Senior Finance Manager - Management Partnerships

Fora Space Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Birthday off

Work From Anywhere option

Pension with 5% match

Life assurance

Gym membership discount

Well-being support

Cycle to Work

Season Ticket Loan

Employee referral scheme

Job summary

Fora Space Limited seeks a Senior Finance Manager to lead the finance function for Fora’s Management Partnerships, owning high-quality reporting, planning and commercial insight across the portfolio. You will build deep understanding of commercial drivers, strengthen financial performance, and provide credible insight to internal stakeholders and external partners, while leading a small finance team.

The role includes shaping processes and controls, partnering with operations, and driving

Qualifications

• Qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA accountant with a minimum of four years’ post-qualification experience.
• Strong management accounting experience, including P&L and balance sheet ownership, variance analysis and commercially focused recommendations.
• Strong Finance business partnering experience, with exposure to budgeting, forecasting, financial planning and performance analysis.
• Experience managing and developing a Finance team.
• Experience working with senior internal stakeholders and external commercial partners.
• Strong financial modelling, budgeting and forecasting capability.
• Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with large and complex financial datasets.
• Experience improving Finance processes, reporting or systems.
• Strong understanding of financial controls and management reporting.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of financial reporting across the Management Partnerships portfolio, ensuring stakeholders have a clear and accurate view of performance.
• Oversee month-end reporting across P&Ls, balance sheets, management fees, profit share calculations and Partnership-specific accounting.
• Turn performance against budget, forecast and prior periods into meaningful insight, ensuring key drivers, risks and opportunities are understood.
• Lead the financial input into quarterly partner and Board reporting, alongside ongoing Partnership KPI reporting.
• Lead budgeting and reforecasting for Management Partnerships, connecting financial plans to the operational and commercial realities behind them.
• Work closely with operational and commercial teams to improve forecast accuracy and strengthen financial accountability.
• Provide financial analysis for existing and new Management Partnerships and strategic initiatives.
• Use your understanding of performance to identify opportunities to improve returns across individual Partnerships.
• Act as a senior Finance partner to the Partnerships team and senior stakeholders across the business.
• Build credible relationships with external partners, providing clear financial insight and commercially relevant recommendations.
• Develop a detailed understanding of Management Agreements and ensure their financial implications are reflected in reporting, planning and decision-making.
• Bring constructive challenge to assumptions and decisions, helping stakeholders balance financial performance with wider commercial priorities.
• Lead and develop the Management Partnerships finance team, creating clear priorities, strong financial disciplines and a culture of ownership.
• Coach and challenge the team across reporting, forecasting and analysis, helping build both technical and business-partnering capability.
• Maintain strong financial control across Management Partnerships, including appropriate oversight of balance sheet positions, control accounts and reconciliations.
• Work closely with the wider Finance team to resolve accounting, control and reporting issues and ensure the appropriate treatment of capital expenditure and partner recharges.
• Shape financial processes and reporting that can scale as the Management Partnerships portfolio develops.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and automate reporting, improving both efficiency and the accessibility of financial information.
• Strengthen existing controls and ways of working, making sure reporting remains consistent and reliable.
• Partner with the wider Finance team on systems, data and reporting improvements.

Skills

Management accounting

Finance business partnering

Financial modelling

Excel advanced

Stakeholder management

Financial controls

P&L ownership

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualification

Tools

SAP ByDesign

Salesforce

Job description

About the Company

At Fora, we’re reimagining what the workplace can be.

We create inspiring, design-led spaces that blend hospitality, community, and wellbeing, so people can work productively, creatively, and happily.

From our first London workspace over 20 years ago, we’ve grown to 60+ locations across the UK, supporting 30,000+ members and partnering with trailblazing brands.

Backed by The Office Group, Blackstone, and Brockton Capital, we’re growing fast and pioneering conscious design, sustainable construction, and workspaces that empower people to work in their own unique way.

At Fora, we’re not just shaping workplaces, we’re shaping the future of work.

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Finance Manager to lead the finance function supporting Fora’s Management Partnerships, taking ownership of high-quality financial reporting, planning and commercial insight across the portfolio.

This is more than a traditional financial reporting role. You’ll build a detailed understanding of the commercial and operational drivers behind each Partnership, using that knowledge to strengthen financial performance, improve decision-making and provide credible insight to both internal stakeholders and external partners.

Alongside leading and developing a small finance team, you’ll take ownership of the processes and controls behind our Management Partnerships, helping create consistent, scalable ways of working as the portfolio continues to grow.

