Director of Development Finance

🔍 Director of Development Finance - Major Urban JV Projects
📍 London | 🗓️ 12-Month FTC | 💰 £six-figure package + 30% Bonus
🚀 Shape the future of UK cities through one of the most ambitious regeneration programmes underway today.

The Role

We're looking for a commercially sharp development finance lead to join a high-profile public-private joint venture, focused on delivering multi-phase, city-shaping regeneration projects across several major sites in the UK.

This is a senior role operating at the intersection of strategy, finance, planning, and delivery. You'll act as the key financial partner overseeing complex modelling, performance tracking, and governance for a multi-billion-pound development pipeline. Your goal: to ensure long-term value is created, risks are well managed, and partner performance aligns with agreed outcomes.

What You'll Be Doing

• Reviewing and challenging detailed development appraisals and financial models

• Stress-testing assumptions and providing high-quality analysis for investment decisions

• Partnering with internal stakeholders and JV counterparts to drive financial oversight and value

• Leading capital reforecasts, P&L tracking, and business plan assurance

• Ensuring governance milestones and partner obligations are met across multiple live sites

What We're Looking For

• Experience in large-scale, multi-phase urban development or regeneration projects

• Strong understanding of development appraisal models - you don't need to build them, but you need to pull them apart

• A commercial mindset with the ability to influence at senior and board level

• Comfortable operating in a joint venture or public-private environment

• Professional accounting qualification helpful but not essential - you'll need to think like one, not necessarily be one

This is not a standard finance role.
You'll be dealing with big numbers, big partners, and big expectations - this needs someone with credibility, resilience, and commercial edge.

Backgrounds We'd Be Interested In:
🏙️ Major developers, real estate funds, strategic land specialists
🏗️ Urban regeneration or infrastructure-led development projects
📊 Development finance teams in advisory or client-side settings
🤝 Roles involving JV governance, modelling oversight, or portfolio performance

Interested?
If you want to play a key role in some of the most complex and high-impact projects in the country - let's talk. This is a unique opportunity to combine finance, strategy, and development delivery at scale.