Finance Business Partner - Manager

Brookfield is looking for a Finance Manager to support the team's reporting and FP&A processes, future acquisitions and dispositions, onboarding and business partner our portfolio. The Finance Manager will serve as a key point of contact to Brookfield's office portfolio companies, ensuring successful delivery of the reporting and FP&A needs of Brookfield. The candidate will manage the relationship with their portfolio companies and be a student of the businesses they are responsible for. They will take end-to-end ownership of business planning, reforecasting, quarterly results and valuations. The individual will ensure deliverables from the portfolio company are of a high standard for various business stakeholders. Responsibilities for this position include the following:

• Business partnering with Brookfield's real estate portfolio companies.
• Assess and communicate trends in the quarterly financial reporting relative to historic results, forecasts, business plans and commercial / market events
• Assist with the creation and on-going assessment of portfolio valuations, ensuring consistency with other Brookfield investments and industry standards
• Understand commercial business drivers for results and valuations through interaction with the finance teams and portfolio managers
• Key individual in the annual business planning process, ensuring robust understanding and challenge of assumptions, providing advice on required accounting adjustments
• Managing funding needs for our Portfolio Companies whilst complying with Brookfield's established processes
• Establish a strong working relationship with portfolio company finance teams to align with Brookfield processes and requirements
  
  Commercially focused finance individual with excellent stakeholder skills, comfortable communicating to Brookfield and portfolio company finance leadership, legal teams and tax advisers
• Knowledge of accounting to be able to assist in preparation of reporting packs under IFRS, identify issues, and follow guidance, and consult internally
• Experience working through complex transactions (acquisitions, dispositions, or debt financings)
• Experience of FP&A within a matrix organisation
• Ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously and meet deadlines and goals, whilst working in a dynamic and fast paced environment
• Competent knowledge of fair value accounting to be able to assist in review of financial results including under IFRS, identify issues, and follow guidance, and consult internally
• Self-starter and independent thinker who acts creatively to problem solve
• Clear and concise communicator - make the complex simple to understand
• Additional European language would be favourable, but not a necessity
Key Requirements
• Achieved 2.1 in any degree discipline
• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA) or equivalent with 4+ years PQE
• Strong Excel skills and proficient in PowerPoint
  
  At Brookfield Properties, the foundation of our success is firmly rooted in our people.
Our company is comprised of experts across a range of specialties who share a goal of ensuring our properties are continuously evolving to meet the needs of our communities and stakeholders. To meet this goal, we hire visionary, entrepreneurial talent who help us innovate and enhance our business. We build collaborative teams who value integrity, creativity and diversity. Our teams operate an iconic portfolio of irreplaceable properties within the world's most dynamic markets. As one of the largest real estate services companies, we provide management and development expertise exclusively for properties owned by Brookfield Asset Management., At Brookfield Properties, our success starts with our people. People like you. We develop, operate, and manage more than 1100 properties and 390 million square feet of real estate across the globe. It's a feat that wouldn't be possible without our team, a diverse group of creative visionaries and innovative experts who are relentless in pursuit of one goal: to ensure our buildings don't simply meet the needs of our tenants, residents, and communities - but exceed them, every day.