The role:

An outstanding opportunity has arisen to become a key member of the Rural Land Management and Consultancy team in London. 

The Rural team undertakes a wide range of rural estate, farm and property management and professional rural advice working closely with colleagues in our National Estate Agency, Estates & Farms Agency and Forestry teams. We are working to expand the skill sets within the team, particularly in relation to Natural Capital and Rural Diversification. 

The role will be primarily focussed on estate and property management.

Key deliverables

•    Acting as principal agent/lead asset manager for a key estate management client, reporting to and working closely with senior colleagues

•    Overseeing day-to-day management of the assets and progressing strategic objectives

•    Secured lending and other professional valuations

•    Coordinating the work of all business lines involved

•    Contributing to the continued growth of the business through business development

•    Ensuring achievement of key client deliverables

•    Adherence to internal and client process and compliance standards

Responsibilities 

•    Managing and leading a high performing team on the principal instruction

•    Seeking opportunities to leverage skill and expertise to develop new business for the wider team

Key Skills

•    Competent and experienced professional with experience of managing a significant portfolio of rural assets, particularly let farms, residential property and other rural assets

•    Team leadership skills with ability to manage, delegate and supervise effectively 

•    Ability to prioritise workloads and work to high standards under pressure

•    Excellent communication skills capable of building and maintaining strong relationships with team members, other colleagues, clients and stakeholders

•    Feeds into team budgeting and deploys resources effectively and profitably

•    An entrepreneurial attitude with an aspiration to grow the profile and performance of the wider business

Person specification

Qualifications:

•    Relevant undergraduate/postgraduate degree or equivalent

•    MRICS qualified – preferably Rural pathway with 3 – 5 years PQE

•    CAAV/SAAVA membership/qualification an advantage

We are proud to offer award-winning benefits to support and reward our employees:

•    Heath & Leisure: Private medical cover, 27 days annual leave + public holidays (the option of purchasing up to 5 additional days via flex benefits), health screening, gym discounts, wellbeing support, volunteering opportunities, cycle to work scheme, eye care voucher, travel & retail discounts, travel insurance, concierge service, kids pass, open fairways golf card, great company culture and social events (including sports teams, charity events, art pass), perks at work 

•    Financial: Pension, company car allowance, life assurance at 8 x basic salary, group income protection (long term disability insurance), interest free season ticket loan, bonus scheme – you will be eligible to participate in the Company’s Bonus Scheme, share incentive plan, financial and mortgage advice 

Strutt and Parker is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, colour, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.

ROLE DESCRIPTION AND PURPOSE 

The Delegated Solutions team combines our expertise in open architecture, and comprises qualitative and quantitative research, risk due diligence and sub-advisory. Over the past years, we have demonstrated our skill in selecting third party investment funds for our clients, and we have created BNPP AM’s dedicated sub-advisory platform – AMSelect, to bring this expertise to our clients in a profitable way. The Delegated Solutions team strengthen our ability to create value for our clients, BNPP AM and BNPP Group. 

The Risk Due Diligence Team is a key, independent function, which operates separately to the Delegated Solutions team in order to control our manager selection process. Our Risk Due Diligence team analyses and assesses all the operational risks within a firm. This analysis aims to gain a clear picture of a firm’s culture and policies, evaluating risks related to trading, operations and compliance systems, human resource policies and infrastructure. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

Team Activity: 

·       Risk and Operational Due Diligence on the funds and firms selected by the Research Analysts

Contribution to the Due Diligence process on external funds and managers including: 

·       Structural, legal and operational analysis of the targeted Investment Management firm

·       Analytical review of the internal processes, corporate and legal structures, tools etc. (Corporate governance, trade process, profitability and compliance)

·       Market practices in the Asset Management industry

·       Analysis of the greenwashing risks

·       Analysis of consistency and compliance of the investment strategy deployed by the managers (instruments traded, leverage, liquidity, portfolio diversification)

·       Scheduling, preparation and involvement in the Investment Management firm visits

·       Contribution to the evolution/improvement of the ranking criteria’s and ranking tools

·       Compiling and writing the Risk Due Diligence reports

·       Presentation of the Due Diligence findings during the monthly short list committee

·       Participating to the follow-up/monitoring of the delegated funds and the review of the existing Due Diligence 

Contribution to the improvement of the Risk Management and Risk Monitoring tools: 

·       Quantitative risk monitoring tools, stress testing etc. 

