Finance Manager - Estates and Capital Planning
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- Team:
- Head Office
- Location:
- United Kingdom
We’re looking for a commercially minded analyst with a passion for turning data into meaningful insight to join our Development & Estates Finance team. This is a high-impact role where you’ll help shape investment decisions across our property portfolio, providing the financial modelling, analysis and challenge that enables us to invest smarter and drive greater value.
With exposure to around £400m of Rent and Rates and £500m of capital budgets, you’ll work closely with Finance Business Partners and Property teams to strengthen financial planning, improve cost management and identify opportunities for savings and efficiencies. If you enjoy getting beneath the numbers, solving business problems and using insight to influence decisions, this is an opportunity to make a real impact.
What you'll be doing
- Deliver accurate, commercially focused reporting and insight, analysing performance against budget and forecast, understanding key variances and translating complex financial information into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders.
- Own key Estates and Capital reporting, including Rent, Rates, Insurance, Lease Interest and Depreciation, ensuring assumptions are robust, IFRS16 impacts are understood and longer-term projections are accurately reflected.
- Build strong partnerships across the business and with external providers, to provide constructive challenge, improve financial control and support better decision-making.
- Drive improvements in processes, reporting and efficiency, identifying opportunities to automate and standardise reporting, improve capital cash-flow visibility, strengthen the asset lifecycle process and track delivery of Everyday Efficiency savings.
Why you'll love it here
Bonus potential 20%
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Branded discounts up to 60% off hotel stays with Premier inn and Hub
Up to 10% matched pension
What you'll need
- A qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or ACA), with a degree-level education or equivalent relevant experience.
- Strong financial modelling and advanced Excel skills, with the ability to interpret large and complex data sets and turn them into clear, meaningful commercial insights.
- Experience of budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis, ideally gained within a multi-site, property, estates or similarly complex commercial environment.
- A good understanding of investment and accounting principles, with experience using financial analysis to evaluate opportunities and support business decisions.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to build strong relationships, influence decisions and constructively challenge.
Why join us?
What's Inn it for you?
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How to apply
How to apply
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1. Apply Online
Found a role you love? Great, just apply online! If you don’t already have a profile, you’ll create one as part of your application. If your application is successful, we’ll invite you to an interview by email with all the details you need
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2. Come to Your Interview
This is your chance to meet us and for us to meet the real you! Top tips: • What to wear: Smart-casual with comfy shoes (you may be on your feet). Be yourself, tattoos and piercings are welcome. • Before you arrive: Double-check your interview location, as we have several sites. • What to bring: Your right to work documents and National Insurance number. • Can’t make it? No problem, just let us know as early as possible and we’ll try to rearrange.
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3. Job Preview
For housekeeping or kitchen roles, you’ll spend around 30 minutes trying out the job on the day – so you can see what it’s really like. You’ll also have time to ask us any questions. We’ll let you know the outcome of your interview afterwards.
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4. Employment Checks
If you’re successful, we’ll complete the necessary employment checks. This includes verifying your Right to Work in the UK, which may happen at different stages depending on the role.
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5. Welcome to the Team!
Once everything is complete, it’s time to welcome you to the hotel team. We’ll guide you through your first steps and make sure you feel supported from day one.
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