Senior Fund Controller - Real Estate | Start Up

Overview

Compensation: £90,000 – £110,000 base + performance-linked bonus and benefits

Location: London (flexible working model)

Mandate: Exclusive

A highly entrepreneurial real estate investment platform is building out its core finance leadership and is appointing a Senior Fund Controller to take early ownership of a fast-scaling, asset-intensive portfolio.

This is a rare opportunity to join at a genuine inflexion point: committed capital, live assets, and an active pipeline, with the finance function still deliberately lean and highly influential.

The Platform

The business is founder-led, execution-focused and scaling across operational and value-add real estate creating unusually direct exposure to asset-level performance, capital deployment and investor outcomes.

The successful hire will sit at the centre of the platform, shaping how reporting, controls and decision-making are built as the portfolio grows across geographies and mandates.

• Early-stage platform with significant committed capital and live assets
• Direct exposure to asset-level performance, liquidity and capital partner reporting
• Genuine autonomy and ownership from day one
• Opportunity to design “how things are done”, not inherit legacy processes
• High visibility to founders, investors and asset leadership

This is not a back-office or administrator-led role. It is a commercial fund finance seat with real accountability, judgement and influence.

You will take end-to-end ownership of fund and portfolio reporting across a growing real estate strategy, operating in a deliberately lean environment with no in-house legal or tax function. The role suits someone comfortable being the financial owner, anticipating issues and managing external advisers.

• Ownership of fund and investor reporting, capital accounts and liquidity oversight
• Acting as the primary point of accountability for audits, administrators and advisors
• Narrative-led investor reporting, anticipating capital partner questions
• Oversight of governance, controls and best-practice reporting frameworks
• Supporting acquisitions, refinancings, capex programmes and new structures

• Close interaction with asset-level finance and operating teams
• Review and challenge budgets, forecasts, operating performance and cash flow
• Translate asset-level data into decision-ready insight for senior stakeholders
• Understand tax and structural implications on performance and funding

• Partner with investment and asset management teams on live assets
• Maintain and review financial models and commercial assumptions
• Support underwriting, new transactions and portfolio-wide analysis
• Provide a strong financial lens to investment and operational decision-making

• Practice-trained (or equivalent) with experience in real estate private equity or operational real estate funds
• Used to operating in small or mid-sized platforms with real ownership rather than narrow role definition
• Commercially minded, able to interpret data and shape narrative — not just produce reports
• Comfortable dealing directly with senior leadership and capital partners
• Motivated by responsibility, impact and platform growth rather than hierarchy

Sector specialism in hospitality or operational real estate is helpful but not essential. Judgement, curiosity and accountability matter more.

• Get in early and help shape a growing real estate investment platform
• Broad, hands-on remit with genuine influence over outcomes
• Direct exposure to capital partners and asset-level performance
• Clear runway to grow with the business as capital and mandates expand