Job advert closes 17th February 2026

Are you ready to use your financial modelling expertise and development appraisal experience to shape the financial thinking behind some of our most complex Urban development projects? In this role, you’ll be a key financial advisor across both single‑phase and multi‑phase schemes,  providing insightful analysis, guiding commercial decisions and helping the business understand performance, opportunity and risk.

You’ll collaborate closely with development teams, lead meaningful financial assessments and ensure each project is underpinned by robust appraisals and clear, reliable insight. This is a role where your modelling, analysis and partnering skills all come together to make a tangible difference.

What you’ll be doing

You will play a key role in shaping the financial thinking behind our development pipeline, including:

• Lead financial assessments for major development propositions, providing high‑quality, commercially insightful analysis across both single‑phase and multi‑phase development opportunities.

• Partner closely with development teams, offering financial expertise, constructive challenge and clear, accessible insight that helps shape decisions at every stage of the project lifecycle.

• Build and enhance complex financial models, helping us innovate and improve our modelling capability and approach across the business. Create robust scenario analysis, bringing clarity to performance drivers, risks, and opportunities, ensuring consistency and strategic alignment across all appraisals.

• Support long‑term business planning and forecasting, becoming a go‑to person for development financials and capital expenditure.

• Craft board‑ready papers and presentations, translating complex financial information into compelling, digestible recommendations for senior leaders.

• Champion good governance, ensuring financial controls, ERP usage and reporting processes remain reliable, accessible and continuously improving.

What Skills and Experience you’ll bring

We’re interested in hearing from people who can offer:

• Development Appraisal Experience- Experience preparing development appraisals, ideally multi‑phase, to support evaluation, decision‑making and performance understanding.

• Financial Modelling Capability- Confidence building, reviewing and enhancing financial models that support project viability and scenario planning.

• Excel Proficiency- Comfortable working with complex spreadsheets and using Excel as a core analytical tool.

• Business Partnering- Able to work collaboratively with development teams, offering clear, grounded financial insight that supports project delivery.

• ERP Systems Confidence- Willingness to use and learn evolving ERP systems for planning, forecasting and reporting, applying sound judgement as the tools develop.

• Relevant Qualifications- Qualifications such as RICS, CIMA, ACA, ACCA (or equivalent), with post‑qualification experience.

• Sharing Information Effectively- Comfortable explaining financial concepts in a way that builds understanding across different teams and levels.

• Collaborative Approach- Enjoy working across teams and functions, contributing to a supportive, open and joined‑up working environment.

• Attention to Detail & Prioritisation-Comfortable working with detail while managing deadlines and multiple priorities.

• Familiarity With Valuation Tools- Helpful experience using software such as Argus or Project not essential

Why join us?

You’ll join a collaborative development finance team working on high‑profile, ambitious projects with real impact across the Urban portfolio. This is a place to grow your modelling expertise, influence how we appraise developments and contribute insights that shape senior decision‑making. If you want your analysis to matter and your ideas to be heard, this is an exciting opportunity to step in and make your mark.

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.

Disability Disclaimer:

We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

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.

If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us on careers@thecrownestate.co.uk