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THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF SERENA’S VISION

Regeneration, Economy and Planning in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where innovative and open-minded people bring everything to the cause. Even expertise from surprising places.

Take Serena. She is an absolute force of nature at the heart of our Church Street regeneration. And she puts the residents first in everything. Serena’s vision is clear. Regeneration isn’t just about bricks and concrete. It’s about communities. It’s about the environment. It’s about the lives of people and how they feel about where they call home. Serena is their advocate, making sure residents’ voices aren’t just heard, but drive the changes we’re making. The future is safe in her hands.

Please view the extraordinary story of Serena’s Vision here.

The Role:

As a Development Finance Officer, you can make your own powerful contribution to the way in which we’re developing great residential options for our local community.

Joining the Regeneration and Development team, you’ll support a wide range of exciting projects in which your financial modelling and specialist commercial guidance will ensure their successful delivery. Developing dashboard templates which the team will rely on, you’ll gather market intelligence that will help us secure funding and investment support, and benchmark schemes and opportunities that are in the pipeline. This will mean working with a wide variety of colleagues including those from housing, property, development, finance and legal – so there will be plenty of variety in your day-to-day activities!

Monitoring business plans and acting as a bridge between the finance and development teams, you will help your colleagues with any governance needs, and you will ensure various scheme programmes are in-line with their intended targets in order to ensure the delivery of investment returns. This will include making recommendations on where cost efficiencies could be achieved, and sharing financial insight and analysis so that development colleagues can go even further in their work.

And while established projects will be a key part of your work, you will also have a great deal of involvement in potential development and regeneration opportunities. Helping sales and development colleagues understand the commercial and financial thresholds of potential avenues, your valuable insight will help them build business cases and appraise the opportunities that are worth pursuing.

This is a wonderful opportunity to help us make a significant social impact for the individuals who live here, plus those who are working in or visiting the area, so we will rely on your astute corporate forecasts to help us plan for the future. Collectively, our team are passionate about driving a culture of continuous improvement, so if you think there are ways in which we could improve how we’re doing things, then we’d love to hear your ideas.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

This is an exciting opportunity to delve into the world of real estate and residential development with the most prestigious Council in the UK. We want you to grow and excel in your career with us, so we’ll provide you with plenty of great opportunities to learn from our multidisciplinary team. To be equal to this challenge, you will therefore be a team-player who is excited about the chance to contribute to ambitious property developments.

With a background in the sector, it would be helpful if you have a professional qualification in Finance or Development, but your experience of contributing to development appraisals is more important. With exceptional strategic planning, financial modelling, budgeting, monitoring and project management skills, you’ll be adept at adapting your insight into accurate reports, recommendations and dashboards.

Comfortable working with senior-level colleagues and stakeholders, your analytical capabilities and financial acumen will be complemented by great communication and influencing skills. It goes without saying that you’ll be highly numerate, and you’ll enjoy translating complex scheme and financial data for a variety of audiences.

From a practical perspective, you will have well-developed skills in Microsoft Office and financial control software (such as SAP, YARDI or PAMWIN).

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' (formally known as B.A.M.E , Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.