Senior Fund Controller - Real Estate

Compensation: £90,000 – £110,000 base + performance-linked bonus and benefits

Location: London (flexible working model)

Mandate: Exclusive

A highly entrepreneurial real estate investment platform is building out its core finance leadership and is appointing a Senior Fund Controller to take early ownership of a fast-scaling, asset-intensive portfolio. This is a rare opportunity to join at a genuine inflexion point: committed capital, live assets, and an active pipeline, with the finance function still deliberately lean and highly influential.

The Platform

The business is founder-led, execution-focused and scaling across operational and value-add real estate creating unusually direct exposure to asset-level performance, capital deployment and investor outcomes. The successful hire will sit at the centre of the platform, shaping how reporting, controls and decision-making are built as the portfolio grows across geographies and mandates.

The Opportunity

• Early-stage platform with significant committed capital and live assets
• Direct exposure to asset-level performance, liquidity and capital partner reporting
• Genuine autonomy and ownership from day one
• Opportunity to design “how things are done”, not inherit legacy processes
• High visibility to founders, investors and asset leadership

This is not a back-office or administrator-led role. It is a commercial fund finance seat with real accountability, judgement and influence.

Role Overview

You will take end-to-end ownership of fund and portfolio reporting across a growing real estate strategy, operating in a deliberately lean environment with no in-house legal or tax function. The role suits someone comfortable being the financial owner, anticipating issues and managing external advisers.

Core Responsibilities

• Ownership of fund and investor reporting, capital accounts and liquidity oversight
• Acting as the primary point of accountability for audits, administrators and advisors
• Narrative-led investor reporting, anticipating capital partner questions
• Oversight of governance, controls and best-practice reporting frameworks
• Supporting acquisitions, refinancings, capex programmes and new structures

Asset-Level Oversight

• Close interaction with asset-level finance and operating teams
• Review and challenge budgets, forecasts, operating performance and cash flow
• Translate asset-level data into decision-ready insight for senior stakeholders
• Understand tax and structural implications on performance and funding

Commercial & Strategic Support

• Partner with investment and asset management teams on live assets
• Maintain and review financial models and commercial assumptions
• Support underwriting, new transactions and portfolio-wide analysis
• Provide a strong financial lens to investment and operational decision-making

You are likely to be:

• Practice-trained (or equivalent) with experience in real estate private equity or operational real estate funds
• Used to operating in small or mid-sized platforms with real ownership rather than narrow role definition
• Commercially minded, able to interpret data and shape narrative — not just produce reports
• Comfortable dealing directly with senior leadership and capital partners
• Motivated by responsibility, impact and platform growth rather than hierarchy

Sector specialism in hospitality or operational real estate is helpful but not essential. Judgement, curiosity and accountability matter more.

Why This Role

• Get in early and help shape a growing real estate investment platform
• Broad, hands‑on remit with genuine influence over outcomes
• Direct exposure to capital partners and asset-level performance
• Clear runway to grow with the business as capital and mandates expand