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.
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, helping to prepare audit deliverables, respond to auditor queries and facilitate 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.
- Ideally proficient in one or more European languages, specifically Spanish, German or French.
Skills
- Advanced Excel
- Financial planning systems
- Financial reporting systems
- AI transformation
- Data analysis
- Problem-solving
- Presentation skills
- Stakeholder management
- 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
- 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.