·       Passive monitoring of the market risks and impacts on the various FQA 

·       Monitoring of the regulatory environment and operational risk issues that may arise on the suggested funds 

ROLE REQUIREMENTS 

ESSENTIAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES 

·       Strong knowledge of financial instruments 

·       Knowledge of the collective investment schemes structure 

·       Understanding of the various investment strategies applicable to different asset classes 

·       Analytical ability to understand Company balance sheets 

·       Able to respond to situations using rational decision-making, problem-solving, and conflict resolution skills. 

·       Autonomous and pro-active 

·       Team player 

·       Rigorous and accurate

·       Great writing skills

·       Strong written and verbal communication skills, with ability to articulate views clearly to Portfolio Managers and Management 

Specific other role requirements: 

·       Fluency in written and spoken English language

CONDUCT 

·       Be a role model, supporting and fostering a culture of good conduct 

·       Demonstrate proactivity, transparency and accountability for identifying and managing conduct risks 

·       Consider the implications of your actions on colleagues, partners and clients before making decisions and escalate issues to your manager when unsure 

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE 

The successful candidate will have extensive demonstrable skills and experiences including the following:

  • Bachelor Degree/BSc Degree, business school or equivalent in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering or related discipline 
  • Significant investment industry experience, specifically in Risk

·       Experience in audit and/or risk in an Asset Management environment is advantageous 

  • Good knowledge of the following tools: Pack Office, VBA and Bloomberg; Microsoft Office capabilities, specifically PowerPoint and Excel

The Role

Our Newcastle Building Consultancy team are recruiting for an experienced Senior Building Surveyor / Associate Director who will work as part of a local and national team in the north east of England. The candidate will be exposed to a varied workload and client base, capable of building strong client relationships and developing business by delivering high quality work. 

Responsibilities

•    Taking and being responsible for instructions reporting to the head of Newcastle building consultancy

•    Obtaining client briefs and generating fee proposals

•    Responsible for managing own workload on day-to-day basis

•    Full range of potential building surveying disciplines

•    Responsible (sometimes jointly) for successful delivery of assignments in area of expertise

•    Ambassador for BNP Paribas Real Estate in area of expertise

•    Responsible for profitability of all jobs and enhancing/ protecting the reputation of BNP Paribas Real Estate

•    Monitors and manages own fee target

•    Shares knowledge with/provides information to colleagues and team

Person specification

Qualifications

•    Degree in Building Surveying

•    MRICS qualified

Experience & skill set

•    Dilapidations, acting on behalf of landlords/tenants 

•    Building Surveys and technical due diligence

•    Project management and contract administration duties 

•    Project appraisal and monitoring

•    Licences for alteration

•    Defect analysis

•    Reinstatement Cost Assessments

•    Planned Preventative Maintenance Programmes

•    To be commercially minded with a strong sense of professionalism

•    Good technical expertise

•    Confident with clients – good communication skills

•    Able to work with minimal supervision/keen to expand knowledge

•    Good IT skills

•    Driven to develop career through longer term experience

We are proud to offer award-winning benefits to support and reward our employees:

•    Heath & Leisure: Private medical cover, 25 days annual leave + public holidays (the option of purchasing up to 5 additional days via flex benefits), health screening, gym discounts, wellbeing support, volunteering opportunities, cycle to work scheme, eye care voucher, travel & retail discounts, travel insurance, concierge service, kids pass, open fairways golf card, great company culture and social events (including sports teams, charity events, art pass), perks at work 

•    Financial:  Pension, company car allowance, life assurance at 8 x basic salary, group income protection (long term disability insurance), interest free season ticket loan, bonus scheme – you will be eligible to participate in the Company’s Bonus Scheme, share incentive plan, financial and mortgage advice 

BNP Paribas Real Estate is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, colour, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.

