Professional Experience
Kelli Fly is the Senior Managing Director and Head of the Americas property accounting services for CBRE’s Investment Accounting & Reporting Solutions group. Based in Memphis, Kelli is responsible for providing property to fund level accounting, reporting and administration services to real estate owners and institutional investment managers, as well as providing accounting services to CBRE’s global occupier clients. She has direct oversight of the shared service centers in Memphis, Minneapolis, Phoenix, and Toronto and CBRE’s Business Process Outsourcing providers. Kelli leads a combined team of 1,100 financial professionals and 260 outsourced resources providing accounting services for her internal and external clients.
Kelli joined CBRE more than nine years ago in Global Workplace Solutions Client Accounting, where she began as a Senior Controller managing Financial Reporting teams. From this role, Kelli moved into a role overseeing the Shared Services departments for GWS including Technology, Learning & Development, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Compliance, Process Improvement, and Cash Management. Her role expanded to include direct oversight of the Americas GWS Accounting Services teams along with global responsibilities for compliance, outsourcing strategy and management, and technology. Kelli has a proven track record of achieving results through process re-engineering, transformation, automation and optimization initiatives.
Prior to joining CBRE, Kelli was the Executive Manager at Global Cotton Recovery, LLC, for eight years.
Education / Accreditations
- University of Memphis
- Master of Business Administration, Accounting
- University of Memphis
- Bachelor of Arts, Psychology