Capital Planning Manager (APAC)

As a Capital Planning Manager for the APAC region you serve as the operational engine supporting the Capital Planning Lead. You are the Fiscal Steward and Data Governance Lead for our regional portfolio responsible for ensuring the integrity of our project financial data. Your primary mandate is the stewardship of the regional capital plan ensuring that our forecasting budgeting and project tracking are accurate transparent and aligned with corporate real estate objectives. You are a disciplined inquisitive and persistent professional with strong commercial acumen bridging the gap between technical construction costs and broader business impact.

• Capital Plan Management: Lead the day-to-day management of the regional capital plan. Ensure all portfolio entries are current forecast accuracy is maintained and the plan dynamically reflects real-time project progress and financial status.
• Data Integrity & Financial Oversight: Act as the primary steward of project financial data. Proactively audit project management reports invoices and budgets to identify calculation anomalies inconsistencies or billing errors.
• Root Cause Analysis: Demonstrate high-level perseverance in conducting investigations into budget variances. When data deviates from expected norms you resolve the systemic root cause to maintain portfolio health.
• Estimate Production & Benchmarking: Produce detailed construction cost estimates and actively contribute to our benchmarking database. Capture actual project costs to refine internal estimating tools and improve future cost model accuracy.
• Commercial Advisory: Apply commercial acumen to your daily work. Evaluate project decisions based on business value lease-term alignment and long-term asset optimization ensuring alignment with corporate real estate objectives.
• Process Discipline: Champion organizational standards. Ensure all project lifecycle processesfrom budget submission to change managementare followed with strict consistency to support the Leads oversight.
• AI-Enabled Efficiency: Integrate Ellis AI and Microsoft 365 Copilot to automate data validation synthesize complex project documentation and expedite the identification of discrepancies.

Qualifications :

• Education: Bachelors Degree in Quantity Surveying Finance Architecture Engineering Construction Management or a related field.
• Experience: 7 years of relevant experience in construction project management quantity surveying or real estate finance with a strong focus on corporate office fit-outs.
• Commercial Acumen: A deep understanding of the business side of real estate. You can connect construction spend to P&L impacts identify value engineering opportunities and clearly articulate the financial justification for project priorities.
• Analytical Rigor and Fiscal Stewardship:
  • Inquisitiveness: Innate drive to verify accuracy. You pursue irregularities until the root cause is understood and resolved.
  • Data Integrity: Expert-level ability to identify errors in complex datasets including invoice audits and calculation anomalies.
• Excel Mastery: Advanced proficiency in Excel. Ability to build models that are self-auditing formula-efficient and highly reliable.
• Tech-Forward Mindset: Demonstrated ability to use AI tools (e.g. Copilot Ellis AI) to accelerate data validation and improve report generation efficiency.
• Soft Skills:
  • Communicator: Clear transparent and concise in delivery especially when communicating budget status or data discrepancies to senior stakeholders.
  • Team Player: A supportive collaborator who views their stewardship as a critical component of the Leads success.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time