Finance Business Partner - Real Estate
£65k - £75k plus bonus & amazing benefits
Central London - hybrid working available.
Key Responsibilities
* Set annual net rent budget and other Real Estate team targets
* Collaborate with teams including Asset Management, Leasing, Sustainability, Marketing, Insights and Property Management to understand drivers of net rental income over a 5 year period
* Provide challenge to budget assumptions and identify risks and opportunities
* Understand key drivers of performance and identify priorities for the business
* Communicate outputs to the Real Estate team, including Head of Real Estate, Head of Commercial Finance and Asset Management
* Collaborate with FP&A to support understanding of the key drivers of the Campus budget in the context of the overall corporate budget
* Responsible for quarterly reforecasting process for Campus portfolio, identifying key drivers of performance vs budget
* Meet with Asset Management and Leasing teams to understand and update forecast for latest view on leasing activity
* Communicate drivers of over/underperformance with the business
* Prepare Management Information and communicate to key stakeholders
* Performance vs budget, trend analysis, actuals vs prior periods, and other ad hoc analysis
* Prepare ExCo updates on performance vs leasing target and status of leasing priorities
* Responsibility for Campus updates for the Quarterly Performance Review
* Support Real Estate teams in annual asset business plan process
* Provide supporting asset level data
* Agree asset level priorities with Asset Management
* Ensure adequate control exists around Real Estate processes
* Provide financial analysis for proposed leasing deals, highlighting any potential risks
* Ensure internal approval process is appropriately followed and provide support as required
* Assist with internal controls/risk reporting
* Support the joint venture finance team including preparation and co-ordination of annual business plan and budget as well as providing ad-hoc financial analysis
* Support internal, external, and joint venture reporting requirements
* Provide Campus capex reporting; bi-annual additions reporting, capex commitments and tracking vs budget
* Support Financial Reporting team in understanding variances between forecast and quarterly actuals
* Support Financial Reporting team in quarterly board reporting process for joint venture partners
* Ensure Campus content in external announcements is appropriately verified.
* Identify and drive forward value creating initiatives across the team
* Maintenance and development of the Anaplan property forecast model
* Work on ad-hoc projects and analysis as required