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Job Description
What’s in it for you?
We're looking for a Finance Manager to join our Real Estate Finance Team, overseeing financial operations across property lending products and funds in retirement living, care homes, and affordable housing. You’ll lead a team of four, ensure strong financial controls, and drive continuous improvement in a hands-on, collaborative environment.
About the Team
Part of the Finance Centre of Expertise, our Real Estate Finance Team works closely with Property Lending and Investment teams, managing financial oversight across retail and institutional property funds.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Reporting & Control
- Lead monthly and quarterly reporting, audits, and FCA submissions
- Monitor loan performance and manage bad debt oversight
- Ensure compliance with debt covenants and financial regulations
- Maintain and improve financial controls and procedures
Team Leadership
- Manage and develop a team of four
- Foster a culture of accountability and growth
- Contribute to the Finance Leadership Group
Stakeholder Relationships
- Collaborate with internal teams and external partners including auditors, fund administrators, and lenders
- Build strong cross-functional relationships within finance
Projects
- Lead implementation of a new loan management system (launching 2026)
- Support new fund launches and debt facility arrangements
Continuous Improvement
- Enhance financial systems and processes across treasury, loan, accounting, and invoice management platforms
- Drive operational efficiencies and support ad hoc projects
Essential Qualifications:
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Previous team management experience is essential
- Excellent team and project management skills
- Experience of managing multiple stakeholder relationships, including influencing senior stakeholders
- Exceptional attention to detail and able to deliver accuracy in a high pressure environment
- Flexible and willing to adapt to changing team requirements
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working in a financial services or property lending environment would be advantageous
- Experience working with Power BI and loan management systems
- Systems implementation experience would be beneficial
What we offer
💰 A competitive salary, bonus, pension and share incentive plan
✈️ Untracked holiday
🏡 Hybrid working – our people spend 3 days a week in the office
⚓ Anchor (our wellness hub) which includes Headspace, one to one coaching through Wellness Cloud, Digital GP & more
👪 Up to 6 months paid parental leave regardless of gender
❤️ Life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection
🏥 Private medical insurance for you and your family
🚗 Electric vehicle leasing
Our Values
At our core, we believe that how a company behaves is just as important as what it does. That’s why we chose to become an accredited B Corp (the equivalent of a Fairtrade coffee stamp but for companies) and to change our Articles of Association so that the interests all our stakeholders – employees, customers, communities, environment and shareholders – are considered in every decision we make.
We are committed to building a workplace where diversity is valued, and inclusion is a priority. By providing equal opportunities for growth and development, we embrace and celebrate all races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, ages, disabilities, and socio-economic backgrounds. We believe teams achieve their best when every member feels safe, respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.
We're proud to be disability confident and are committed to supporting candidates with a disability, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, throughout the recruitment process. Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the disability confident scheme as part of our application process. If you require any adjustments to the interview process, we’ll be happy to accommodate where possible.
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What We Do
Octopus Investments, part of the Octopus Group, is an investment company investing in the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. We manage investments for retail and institutional investors, investing the £13.4* billion they have entrusted to us into the areas where we believe we can have the greatest impact. More than 85% of the money we manage is invested in line with one or more of our three investment themes: empowering people, revitalising healthcare and building a sustainable planet.
Our retail investors and the financial advisers that support them, have many different goals, from supporting their families to lead better lives and effectively passing down wealth to protecting their money and directing it to places that need it. We provide a range of products that help them to achieve these aims, including Venture Capital Trusts, Enterprise Investment Schemes, Business Relief-qualifying investments and listed UK small and medium-sized company funds.
We support our institutional investors to meet their investment mandates on behalf of their end investors, across five specialist asset classes: renewable energy, sustainable infrastructure, real estate, healthcare and venture capital.
Octopus Real Estate and Octopus Ventures are part of Octopus Investments.
* Octopus as at 31 June 2024
Funds Under Management data includes undrawn commitments, funds under advisory mandates and funds monitored. It also includes funds under the management of Octopus Renewables Limited.
Octopus Investments Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Registered office: 33 Holborn, London, EC1N 2HT. Registered in England and Wales No.03942880.
