Director of Planning and Analysis

Duration: Permanent

Reporting Line: CFO

Company

They are one of the leading real estate companies in Europe focusing on the ownership and management of modern logistics and distribution properties. They currently own and operate over 13 million square metres of space, and manage a further 5 million square meters, in key locations across the European supply chain. They are headquartered in London and Luxembourg, with regional offices in France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Romania, Hungary, Finland, and Sweden.

Role Overview

They are seeking a Director of Planning and Analysis with proven leadership capabilities to join their Finance Team based in London.

Main Responsibilities:

1. Articulate performance and plans through high quality financial reports and business plans
   • Ownership and production of professional shareholder communications materials
   • Support Treasury with debt investor information and communications
2. Perform in‐depth analysis of results and plans including NOI, capex, G&A and building analytical tools for use on an ongoing basis, including current and past trends in key performance indicators, to enable reporting on an aggregated basis with respect to past, current and future performance
3. In close collaboration with the FP&A and reporting teams (responsible for the NOI GAAP/IFRS reporting) compile the quarterly board book
4. Work with Portfolio Management Team to create and embed strong commercial and market knowledge and describe market trends
5. Bring together output from Portfolio Management (asset plans) and Treasury (funding plans) to work with CEO / CFO in strategy development
6. Create a firm understanding of all systems which are used to manage and track the portfolio’s performance (Horizon, Tableau, Anaplan etc) and optimise them as well as the interaction they have with one another where possible
7. Create new business insights by combining new and existing data/information and share them with the various shareholders through dashboards, presentations and reports
8. Ad‐Hoc Reporting and Analysis

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in English: able to clearly convey analytical findings
• Relevant experience with focus on real estate preferably within private equity or asset management
• Excellent modelling and quantitative analytical skills, including organising data to reveal insights
• Ability to think creatively, highly driven and self‐motivated
• Team player who can build strong relationships across all areas of the organization

Leadership Capabilities: REACH

 Results

• Drive to keep on track and to deliver
• Flexible to work with changing demands

Excellence

• Add value through insightful analysis, balancing appropriately the big picture and component detail
• Understand and be able to clearly explain what is happening in the business
• Drive change in behaviours and processes across the organisation including outside of own functional area

As one

• Collaborate and build a network with all parts of the business to support the whole organisation in achieving its objectives
• Be a source of positive, energetic leadership
• Have real ownership of the delivery of objectives

Customers

• Clear communications with all stakeholders, inside and outside of the business
• Deliver high quality output consistently to tight timetables across multiple work streams simultaneously by achieving success through others

Honesty

• Empower and develop capabilities of the team