Commercial Finance Lead

About the job
A newly created Commercial Finance Lead role, with genuine influence over commercial reporting, insights and strategy across a diversified portfolio. You'll work closely with senior leadership and business unit heads, with real input into how the business understands and improves its performance.

About the company
A privately-owned property group with a substantial portfolio and complementary business interests, generating strong, consistent income. Being privately owned means less bureaucracy and faster decision-making when something needs to happen, it happens, without layers of sign-off slowing things down.

What you'll do

• Take ownership of budgeting, forecasting and commercial reporting across a multi-entity portfolio, and find better ways to deliver it
• Work alongside business unit leaders to unpack what's driving performance, test their thinking, and help steer decisions across the group
• Bring a strategic lens to P&L performance, surfacing risk and opportunity through scenario planning and sensitivity work
• Contribute to how the group's assets are valued, including analysis that supports banking and funding conversations
• Get involved in treasury matters, including debt facilities and the reporting that comes with them
• Help inform how the group thinks about capital allocation and funding, including the modelling that sits behind those decisions
• Strengthen the group's forecasting and budgeting muscle so it can keep pace with a growing, multi-faceted business
• Champion smarter ways of working, including practical use of AI to sharpen reporting and insight
• Jump into ad hoc projects and analysis as business priorities evolve

About you

• CA/CPA qualified, with 10+ years' relevant experience
• Background in listed or private property businesses is essential
• Strong FP&A experience, ideally gained across a diversified or multi-entity structure
• Comfortable getting into the weeds of a P&L to explain the real story behind the numbers
• Has led and developed people before
• Confident engaging with senior stakeholders and owners

What's on offer

• Direct pathway to senior leadership
• High visibility with business owners
• A newly created role you can shape from day one
• No red tape — real autonomy and trust to make decisions

To apply, submit your CV via the link below, or contact Yolande Maritz at [axr]