Director - Real Estate Valuation

Consult; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO is seeking a Director to lead our real estate valuation service offering and manage a portfolio with a focus on timely, high-quality delivery. You will head a team of junior surveyors and collaborate with the wider advisory group to drive project work and business development, delivering value for clients and the firm.

Ideal candidates will have extensive corporate real estate valuation experience, strong leadership, and proven ability to manage risk and commercial outcomes across diverse

Qualifications

• Extensive background in corporate real estate, valuation and capital markets.
• Senior valuation experience at a leading professional services firm, ideally with audit exposure.
• Proficiency in multiple valuation techniques across real estate asset classes.
• Proven people leadership skills and commitment to developing teams.
• Strong quality, risk and commercial management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the real estate valuation service offering and manage a portfolio with timely, high-quality delivery.
• Supervise a team of junior surveyors and support the wider team with project work.
• Develop business through marketing activities and collaboration with senior staff.

Skills

Real estate valuation

Capital markets

Valuation techniques

People leadership

Quality & risk management

Job description

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions businesses need to navigate today’s changing world.

Our clients are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high-growth businesses that fuel the economy - and the owners and management teams that lead them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Our Advisory team provide a wide variety of services that deliver value-led advice and outcomes. They have an in-depth knowledge of business, industry sectors and markets and understand the constantly changing risks and opportunities at the heart of our clients’ affairs. The team work across strategy, operations and improvement as well as at a transactional and defined project level. From technology to risk advisory, they’re experts in following through on top-level instructions and resolving the finer details – all in one straight-forward package. When you join them, you’ll work on some of the world's most exciting financial operations and business deals, building your experience and expertise alongside the brightest minds in the industry.

We’ll help you succeed

As a Director, you will lead our real estate valuation service offering and will be managing a portfolio and be responsible for the timely completion and quality delivery of engagements both in an advisory capacity and in support of audit. You will lead a team of junior surveyors and will support the wider team with project work, build excellent relationships, initiate, and deliver marketing and business development projects and work with other senior staff to develop the business.

You’ll be someone with:

• An extensive background in corporate real estate, valuation and capital markets seeking to leverage that in a consulting capacity
• Significant valuation experience at a sufficiently senior level gained from another professional services firm, ideally one with an audit practice.
• Proficiency in a number of valuation techniques and exposure across a range of real estate asset classes.
• Proven people leadership skills and commitment to developing teams
• Strong Quality & Risk and Commercial Management skills

You’ll also be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer everyone the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task in hand.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy.

Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.