Senior Commercial Finance Analyst

Purpose of Role

At The Crown Estate, our purpose is to create lasting and shared value for the country.

As a Senior Commercial Finance Analyst within our Rural, Coastal & Traditional portfolio, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality financial reporting, planning and analysis that supports strategic decision-making. You will transform complex financial and operational data into meaningful insight, helping stakeholders understand portfolio performance, identify opportunities and effectively manage risk.

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified finance professional looking to further develop their commercial finance career in a varied and highly visible role. Working closely with asset managers, managing agents and finance colleagues, you will take ownership of key reporting and forecasting processes while helping to drive continuous improvement across the function.

Context of Opportunity / Main Accountabilities

Reporting to the Commercial Finance Manager, you will support the financial performance and decision-making of the Rural, Coastal & Traditional business through accurate reporting, insightful analysis and strong stakeholder engagement.

Key responsibilities include:

• Owning the development and delivery of monthly management reporting, including variance analysis, commentary and portfolio performance reporting.

• Leading the annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes, working closely with managing agents and business stakeholders to consolidate submissions and provide meaningful analysis.

• Partnering with budget holders, asset managers and operational teams to understand performance, investigate variances and identify risks and opportunities.

• Taking ownership of month-end activities, including reviewing accruals, journals, coding accuracy and managing agent submissions.

• Maintaining and enhancing management information through advanced Excel models, Power BI reporting and self-service dashboards.

• Extracting, reconciling and analysing data from multiple finance, property and planning systems.

• Supporting commercial decision-making through financial analysis, business cases, scenario modelling and investment appraisal activities.

• Managing capital expenditure reporting, project tracking and financial performance monitoring.

• Building strong relationships with managing agents and internal stakeholders, providing challenge and support where appropriate.

• Identifying and implementing process improvements, standardisation opportunities and automation initiatives across reporting and forecasting activities.

• Producing clear, concise and actionable financial insights for both finance and non-finance audiences.

Most Important Skills Based Requirements

We are looking for a commercially minded and analytically strong finance professional who can work independently, build effective stakeholder relationships and deliver high-quality outputs in a fast-paced environment.

Essential experience and skills include:

• A recognised professional accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA.

• Approximately four to five years' relevant experience within commercial finance, FP&A, management accounting, audit or a related finance environment.

• Strong knowledge of management accounting principles, including budgeting, forecasting, month-end processes and variance analysis.

• Experience owning and delivering recurring finance processes and reporting cycles.

• Advanced Excel skills, including financial modelling, complex formulas, lookups and pivot tables.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with the ability to interpret complex data and identify key business insights.

• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver to demanding deadlines.

• The ability to communicate financial information clearly and effectively to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.

• Strong stakeholder management skills and the confidence to challenge constructively where appropriate.

• A proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement, automation and process enhancement.

Desirable experience includes:

• Experience within property, asset management, real estate or another multi-site operational environment.

• Experience working with managing agents or third-party service providers.

• Knowledge of Power BI, Power Query, Anaplan, Agresso/Unit4 or property management systems.

• Experience developing dashboards, improving controls and driving automation initiatives.

Join The Crown Estate and help shape the financial performance of one of the UK's most diverse property portfolios through insightful analysis, strong commercial partnering and continuous improvement.

Our Offering / benefits:

As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.

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We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.

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Please note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this advert early. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.