At a Glance
- Tasks: Support financial forecasting, reporting, and analysis in a dynamic development and construction environment.
- Company: Join a well-regarded finance team in a leading development and construction business.
- Benefits: Clear career progression, competitive salary, and exposure to diverse financial activities.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with opportunities for process improvement and stakeholder engagement.
- Why this job: Gain broad experience in finance with a clear path to advancement and impactful projects.
- Qualifications: Strong numerical skills, Excel proficiency, and a problem-solving mindset are essential.
The predicted salary is between 34650 - 42350 £ per year.
The Opportunity
We're recruiting on behalf of a business with a substantial development and construction portfolio, who are looking to appoint an Analyst, Commercial Finance (Development & Construction) to join their Commercial Finance team. This is a great opportunity for a finance professional who wants broad exposure across the development life cycle, working closely with a Senior Finance Business Partner and Senior Manager to support forecasting, business planning, cash flow reporting, valuations, funding activities and Board reporting across a live portfolio. The role has been designed with a clear progression path in mind, offering a route through to Finance Business Partner and, ultimately, Senior Finance Business Partner. It would suit someone early-to-mid career in finance who wants genuine variety and a defined next step rather than a static analyst role.
What the Role Involves
- Forecasting & Financial Reporting
- Supporting the preparation and maintenance of project forecasts, including budgets, actual costs and forecast costs to complete.
- Updating and reconciling quarterly development cashflows, and assisting with quarterly reforecasting and annual business planning.
- Performing variance analysis against budgets and prior forecasts, highlighting key movements and risks.
- Helping prepare Development and Construction slides for the Board Pack.
- Valuations, Funding & Liquidity
- Supporting the preparation of valuation inputs, including capex to date and forecast costs to complete.
- Assisting with lender reporting, debt drawdown requests and funding reconciliations.
- Supporting liquidity forecasting by maintaining accurate project cashflow information in Anaplan.
- Preparing analysis on debt, equity funding requirements and project returns.
- Governance & Controls
- Maintaining reconciliations between development models, project forecasts and accounting records.
- Supporting reviews of development expenditure approvals and budget revisions.
- Helping ensure financial data is accurate, complete and consistent across all systems and reports.
- Identifying discrepancies and escalating issues to the Senior Manager as needed.
- Systems & Process Improvement
- Supporting the maintenance and development of Anaplan, Yardi and other reporting tools.
- Assisting with data uploads, downloads, reconciliations and reporting processes.
- Contributing to process improvement initiatives that increase efficiency and automation (e.g. Anaplan forecasting, DEX and drawdown process automation in Yardi).
- Developing reporting dashboards and analysis tools where appropriate.
- Business Partnering & Stakeholder Support
- Building strong working relationships with Development Managers, Construction Managers, Financial Accounts, Treasury, FP&A and Development Finance teams.
- Supporting the preparation of information for Boards, Shareholders, JV partners and lenders.
- Responding to stakeholder requests for financial information and analysis.
- Providing ad-hoc commercial analysis and decision support to the wider Commercial Finance team.
What Our Client Is Looking For
- Strong numerical, logical and analytical reasoning skills.
- Strong Excel skills, with exposure to P&L, cashflow and balance sheet forecasts.
- A solid understanding of accounting principles.
- A problem-solving mindset, comfortable diagnosing issues that aren't immediately obvious.
- A continuous improvement mindset, with experience driving process improvements a plus.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage complex datasets.
- Great relationship-building skills across a range of stakeholders.
- Experience building financial models is advantageous.
- Experience with Anaplan, Yardi or similar finance systems is advantageous.
Why Apply
This is a chance to join a well-regarded development and construction finance function with genuine breadth across forecasting, valuations, funding and governance, plus a clearly defined progression route. If this sounds like a good fit for your background, we'd love to hear from you.
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