Description
Company: Global Investment Bank
Position: Real Estate Finance Business Partner
Key Responsibilities:
Lease Accounting & Cost Management
- Ensure accurate accounting for lease costs, including reconciliation of service charges and CPI increases.
- Manage timely rent payments, liaising with landlords and resolving any queries.
- Monitor and report on real estate financial performance, ensuring alignment with lease agreements.
Budgeting, Forecasting & Financial Reporting
- Support budgeting and forecasting processes for real estate and facilities costs.
- Prepare and analyze month-end accruals, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
- Provide financial insights to senior stakeholders to support decision-making.
Project & Procurement Management
- Oversee the raising and monitoring of purchase orders (POs), goods receiving POs, and payment approvals.
- Work closely with project teams, quantity surveyors, and project managers to monitor project budgets against actuals.
- Identify and mitigate risks of project overspending, ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery.
Stakeholder Engagement & Business Partnering
- Act as a liaison between Finance, Real Estate, Facilities, and Corporate Services.
- Partner with non-finance teams, ensuring financial insights are clearly communicated and understood.
- Build strong relationships with landlords, subcontractors, and internal stakeholders to optimize financial operations.
Key Requirements:
Qualifications & Experience
- Final-stage or fully qualified CIMA, ACCA or ACA accountant.
- Strong experience in real estate finance, facilities management or corporate services finance.
- Commercial awareness of the real estate sector (banking experience is a plus but not essential).
Skills & Attributes
- Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to reconcile complex financial data.
- Highly proficient in Excel (macros not required but strong financial modeling and analysis skills needed).
- Deadline-driven results-oriented; able to perform under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills; particularly in working with non-finance teams.
- A proactive hands-on approach; passion for understanding how corporate services functions within a bank.
- Knowledge of Tririga PeopleSoft Qlik Sense would be beneficial.
Why Join Us?
This is a high-impact role within a fast-growing global organization. You will gain hands-on experience across all aspects of real estate finance work closely with senior stakeholders play a crucial part in ensuring financial efficiency in our corporate real estate operations. If you’re looking for a fast-paced commercially focused role where you can make a real difference we’d love to hear from you.
Reporting To: Real Estate Financial Controller
Location: London