Finance Business Partner - Storey & Shopping Centres

Career Opportunities:
Finance Business Partner - Storey & Shopping Centres (10983)

Requisition  
10983 - Posted
- Finance
- London

LOCATION: MARBLE ARCH, LONDON (Hybrid – 4 days in office)

REPORTING TO: BUSINESS PARTNER MANAGER

TYPE OF

CONTRACT:

PERMANENT

The role provides an exciting opportunity for someone wishing to work alongside senior management and work on a wide variety of tasks and projects. Candidates should be customer‑oriented with good stakeholder management and take a proactive approach to work tasks.

• 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 1 and 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 budget in the context of the overall corporate budget
• Responsible for quarterly reforecasting process for the 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
• Prepare and 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 updates for the Quarterly Performance Review
• Support Real Estate teams in annual asset business plan process
• 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
• 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 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

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, CIMA) with post qualified experience
• Interpersonal and able to build strong working relationships across numerous teams and levels of seniority
• Able to communicate financial concepts and implications to non-finance professionals
• Self‑sufficient and able to manage a portfolio of responsibilities, prioritise and meet tight deadlines
• Logical approach to problem solving with ability to interpret financial impact of commercial decisions
• Comfortable with getting into the detail as well as understanding the big picture
• Comfortable dealing with and manipulating data from different sources
• Eagerness to continually improve
• Relevant experience in Business Partnering or Financial Analysis
• Experience working in real estate and knowledge of property specific accounting treatments
• Experience of using Anaplan software