The role

A new opportunity to join a leading role in the Central London Lease Advisory team advising landlords and tenants across the Capital and the South-East. Our client base ranges from Government and public bodies, asset management companies, leading insurance brokers and private owners. Within the legal sector we act for large sets of barristers chambers and two of the four Inns of Court.

Backed by the BNP Paribas’s client base and market leading agency teams the role will fit a Director or Senior Director experienced in rent reviews, lease renewals and regears and who is ambitious to seek out new instructions and opportunities. 

BNPPRE’s breadth of expertise includes not only agency and investment teams but also building surveying, corporate real estate, management, rating and valuation surveyors with whom cross selling is important and successful.

The Central London team falls within a national department with 10 directors such that we offer our clients coverage and pursue joint opportunities throughout the UK.

We will offer an attractive salary commensurate with experience together with valuable Spectrum benefits that flow from being part of a leading Bank including pension and private health arrangements, generous vacation periods and significant discounts from leading retailers.  We also offer a bonus scheme awarded on a discretionary basis when securing fees in excess of an expected threshold.

Responsibilities

You will be expected to provide reliable advice to the Company’s existing clients and also to seek out and establish your own client and instructions base.

Timely and accurate client reporting is a given as well as the understanding and ability to provide and deliver upon reliable fee budgeting data.. 

As a key appointee to the national team you will contribute to the development of its future strategy, monitoring and improving profitability and to deciding upon new team appointments.

Clients and Business Development

You will be able and expected to 

•    Actively manage BNP Paribas Real Estate clients base to deliver financial goals 

•    Maintain and build strategic client relationships

•    Actively sell our Lease Advisory capability to clients 

•    Be effective in winning new business 

•    Develop a solid track record of repeat instructions

•    Identify cross selling opportunities and execute them

•    Monitor service to clients via regular reviews and promptly rectify any shortfall in quality

•    Actively participate in our Key Account Management programme and ensure we understand and anticipate client Lease Advisory needs

•    Develop a strong network of relationships and proactively sell services across the Group 

•    Work with managers/directors outside of the team in the achievement of our company vision and objectives

People

Our Lease Advisory team has been established over 40 years. We are proud to offer a team with senior members who have worked together for many years together with younger directors, surveyors and apprentices. Working together and enjoying doing so is a vital part of our success.  Thus you will have a key role to

•    Coach and mentor others

•    Manage resources on assignments where appropriate

•    Attend external networking events, keeping abreast of market developments and sharing these regularly with the team and Group as required  

  

Person specification – Essential qualifications and Experience

•    Educated to degree level

•    MRICS/ FRICS

•    Experience in advising upon rent reviews and lease renewals, the delivery of successful agreed outcomes through negotiations and when necessary the ability to present reasoned evidence in third party proceedings.

•    Strong market profile as a new business generator

•    Responsiveness to markets and opportunities 

We are proud to offer award-winning benefits to support and reward our employees:

•    Heath & Leisure: Private medical cover, 30 days annual leave + public holidays (the option of purchasing up to 5 additional days via flex benefits), health screening, gym discounts, wellbeing support, volunteering opportunities, cycle to work scheme, eye care voucher, travel & retail discounts, travel insurance, concierge service, kids pass, open fairways golf card, great company culture and social events (including sports teams, charity events, art pass), perks at work 

•    Financial:  Pension, company car allowance, life assurance at 8 x basic salary, group income protection (long term disability insurance), interest free season ticket loan, bonus scheme – you will be eligible to participate in the Company’s Bonus Scheme, share incentive plan, financial and mortgage advice 

BNP Paribas Real Estate is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, colour, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.

