Associate Director - Regional Capital Project Controls Manager (Corporate Real Estate)

Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project and redefine the boundaries of ambition. Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey.

Reporting directly to the global lead-portfolio strategy and capital planning, the regional capital planning manager owns the day-to-day delivery of regional capital planning and portfolio management activities.

The role ensures accurate, complete and timely regional inputs to the global capital plan, applies global planning standards, and translates regional investment needs into evidence-based proposals.

It works closely with the regional IPMO lead, client stakeholders and delivery partners to support regional endorsement and implementation of approved plans.

You’ll be responsible for:

Operational execution

- Directing capital planning BAU and FRP activities within the region, including data collection, analysis, and reporting.
- Implement the global capital planning strategy locally, ensuring alignment with regional business needs and compliance with governance standards.
- Coordinate regional inputs into the global capital spend annual planning process.
- Preparing the necessary capital planning presentation pack and masterclasses material to support the global capital planning strategy.
- Maintaining the blueprint document in Vault up to date in align with the global capital planning strategy
- Updating monthly regional OpCo financial presentation slide to present capital planning insights, risks, and outlook updates.

Stakeholder collaboration

- Working with regional portfolio, capital projects, experience and ops management leads, and the client’s businesses to gather investment needs and translate them into actionable plans.
- Engaging with supplier affiliates for scoping, cost estimation, and forecasting of regional capital spend.
- Attending regional OpCo meetings to report on performance, risks, and forward-looking outlooks.

Financial and programme support

- Supporting the capital spend finance and resourcing plan (FRP) and ad hoc savings reviews at the regional level.
- Monitoring regional capital project performance and escalate risks or deviations to the global capital planning lead.
- Managing regional capital spend allocation, including ad-hoc requests, under/overspend reallocation, and accruals.

Reporting and forecasting

- Reviewing forecasts vs. actuals quarterly with regional teams.
- Tracking progress at gateway and milestone levels for regional projects.
- Maintaining regional capital planning tools and documentation, ensuring data integrity and transparency.

Continuous improvement

- Identifying regional capital spend saving opportunities using benchmarking and elemental analysis.
- Contributing to the development of improvement plans and optimisation strategies.
- Supporting scenario planning and predictive modelling efforts led by the global team.

You’ll need to have:

- Experience delivering capital planning, budgeting and forecasting.
- Ability to reconcile financial data and explain variances.
- Understanding of project cashflow, accruals and financial controls.
- Experience coordinating business, finance and delivery-partner inputs.
- Strong analytical and presentation skills, with the required tools named.
- Ability to challenge assumptions and escalate issues constructively.

Our values

Safety first - Going home safe and well: We champion a safe, diverse and inclusive working environment, understanding the importance of wellbeing in every team.

Client focus - Deliver on our promise: We own the quality of deliverables, strategic outcomes and build long term relationships with our clients.

Integrity - Always do the right thing: We influence positive outcomes within our industry, while always aligning with our compliance obligations.

Create opportunity - For our people to excel: We champion a continuous improvement culture throughout all activities, inspiring our people and teams to develop.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.

We are also open to discussing part time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.

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