Working Pattern

Please note this position is 4 days in the office and 1 day working from anywhere.

What You’ll Be Doing

Management Partnership Performance & Reporting

• Take ownership of financial reporting across the Management Partnerships portfolio, ensuring stakeholders have a clear and accurate view of performance.
• Oversee month-end reporting across P&Ls, balance sheets, management fees, profit share calculations and Partnership-specific accounting.
• Turn performance against budget, forecast and prior periods into meaningful insight, ensuring key drivers, risks and opportunities are understood.
• Lead the financial input into quarterly partner and Board reporting, alongside ongoing Partnership KPI reporting.

Financial Planning & Commercial Insight

• Lead budgeting and reforecasting for Management Partnerships, connecting financial plans to the operational and commercial realities behind them.
• Work closely with operational and commercial teams to improve forecast accuracy and strengthen financial accountability.
• Provide financial analysis for existing and new Management Partnerships and strategic initiatives.
• Use your understanding of performance to identify opportunities to improve returns across individual Partnerships.

Business Partnering & Partnerships

• Act as a senior Finance partner to the Partnerships team and senior stakeholders across the business.
• Build credible relationships with external partners, providing clear financial insight and commercially relevant recommendations.
• Develop a detailed understanding of Management Agreements and ensure their financial implications are reflected in reporting, planning and decision-making.
• Bring constructive challenge to assumptions and decisions, helping stakeholders balance financial performance with wider commercial priorities.

Team Leadership & Financial Control

• Lead and develop the Management Partnerships finance team, creating clear priorities, strong financial disciplines and a culture of ownership.
• Coach and challenge the team across reporting, forecasting and analysis, helping build both technical and business-partnering capability.
• Maintain strong financial control across Management Partnerships, including appropriate oversight of balance sheet positions, control accounts and reconciliations.
• Work closely with the wider Finance team to resolve accounting, control and reporting issues and ensure the appropriate treatment of capital expenditure and partner recharges.

Process, Systems & Continuous Improvement

• Shape financial processes and reporting that can scale as the Management Partnerships portfolio develops.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and automate reporting, improving both efficiency and the accessibility of financial information.
• Strengthen existing controls and ways of working, making sure reporting remains consistent and reliable.
• Partner with the wider Finance team on systems, data and reporting improvements.

Why Fora?

This role gives you the opportunity to combine technical finance leadership with real commercial influence. You’ll work across Finance, Partnerships and the wider business, while building direct relationships with external commercial partners.

You’ll have ownership not only of the quality of financial reporting, but of how financial insight is used to understand performance and inform decisions across a growing part of the business.

Essential Experience

• Qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA accountant with a minimum of four years’ post-qualification experience.
• Strong management accounting experience, including P&L and balance sheet ownership, variance analysis and commercially focused recommendations.
• Strong Finance business partnering experience, with exposure to budgeting, forecasting, financial planning and performance analysis.
• Experience managing and developing a Finance team.
• Experience working with senior internal stakeholders and external commercial partners.
• Strong financial modelling, budgeting and forecasting capability.
• Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with large and complex financial datasets.
• Experience improving Finance processes, reporting or systems.
• Strong understanding of financial controls and management reporting.

Desirable Experience

• Experience within real estate, hospitality or another multi-site operational business.
• Experience with SAP ByDesign.
• Experience with Salesforce.

At Fora we energise and empower people to create their best work. We understand that in order to do that we need to support you every day, which is why we offer a range of benefits.

Please note this position is 4 days in the office and 1 day working from anywhere.

Work Your Way

• Core working hours with flexibility– because life doesn’t run 9–5
• Two weeks ‘Work from Anywhere’ – swap your desk for a beach, a mountain… anywhere that inspires you

Time to Rest & Recharge

• 28 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
• Your birthday off – celebrate you
• Buy additional annual leave to create even more time for what matters

Well-being & Security

• 5% matched pension scheme – supporting your future
• Life assurance for peace of mind
• Discounted gym membership to keep you feeling your best
• Access to our gyms and selected wellness classes with Restore at Fora
• Health cash plan - supporting day to day medical expenses
• Mental Well-being support - confidential in-person or online therapy sessions

Smarter, Greener Commuting

• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season Ticket Loan to make your journey easier and more affordable

Perks That Make You Smile

• 25% off at Fora cafés – your morning coffee just got better
• 2 x volunteer days / year
• Generous Employee Referral Scheme