THE COMPANY

They are a specialist REIT, focused on Central London office development and investment, and listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Their current portfolio includes multiple "best-in-class" newly developed or refurbished assets located in Central London with a combined value of c. £1bn+, and as the company enters a growth phase, it will be actively seeking to acquire new assets to grow the portfolio in the short to medium term. To enable the planned growth they are seeking a Financial Analyst to work with both the Property and Finance team across various operations in the business. You will report to the Senior Property Executive and the COO.

Day-to-day responsibilities will be preparing internal and external monthly/quarterly reporting, feasibility studies, identifying asset management opportunities, extensive modelling property level and group cash flows and creating investment and business plans.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS REQUIRED

  • Qualified ACA - Essential

  • 3 to 5 years' relevant experience within a commercial real estate focused environment or corporate finance experience from an accounting - Essential

  • Excellent Excel skills with experience in modelling - Essential

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Transactions

  • Modelling of new acquisitions and/or disposals, and supporting information to develop business plans

  • Preparation of post transaction deal summaries monitoring actual performance against business plans

  • Development and execution of promote arrangements to be incorporated within legal agreements and calculation of complex cash waterfalls

  • Opportunity to undertake property inspections and feed into decision making processes regarding portfolio.

Existing Portfolio

  • Maintenance of property-specific models throughout the investment lifecycle to provide real time data to the stakeholders and investors.

  • Preparation of year-end analytics to support financial reporting and presentations.

  • Bespoke scenario planning for assets, including lease event scenario planning.

  • Responsibility for the maintenance of the development project budgets and JV/bank reporting requirements alongside the project team.

  • Analysis and reporting of rent collection statistics for the Group

Group

  • Develop and maintain of the Group's long term cash flow forecast.

  • Assist with the group's half yearly external valuation processes.

  • Prepare and submit Group data to external benchmark indices

  • Assistance in responding to external analyst queries and reviewing analyst forecasts

Finance

  • Assistance in preparation of bank covenants and future covenant compliance modelling.

  • Assistance on arranging debt facilities and modelling scenarios.