The Role
OakNorth is looking for a commercially sharp Monitoring Surveyor to join our Workout & Restructuring team. This is a hands-on risk-focused role with direct accountability for protecting the Banks capital across distressed real estate exposures.
The role requires deep quantity surveying experience combined with strong commercial judgement. The successful candidate will take ownership of cost risk delivery risk and funding integrity across a portfolio of challenged real estate loans providing clear decision-ready analysis to senior stakeholders.
This is not passive monitoring. Youll be actively interrogating cost risk challenging borrower assumptions and shaping recovery outcomes on complex high-value situations.
Youll report to a Senior Director within Workout & Restructuring working closely with Credit Legal and Portfolio teams.
What Youll Do
Cost & Quantity Surveying
- Lead detailed review of development budgets appraisals and cashflows
- Form independent evidence-based views on cost-to-complete including downside scenarios
- Identify overruns under-provisioning and contingency gaps
- Challenge borrower and contractor assumptions with evidence based analysis.
- Assess value engineering opportunities without compromising asset value or exit value.
- Review procurement strategies contract structures (JCT/NEC) and drawdown requests
- Review and validate drawdown requests interim valuations and payment certifications.
Project & Delivery Risk
- Monitor progress against programme milestones and funding triggers
- Identify delivery risks including contractor performance delays and technical issues.
- Assess contractor performance buildability and practical completion risk
- Provide clear decision-ready reporting on project status and required interventions
Workout & Restructuring
- Support enforcement scenarios including step-in contractor replacement and project stabilisation
- Advise on options to complete restructure refinance or dispose of assets
- Input into asset-level business plans and recovery strategies
- Work on partially completed stalled or non-performing developments
- Other types of real estate assets that require a surveyors input
Credit Support
- Provide technical input into credit papers amendments and restructuring proposals
- Connect construction cost analysis directly to loan exposure LTV and recovery outcomes
- Support sensitivity analysis on cost inflation delays and exit values
Stakeholder Management
- Act as a credible counterparty to sponsors developers and professional teams
- Manage and challenge external monitoring surveyors and consultants
- Work closely with Workout & Restructuring Credit and Legal teams
- Escalate issues early with clear recommendations
- Present strategies and updates to Credit Committee and senior management
What Were Looking For
- Strong track record in quantity surveying and/or monitoring surveying
- Experience in real estate finance restructuring or complex project environments
- Exposure to distressed or underperforming assets is a real advantage
- Deep knowledge of construction costs procurement and contract management (JCT/NEC)
- Ability to assess incomplete or poor-quality information and form robust conclusions.
- MRICS qualified (preferred) degree in Quantity Surveying or related discipline
Why OakNorth
At OakNorth were on a mission to empower ambitious businesses and the communities they serve. Since 2015 weve lent over $21 billion across the UK and US helped create more than 58000 new homes and 36000 new jobs and supported hundreds of thousands of personal savers all while driving economic growth in the markets we serve.
Benefits & Perks
- Equity. We want people to have a stake in the business so that all our interests are aligned.
- 25 days holiday
- Personalized benefits opt-in to what matters to you
- Subsidised Private Medical Insurance with Bupa
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Wellbeing and social events
- In-house Barista Bar in London office
- Support causes that matter to you Volunteering time off
- Salary sacrifice schemes (Cycle to work nursery gym electric car scheme)
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
Required Experience:
Director
The RoleOakNorth is looking for a commercially sharp Monitoring Surveyor to join our Workout & Restructuring team. This is a hands-on risk-focused role with direct accountability for protecting the Banks capital across distressed real estate exposures.The role requires deep quantity surveying experi...
The Role
OakNorth is looking for a commercially sharp Monitoring Surveyor to join our Workout & Restructuring team. This is a hands-on risk-focused role with direct accountability for protecting the Banks capital across distressed real estate exposures.
The role requires deep quantity surveying experience combined with strong commercial judgement. The successful candidate will take ownership of cost risk delivery risk and funding integrity across a portfolio of challenged real estate loans providing clear decision-ready analysis to senior stakeholders.
This is not passive monitoring. Youll be actively interrogating cost risk challenging borrower assumptions and shaping recovery outcomes on complex high-value situations.
Youll report to a Senior Director within Workout & Restructuring working closely with Credit Legal and Portfolio teams.
What Youll Do
Cost & Quantity Surveying
- Lead detailed review of development budgets appraisals and cashflows
- Form independent evidence-based views on cost-to-complete including downside scenarios
- Identify overruns under-provisioning and contingency gaps
- Challenge borrower and contractor assumptions with evidence based analysis.
- Assess value engineering opportunities without compromising asset value or exit value.
- Review procurement strategies contract structures (JCT/NEC) and drawdown requests
- Review and validate drawdown requests interim valuations and payment certifications.
Project & Delivery Risk
- Monitor progress against programme milestones and funding triggers
- Identify delivery risks including contractor performance delays and technical issues.
- Assess contractor performance buildability and practical completion risk
- Provide clear decision-ready reporting on project status and required interventions
Workout & Restructuring
- Support enforcement scenarios including step-in contractor replacement and project stabilisation
- Advise on options to complete restructure refinance or dispose of assets
- Input into asset-level business plans and recovery strategies
- Work on partially completed stalled or non-performing developments
- Other types of real estate assets that require a surveyors input
Credit Support
- Provide technical input into credit papers amendments and restructuring proposals
- Connect construction cost analysis directly to loan exposure LTV and recovery outcomes
- Support sensitivity analysis on cost inflation delays and exit values
Stakeholder Management
- Act as a credible counterparty to sponsors developers and professional teams
- Manage and challenge external monitoring surveyors and consultants
- Work closely with Workout & Restructuring Credit and Legal teams
- Escalate issues early with clear recommendations
- Present strategies and updates to Credit Committee and senior management
What Were Looking For
- Strong track record in quantity surveying and/or monitoring surveying
- Experience in real estate finance restructuring or complex project environments
- Exposure to distressed or underperforming assets is a real advantage
- Deep knowledge of construction costs procurement and contract management (JCT/NEC)
- Ability to assess incomplete or poor-quality information and form robust conclusions.
- MRICS qualified (preferred) degree in Quantity Surveying or related discipline
Why OakNorth
At OakNorth were on a mission to empower ambitious businesses and the communities they serve. Since 2015 weve lent over $21 billion across the UK and US helped create more than 58000 new homes and 36000 new jobs and supported hundreds of thousands of personal savers all while driving economic growth in the markets we serve.
Benefits & Perks
- Equity. We want people to have a stake in the business so that all our interests are aligned.
- 25 days holiday
- Personalized benefits opt-in to what matters to you
- Subsidised Private Medical Insurance with Bupa
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Wellbeing and social events
- In-house Barista Bar in London office
- Support causes that matter to you Volunteering time off
- Salary sacrifice schemes (Cycle to work nursery gym electric car scheme)
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
Required Experience:
Director
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