Finance Project Manager (Real Estate)

Sector: Real Estate

Project Finance Manager

Responsibilities

• **Budgeting:**
• Translate approved feasibility into detailed project budgets and track performance against key assumptions
• **Monitoring:**
• Monitor margins, cost-to-complete, spend, revenue forecasts, and overall financial health of projects
• **Reporting:**
• Prepare monthly project review reports, variance analysis, and performance updates
• **Cash Flow:**
• Maintain project cash flow forecasts and highlight funding gaps or risks
• **Operations:**
• Work closely with AR, AP, and GL teams to ensure accurate postings, reconciliations, payments, and collections
• **Controls:**
• Support approvals for PRs, POs, contracts, and variations while ensuring compliance with internal policies
• **Stakeholder Management:**
• Partner with Development, Planning, Corporate Finance, Sales, Legal, Treasury, and Project teams on financial matters
• **Governance:**
• Support audits, forecasts, management reporting, and project dashboards
• **Systems:**
• Use ERP systems to extract, validate, and monitor project financial data

Requirements

• **Education:**
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
• **Qualification:**
• CPA or CMA is preferred
• **Experience:**
• 8+ years of finance experience
• **Sector:**
• Real estate development or off-plan project experience is a plus
• **Technical:**
• Strong understanding of project financials, budgeting, and feasibility analysis
• **Systems:**
• ERP experience required; Oracle Fusion preferred
• **Tools:**
• Strong Excel and financial analysis skills

Key Skills

• **Analysis:**
• Strong financial analysis and problem-solving skills
• **Reporting:**
• Strong presentation, reporting, and variance analysis capability
• **Stakeholders:**
• Strong cross-functional coordination and stakeholder management
• **Communication:**
• Able to engage confidently with senior management
• **Execution:**
• Structured, organized, and able to manage deadlines
• **Ownership:**
• Strong leadership and accountability mindset