Senior Finance Business Manager

The Role

The private equity firm is seeking an experienced Senior Manager – Business Planning to join its Finance team. This is a senior individual contributor and leadership role responsible for driving financial feasibility analysis, portfolio-level business planning, and investment decision support across a large-scale real estate development portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development, review, and approval of detailed financial feasibility studies for individual real estate development projects.
• Work closely with Development, Sales, Budgeting, and other key stakeholders to define, validate, and document all financial, commercial, and market assumptions.
• Ensure business plans and feasibility models are fully aligned with Group benchmarks, governance requirements, and best practices.
• Consolidate individual project feasibility studies into portfolio-level financial models to assess funding requirements, identify financing gaps, and evaluate viable financing structures.
• Prepare high-quality investment papers, Board submissions, and management presentations, clearly articulating assumptions, sensitivities, risks, and value drivers.
• Support senior management and Investment Committees by presenting analyses and defending assumptions and recommendations.
• Work with lenders and financial institutions to deliver bankable financial models, including the modelling of all relevant financial covenants.
• Perform ongoing covenant testing and compliance monitoring on a monthly basis using actual results and updated forecasts.
• Coordinate with the Budgeting and Forecasting team to ensure alignment between approved business plans, annual budgets, and rolling forecasts.
• Lead the implementation and effective use of the Oracle Feasibility Module, ensuring data accuracy, standardisation of assumptions, and consistent application across all projects.
• Continuously review and enhance financial modelling methodologies and planning processes to support informed decision-making.
  
  

Skills & Experience

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience, with strong exposure to real estate development, investment analysis, or corporate planning.
• At least 8 years of hands-on experience with financial modelling and feasibility studies.
• Proven track record developing complex financial models and feasibility studies for large-scale development projects.
• Experience preparing and presenting investment cases to senior management and governance committees.
• Experience working with lenders and external financial stakeholders is highly desirable.
• Bachelor\'s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, or a related field.
• Professional certifications in financial modelling are preferred; CFA or valuation-related qualifications are an advantage.
• Advanced Excel financial modelling skills and strong presentation capability.
• Competencies across financial feasibility and investment analysis, portfolio and capital planning, strategic thinking, stakeholder management, and executive communication.
  
  

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