Senior Manager - Financial Management

Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation, consolidation, and periodic update of project and development budgets ensuring alignment with approved business cases, stage gate approvals, and governance requirements.
• Monitor and control budget utilisation across development projects, identifying risks, variances, and emerging cost pressures, and proactively recommending corrective actions.
• Own periodic forecasting – quarterly and monthly outlooks – coordinating inputs from Development, Cost Controls, and Finance to ensure forecasts are realistic, evidence‑based, and decision‑ready.
• Implement and enforce budget checks and financial validations for procurement activities, including commitment control, purchase requisitions, contract awards, and variations, ensuring spend remains within approved limits.
• Act as a primary financial interface between Development and Finance, ensuring alignment on budgets, forecasts, accruals, capitalisation principles, and financial interpretations.
• Ensure work‑performed reporting from development and cost control systems is fully reconciled with SAP financials, addressing timing differences, accruals, and classification issues to maintain a single trusted version of financial truth.
• Review and challenge cost reporting, progress measurement, and financial assumptions, ensuring that reported performance accurately reflects underlying commercial and financial reality.
• Provide clear financial insights and commentary to senior management, supporting informed decision‑making on project performance, risks, and forward outlook.
• Lead and contribute to ad hoc financial analysis as required, including deep dives on variances, scenario analysis, what‑if assessments, budget optimisation exercises, and management requests.
• Support continuous improvement of financial management processes, controls, and reporting frameworks, strengthening governance, transparency, and audit readiness across the development lifecycle.
• Collaborate closely with Cost Controls, Procurement, FP amp A, and Project Teams to ensure consistent application of financial policies, controls, and reporting standards.

• Strong background with a real‑estate developer, master developer, or large capital development organization, with hands‑on experience in Development Finance, Project Finance, or Corporate / Commercial Finance.
• Practical exposure to managing development budgets, forecasts, and financial controls across complex, multi‑project environments, ideally spanning planning through execution phases of the development lifecycle.
• Strong ability to work at the interface of Development and Finance, translating development activities, cost drivers, and progress into robust financial reporting and controls.
• Experience aligning management reporting with ERP financial systems, supporting governance and capital approval processes, and operating within large, matrixed organizations.
• Exposure to major development or giga‑project environments is considered an advantage.