Job description

Overview Of The Role:

The Financial Controller, FP&A plays a key role in strengthening financial planning, performance management, and management reporting across the Real Estate Group, providing a consolidated regional view of business performance. The role partners closely with senior leadership, leveraging strong commercial acumen, macroeconomic insights, and real estate market knowledge to drive forward-looking analysis, forecasting, and strategic decision-making.

A key focus is transforming FP&A through AI, automation, and advanced analytics, enhancing the quality, efficiency, and predictive value of financial planning and reporting. The successful candidate will bring a strong executive presence, excellent presentation skills, intellectual curiosity, and a proactive ownership mindset to generate actionable insights, improve financial visibility, and foster accountability across the organization.

What You Will Do:

FP&A Leadership

• Act as the central point of contact for FP&A activities across the Real Estate Group and relevant Group Finance requirements.
• Build trusted relationships across Finance and the business, using influence and appropriate escalation to drive alignment and timely delivery.
• Support the Head Of Finance in establishing strategic priorities and converting them into implementation plans.

Budgeting, Forecasting and Strategic Planning

• Lead and review individual and consolidated budgets, forecasts, and business plans across portfolios and geographies.
• Manage the end-to-end cycle, including timelines, templates, assumptions, and reviews.
• Challenge financial and operational assumptions with commercial knowledge and market intelligence.
• Utilize scenario, sensitivity, and predictive analysis to present potential outcomes and management responses.

Performance Management and Insight

• Lead monthly reviews of financial and operational performance against budget, ensuring variances are explained.
• Shift performance review focus from historical to predictive using rolling forecasts and leading indicators.
• Define and enhance relevant KPIs and leading indicators for each asset class.
• Assess macroeconomic and industry factors impacting performance and translate analysis into recommendations.

Senior Leadership Reporting

• Review Flash reports and commentaries, explaining events and requirements for future action.
• Prepare and present monthly financial performance decks to the Group CFO and senior leadership.
• Support various presentations, ensuring actions from reviews are addressed.
• Respond to urgent requests with appropriate judgement and coordination.

FP&A Transformation and Technology

• Champion the evolution of FP&A to a data-driven, insight-led function leveraging AI-powered tools.
• Identify opportunities for automation and advanced analytics in planning and reporting.
• Standardise templates, dashboards, and processes across portfolios.
• Promote adoption of new tools while ensuring data quality and governance.

Governance and Performance Measurement

• Ensure reporting and KPI frameworks are simple, measurable, and auditable.
• Act as contact for Group requirements, maintaining reporting quality and consistency.
• Coordinate responses to queries from Group Finance and other governance stakeholders.

Skills

Required Skills To Be Successful:

• Executive-level communication and presentation skills.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills; competency with data visualization and planning tools.
• Strong commercial acumen and financial modeling capability.
• Ability to interpret macroeconomic and real estate industry trends into financial implications.

What Qualifies You For The Role:

• Professional Accounting/Finance qualification (CA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent); CFA or MBA is advantageous.
• Minimum of 12 years of relevant Finance experience, with at least 4 years in FP&A or a related function.
• Experience in Real Estate, Construction, Asset Management, or project-based industries strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to present financial results and recommendations to senior executives and manage complex stakeholder deliverables.