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About the Role
This role leads strategic business partnering for the Head of Investments, integral to Landsec’s investment activity with a primary focus on acquisitions and disposals. It plays a pivotal part in delivering the Group’s capital recycling strategy and enhancing portfolio performance through disciplined capital allocation.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic planning and decision support to the Head of Investments, delivering financial insights and robust challenge.
- Lead budgeting and forecasting processes for Workplace’s operational capex, valuations, and acquisitions & disposals.
- Develop forward-looking executive reports for Workplace’s Investments with insightful analysis and metrics.
- Lead the bi-annual valuation process and external reporting for the Workplace business unit.
- Act as the primary strategic partner to business leads, developing action plans on monthly results.
- Drive commercial performance for investments across the portfolio.
- Drive standardization of investment appraisals and outputs presented for approval.
- Ensure compliance and a robust controls environment is in place.
- Serve as the primary financial lead for significant investment programmes and asset returns across the portfolio.
- Undertake Post Investment Reviews of key investment decisions.
- Act as the primary lead on support for potential future JV opportunities.
- Support CP&P and Group FP&A teams to ensure accuracy of data sources and review outputs.
- Support the development of CP&P and Group FP&A analysts, ensuring they build commercial acumen.
Requirements
- 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
Skills
- Financial insights
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Valuations
- Acquisitions & disposals
- Capital allocation
- Investment appraisals
- Financial analysis
- Performance management
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Analytical skills
- Accountability
- Continuous improvement
- Commercial acumen
Location
- Victoria, London
Work Type
- Hybrid working (Minimum 3 days in the office)
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Qualified Accountant
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive
Benefits
- Performance based annual bonus plan
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) rising to 27 days after 2 years
- Option to purchase up to 10 additional days each year
- Three-day December festive break
- ‘My Day’ for personal use
- Enhanced pension contributions (up to 10.5%)
- Private medical insurance
- Health Cash Plan
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Enhanced maternity, adoption, shared parental leave policies
- Two different share plans
- Up to 4 working days to volunteer per year
- 'Give As You Earn' programmes with 20% top-up
- Employee assistance programme
- Digital GP
- Cycle to work scheme
- Mindfulness app
- Health app supporting fertility and menopause
About the Company
- Landsec identifies and shapes places that create opportunity, enhance quality of life, and bring joy to the people connected to them.
- Owns the UK’s leading portfolio of urban places and is one of the largest real estate companies in Europe.
- Has a £10 billion portfolio built around premium workplaces, the country’s pre-eminent retail platform, and a residential pipeline.
- Has 80 years of experience in spotting opportunities, building partnerships, and adapting to shape places.
- Creates places where life happens, businesses grow, and cities are defined.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, disability, gender identity and gender expression, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy and/or parental status, ethnicity, race, nationality, citizenship, cultural background, socio-economic background, religion or belief.