Finance Business Partner - Workplace Investments

WE ARE LANDSEC

We identify and shape places that create opportunity, enhance quality of life, and bring joy to the people connected to them. This is how we've created the UK's leading portfolio of urban places and one of the largest real estate companies in Europe. Our £10 billion portfolio is built around premium workplaces, the country's pre-eminent retail platform, and a residential pipeline that will redefine urban life. We've honed this ability over 80 years. Spotting the opportunities, building the partnerships, and continually adapting to shape the places that meet the needs of a changing world. Places where life happens. Where businesses grow. And where cities are defined.

Location

This role is based at Victoria, London and offers hybrid working (Minimum 3 days in the office).

The Team

You will join the Workplace Finance team within the broader Commercial Finance function, working in close collaboration with the Workplace Business Unit-particularly the Investment team-and Group Finance. The team acts as a highly proactive and commercially astute business partner, playing a central role in driving performance and maximising value creation across both earnings and property valuations.

The team culture is collaborative, supportive, and focused on continuous improvement. You will work alongside experienced finance professionals who value clear communication, teamwork, strong analytical skills, and a proactive mindset that embraces accountability and delivers positive change.

The role

• A key role within Commercial Finance, reporting to the Finance Director of Workplace, this position leads strategic business partnering for the ExCo Member - Head of Investments. The role is integral to Landsec's investment activity, with a primary focus on acquisitions and disposals, and plays a pivotal part in delivering the Group's capital recycling strategy.
• Acting as the finance business partner to the Head of Investments, the role is responsible for managing performance and shaping financial plans for Workplace Investments, working across the portfolio to enhance performance through a disciplined capital allocation lens.
• Salary: Competitive

Principle Accountabilities

• Provide strategic planning and decision support to the Head of Investments, delivering financial insights to guide long term goals and strategies focusing on investments (including referencing to external benchmarking), whilst providing robust challenge and influencing the delivery of their financial KPI's.
• Lead the budgeting and forecasting processes for Workplace's operational capex, valuations and acquisitions & disposals, ensuring that submissions reflect challenging but realistic forecasts with key assumptions benchmarked against internal/external best practice and supplemented with "what if" scenarios and potential risks, opportunities and trade-off's clearly defined and communicated.
• Work in partnership with the Commercial Performance & Planning ("CP&P team") & Group FP&A team, introducing and developing forward looking executive reports applicable to Workplace's Investments (capex / valuations / acquisitions & disposals), with insightful analysis, metrics and exception reports which support the Exco in making informed decisions and identify opportunities for improved financial performance and maximise value.
• Lead the bi-annual valuation process / external reporting for the Workplace business unit, ensuring timelines, deliverables and targets are clear, as well as working with the other FBP's, CP&P team to undertake analysis on the valuations to identify opportunities for further growth.
• Act as the primary strategic partner to the business leads, developing action plans on monthly results to drive improved financial performance and introducing clear and concise options for the business on capex, valuations, acquisitions & disposals and EPRA earnings.
• Clear focus on driving commercial performance for investments across the portfolio, proactively challenging the team to deliver improved results with a relentless drive for continuous improvement both for the business and personal performance.
• Drive standardisation of the investment appraisals and outputs presented for approval.
• Ensure compliance and robust controls environment is in place and that approval processes are adhered to by the BU.
• Primary financial lead for significant investment programmes across the portfolio, challenging the business to drive better returns and value for money.
• Primary financial lead for asset returns across the portfolio, leading the annual 5yr IRR review with the Strategy team and supporting the ExCo with further analysis and scenario modelling throughout the year to drive long-term performance.
• Undertake Post Investment Reviews of key investment decisions, coordinating the process across the relevant stakeholders and clearly outlining the key learnings, ensuring they are documented and implemented by action owners.
• Primary lead on support for potential future JV opportunities across investment and development assets.
• Support CP&P and Group FP&A team to ensure accuracy of data sources, reviewing outputs of both financial and non-financial data (e.g. project PC dates) and ensuring accountability from relevant business owners for updating where corrections are required.
• Support the development of the CP&P and Group FP&A analysts, ensuring they are building their commercial acumen and focusing on providing insight against the key deliverables within the business unit.

Behaviours:

Collaborative:

• Highly effective communication with business partners, ensuring that focus is maintained on financial KPI's and that variances to plan are well understood with action plans to drive further opportunities.
• Influence ExCo members and other business leaders through insightful reporting and analysis and clear communication of this focused on benefits to financial performance.
• Inspire other colleagues through engaging delivery of information and relentless drive for enhancements to processes and performance of the business unit

Learning mindset

• Take a curious approach, seeking to understand the business areas in minute detail in order to act as a subject matter expert within the wider business and focusing on challenging existing ways of working to enhance performance
• Take a forward-looking approach, focused on identifying future opportunities based on learnings from past performance, but minimising the time spent on historical reporting
• Take accountability for personal actions and performance, as well as for wider business performance, to ensure all decisions have the future financial goals of the organisation in mind.

Execute

• Focused on driving financial performance using data and past learnings to objectively inform decision making
• Persistent focus on improving performance from the business unit, helping to reach quick decisions alongside business partners in order to deliver great results at pace

Authentic

• Resilient in the face of challenges and adversity whilst demonstrating integrity and courage in decision-making
• Takes an inclusive approach which ensures others' views are heard and taken into account

Role Model

• Visible leader within the Workplace business unit and seen as a key strategic member of the team who supports and enables delivery of business objectives, whilst driving value and performance
• Supports the development and growth of peers across the organisation through coaching and financial upskilling

Essential Criteria

• Qualified Accountant
• Strong experience of Real Estate Valuations & Business Partnering
• Proven track record of budgeting and forecasting
• Highly effective communicator at Senior Leader / Exec levels
• Proactive 'can do' growth mindset

Life and Benefits at Landsec

We have a great benefits package, there to support you with your work-life balance and in moments that matter. We offer fantastic Learning and Development opportunities to help you grow and reach your potential and we also play our part in supporting the communities where we live and work.

• Performance based annual bonus plan
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) rising to 27 days after 2 years and the option to purchase up to 10 additional days each year. Enjoy an additional three-day December festive break on top of your leave and a special 'My Day' to take off for whatever you choose.
• Enhanced pension contributions - Landsec will contribute up to 10.5% subject to your contribution.
• Private medical insurance, Health Cash Plan, Life assurance and income protection.
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, shared parental leave policies (view our Family policies page for more details)

• Two different share plans enabling you to share in the success you will help to build
• Up to 4 working days to volunteer per year and 'Give As You Earn' programmes allowing you to donate to charities straight out of your pay and we top up by 20%

And when it comes to your health and wellbeing you will also have access to other benefits: our employee assistance programme, digital GP, cycle to work scheme, a mindfulness app and a health app supporting fertility and menopause

Diversity and Inclusion

At Landsec, we value diversity & inclusion. We work to better reflect the diversity of the communities we work within and empower everyone who works at Landsec to realise their potential.

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