The Role

The opportunity has arisen for a Senior Building Surveyor to join the Leeds Building Consultancy Team of BNP Paribas Real Estate. Due to a steady increase in opportunities and workload, we are seeking to strengthen our team with a senior surveyor who has reached the stage where they are ready to take on fresh challenges, greater responsibility and progress their career to the next stage.

The team is well established and highly respected in the market place, with an enviable client base and a broad portfolio of instructions. You can expect to be busy from day-one, working within an experienced team, predominantly undertaking professional services for our investor and occupier clients. The role offers real variety and career development, with continual training being embedded in the team philosophy. The team based in Leeds City Centre works across a range of property sectors across the region extending from Lancashire across to the East Riding of Yorkshire, with the potential to become involved in a wider range of services both nationally and, in time, internationally.

You will be involved with a range of work including technical due diligence surveys, dilapidations, building pathology, planned preventative maintenance, neighbourly matters, licences to alter and specifying and administering refurbishment projects. Through the role, you will gain an all-round appreciation of commercial building surveying with the opportunity to progress your career to the next level. 

From the outset there will be a high level of client contact and the opportunity to build strong networks throughout the national business. The role requires the candidate to be self-motivated, responsible for managing their own workload and able to work within multi-disciplinary teams delivering integrated services to clients.

Responsibilities

•    Taking and being responsible for instructions, from inception through to completion, reporting to a director.

•    Working as part of a local and national team for the delivery of instructions.

•    Responsible for managing your own workload on a day-to-day and longer term basis.

•    Responsible for managing the work of direct reports when undertaking specific instructions;

•    Undertaking technical due diligence instructions, working with internal and external specialist consultants.

•    Carrying out design and contract administration duties, principally for general repair, maintenance, and Cat A office refurbishment projects.

•    Undertaking dilapidations instructions, acting for both landlords and tenants, covering assessments, schedule preparation and negotiation.

•    Appraising and monitoring new developments for owners, occupiers, and funders.

•    Undertaking reinstatement cost assessments.

•    Preparing planned preventative maintenance schedules.

•    Reviewing and approving tenant’s licences for alterations.

•    Providing technical building pathology advice.

•    Advising on neighbourly matters.

As well as the technical requirements of the role, you will become involved with business development activities. You will support and manage client relationships, often at a senior level, and work within the department and wider business to identify, build and maintain new and existing business opportunities.

Person specification

Qualifications

•    Degree in Building Surveying

•    MRICS qualified, or nearing qualification

•    The candidate should possess a full, clean driving licence.

Experience & skill set 

•    Work within clearly defined, well established processes.

•    Proactively solve problems and find solutions, consulting with more experienced colleagues on more difficult or unfamiliar situations.

•    Possess analytical skills and produce high quality professional advice and written work.

 
We are proud to offer award-winning benefits to support and reward our employees:
  • Heath & Leisure: Private medical cover, 25 days annual leave + public holidays (the option of purchasing up to 5 additional days via flex benefits), health screening, gym discounts, wellbeing support, volunteering opportunities, cycle to work scheme, eye care voucher, travel & retail discounts, travel insurance, concierge service, kids pass, open fairways golf card, great company culture and social events (including sports teams, charity events, art pass), perks at work 
  • Financial: Pension, company car allowance, life assurance at 8 x basic salary, group income protection (long term disability insurance), interest free season ticket loan, bonus scheme – you will be eligible to participate in the Company’s Bonus Scheme, share incentive plan, financial and mortgage advice 
BNP Paribas Real Estate is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, colour, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.
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Requirements:
Prior experience in PE fund administration.
Interest to study towards a a relevant industry qualification such as CGI.
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Requirements:
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Requirements:

Effective fund administration and client service skills.
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