CoStar Group
Senior Finance Analyst - Finance, London
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Senior Finance Analyst - Finance, London
Job Description
COSTAR GROUP – SENIOR FINANCE ANALYST – LONDON, UK
OVERVIEW
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.
We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed, and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.
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.
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ROLE DESCRIPTION
CoStar Group is seeking an experienced Senior Commercial Finance Analyst to join our London-based Finance team. Reporting to the International Finance Director, 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 serve as:
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- A key finance business partner across CoStar Group's international operations, supporting leadership teams across multiple products and business lines.
- A key role in delivering financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis of CoStar’s international entities.
- Support year-end audit requirements, including helping to prepare audit deliverables, respond to auditor queries, and support review of month-end outputs, account reconciliations, and variance analyses.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Act as a trusted finance business partner to senior stakeholders across CoStar Group's international business.
- Responsible for managing the P&L and BS of specific CoStar international products/services. This includes:
- Ensuring accuracy and timeliness of monthly financial data.
- Delivery of 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.
- Developing and managing 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.
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QUALIFICATIONS
- 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 but not limited to, identifying areas for process improvements and implementing robust solutions.
- Ideally proficient in one or more European languages, specifically Spanish, German, or French.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
Working at CoStar Group means you'll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines.
As well as having an outstanding working environment, equipped to help you to be your best, other perks include full private medical cover, dental cover, Life Assurance, and member rewards, 28 days annual leave, a competitive pension, season ticket loans, enhanced maternity and paternity pay, and much more.
At CoStar, we recognize 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.
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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
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