks, and performance drivers.
- Develop and manage financial models to support budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning.
- Help introduce AI transformation activities across International Finance, identifying opportunities to automate manual processes, improve reporting efficiency, and strengthen data-driven decision making.
- Support and assist with external audit processes, including preparing audit deliverables, responding to auditor queries, and facilitating review of month-end close outputs, account reconciliations, and variance analyses.
Requirements
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified
- Experience in managing and developing reporting, comfortable with large volumes of data.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience working with financial planning and reporting systems.
- Experience of working to a monthly close cadence.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities with strong attention to detail.
- Ability to communicate complex financial concepts to non-financial audiences.
- Strong presentation and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced and highly collaborative environment.
- Demonstrate a continuous improvement approach to work, including identifying areas for process improvements and implementing robust solutions.
Skills
- Advanced Excel
- Financial planning systems
- Financial reporting systems
- AI transformation
- Data analysis
- Stakeholder management
- Presentation skills
- Spanish
- German
- French
Location
- London, UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- ACA
- ACCA
- CIMA
Benefits
- Full private medical cover
- Dental cover
- Life Assurance
- Member rewards
- 28 days annual leave
- Competitive pension
- Season ticket loans
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
About the Company
- CoStar Group is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces.
- Included in the S&P 500 Index, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world's real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.
- CoStar is the global leader in commercial real estate information, analytics and news.
- Commercial Real Estate industry professionals around the globe use CoStar to access the most comprehensive data to make decisions with confidence.
- CoStar delivers immediate, verified commercial real estate information on over 5.9 million properties across every market.
Equal Opportunity
- CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
- At CoStar, we recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds including but not limited to; people of all genders, of all ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and beliefs.
