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About the Role

This role is integral to Landsec’s investment activity, with a primary focus on acquisitions and disposals, and plays a pivotal part in delivering the Group’s capital recycling strategy. Acting as the finance business partner to the Head of Investments, the role is responsible for managing performance and shaping financial plans for Workplace Investments, working across the portfolio to enhance performance through a disciplined capital allocation lens.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic planning and decision support to the Head of Investments, delivering financial insights to guide long term goals and strategies focusing on investments.
Lead the budgeting and forecasting processes for Workplace’s operational capex, valuations and acquisitions & disposals.
Work in partnership with the Commercial Performance & Planning team & Group FP&A team, introducing and developing forward looking executive reports applicable to Workplace’s Investments.
Lead the bi-annual valuation process / external reporting for the Workplace business unit.
Act as the primary strategic partner to the business leads, developing action plans on monthly results to drive improved financial performance.
Drive standardisation of the investment appraisals and outputs presented for approval.
Ensure compliance and robust controls environment is in place and that approval processes are adhered to by the BU.
Primary financial lead for significant investment programmes across the portfolio.
Primary financial lead for asset returns across the portfolio, leading the annual 5yr IRR review with the Strategy team.
Undertake Post Investment Reviews of key investment decisions, coordinating the process across the relevant stakeholders.
Primary lead on support for potential future JV opportunities across investment and development assets.
Support CP&P and Group FP&A team to ensure accuracy of data sources, reviewing outputs of both financial and non-financial data.
Support the development of the CP&P and Group FP&A analysts, ensuring they are building their 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
Benchmarking
Budgeting
Forecasting
Scenario modelling
Executive reporting
Financial analysis
Valuation
Investment appraisal
Controls environment
IRR review
Post Investment Reviews
JV opportunities
Data accuracy
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.
We have created the UK’s leading portfolio of urban places and one of the largest real estate companies in Europe.
Our £10 billion portfolio is built around premium workplaces, the country’s pre-eminent retail platform, and a residential pipeline that will redefine urban life.
We’ve honed this ability over 80 years. Spotting the opportunities, building the partnerships, and continually adapting to shape the places that meet the needs of a changing world.

Equal Opportunity

At Landsec, we value diversity & inclusion.
We work to better reflect the diversity of the communities we work within and empower everyone who works at Landsec to realise their potential.
We strive to ensure all our information, and services are accessible to and usable by everyone.
If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, please get in touch with our recruitment partners by emailing recruitmentqueries@landsec.com