Director, FP&A

Location

London - One Canada Square, Level 25

Business - Real Estate

Brookfield Real Estate Group is one of Brookfield’s primary operating groups. The Real Estate Group is one of the world's largest investors in real estate, with a global portfolio that includes office, retail, multifamily, logistics, hospitality and alternative real estate assets on five continents. The Group owns and operates approximately $268 billion of assets representing the most iconic properties in the world’s most dynamic markets. We seek to generate value by leveraging our operating expertise and focusing on our core real estate capabilities of leasing, financing, development, design and construction as well as property and facilities management. For more information, visit https://www.brookfield.com/our-businesses/real-estate.

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Job Description

Role Overview

We are looking for a Director of Financial Planning & Analysis (“FP&A”) to lead the review and analysis of performance reporting, valuations, and business plans across the European platform, which comprises all real estate asset classes including office, hospitality, retail, residential, and life sciences.

Reporting to the European head of FP&A and Investor Relations, the Director of FP&A will be influential in ensuring the portfolio companies are successfully able to carry out the valuation and private fund reporting needs of Brookfield. The candidate will build relationships with internal business partners, portfolio company finance teams, and the group FP&A team in New York, and be a student of the businesses. The individual will ensure deliverables from the portfolio companies are of a high standard before presenting to senior leadership.

Responsibilities include:

• Consolidate platform performance key metrics and assumptions to communicate a holistic view of the European real estate platform; understand sector and regional trends, and prepare analyses for relevant senior stakeholders

• Serve as the key contact for the New York finance team, able to assist with ad-hoc queries, consulting appropriately with specialists in the wider team 

• Support Investor Relations and Fundraising teams on quantitative and complex investor requests to advance fundraising initiatives; preparation of quarterly quantitative deliverables to investors

• Collaborate with various internal and external parties including business partners, portfolio company finance teams, and portfolio management to provide oversight of private fund investment valuations on a quarterly basis

• Assist with the creation and on-going assessment of portfolio valuations, ensuring consistency with other Brookfield investments and industry standards

• Understand commercial business drivers for quarterly results through interaction with the business partners, portfolio companies and portfolio managers

• Leverage knowledge of investment business plans to review and challenge projection assumptions, analyze  value appreciation and return drivers and communicate strategic initiatives on a quarterly basis

• Assist in onboarding new portfolio companies and work with the teams to complete initial reporting requirements

• Communicate liquidity needs of portfolio companies with New York based team to ensure funding is in-place when required

• Prepare specific analysis and special projects as required

Key Competencies:

• Experience of FP&A within a matrix organisation

• Demonstrates understanding of financial models to analyze various valuation methodologies and asset management model key assumptions

• Experience in understanding complex transactions (acquisitions, dispositions, or debt financings)

• Commercially focussed finance individual with excellent stakeholder skills, comfortable communicating to senior Brookfield and portfolio company finance leadership, auditors, legal, and tax teams

• Clear and concise communicator – make the complex simple to understand

• Ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously and meet deadlines and goals, whilst working in a dynamic and fast paced multi-jurisdictional environment

• Willingness and capability to take ownership of processes/deliverables

• Self-starter and independent thinker who acts creatively to problem solve and propose solutions

• Superior organization skills with great attention to detail

Key Requirements

• Experience working with private fund structures preferred

• Real Estate or other tangible asset sector experience preferred

• Achieved 2.1 in any degree discipline

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA) or equivalent with 6+ years PQE

• Strong Excel skills and proficient in PowerPoint

Brookfield is committed to maintaining a Positive Work Environment that is safe and respectful; our shared success depends on it.  Accordingly, we do not tolerate workplace discrimination, violence or harassment.

We are proud to create a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are grateful for your interest in this position, however, only candidates selected for pre-screening will be contacted.