Senior Development Analyst

Investigo; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Career progression

Job summary

Investigo, a leading UK real estate and infrastructure organisation, is seeking a commercially minded Senior Development Modeller to provide critical financial insight for major projects in London and beyond.

You will own and enhance development appraisal models, run scenario analyses, and translate outputs into actionable recommendations for boards and senior leadership. This role offers exposure to senior stakeholders and clear influence on strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• A degree in a highly quantitative discipline.
• Strong financial modelling experience in real estate or asset-intensive sectors.
• Advanced Excel and analytical modelling skills.
• Strong commercial awareness with data interpretation.
• Excellent communication to present findings to finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Experience with development appraisals, cashflow forecasting or investment modelling is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining, enhancing and owning development appraisal models, ensuring accuracy and best-practice modelling standards.
• Conducting scenario, sensitivity and cashflow analysis to support commercial and investment decisions.
• Analysing and explaining movements in key financial metrics for boards, shareholders and joint venture partners.
• Translating complex model outputs into clear commercial insights and recommendations.
• Supporting budgeting, forecasting and reforecasting processes across development projects.
• Partnering with development, construction, finance, debt and operational stakeholders to challenge assumptions and improve decision-making.
• Contributing to process improvements, automation initiatives and system enhancements.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Financial modelling

Commercial awareness

Communication

Development appraisals

Education

Quantitative degree

Job description

Join a leading UK real estate and infrastructure organisation with a portfolio of large scale, high-profile development projects. With a strong pipeline of investment and development activity, the business is seeking a commercially minded Senior Development Modeller to provide critical financial insight that supports strategic decision-making across major projects.

Your role and responsibilities

As Senior Development Modeller, you will be the modelling specialist supporting development, finance and senior leadership teams across a range of complex real estate projects.

Key responsibilities include:

• Maintaining, enhancing and owning development appraisal models, ensuring accuracy and best-practice modelling standards.
• Conducting scenario, sensitivity and cashflow analysis to support commercial and investment decisions.
• Analysing and explaining movements in key financial metrics for boards, shareholders and joint venture partners.
• Translating complex model outputs into clear commercial insights and recommendations.
• Supporting budgeting, forecasting and reforecasting processes across development projects.
• Partnering with development, construction, finance, debt and operational stakeholders to challenge assumptions and improve decision-making.
• Contributing to process improvements, automation initiatives and system enhancements.

What's Required

• A degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Physics or another highly quantitative discipline.
• Strong financial modelling experience, ideally gained within real estate, property development, infrastructure, investment or a similarly asset-intensive environment.
• Advanced Excel and analytical modelling skills with the ability to build, review and improve complex models.
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to interpret data beyond the numbers.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present findings to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Experience working with development appraisals, cashflow forecasting, scenario analysis or investment modelling would be highly advantageous.

What you get

• Opportunity to work on some of the UK's most significant real estate and infrastructure developments.
• Exposure to senior leadership, boards, investors and joint venture partners.
• A highly visible role with genuine influence on commercial decision making.
• The chance to work alongside experienced finance and modelling professionals in a collaborative environment.
• Strong opportunities for professional development and career progression.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.