Construction Director - Real Estate Lender Spanish Fluent

The Role

• Oversight and day-to-day management of complex construction assets or loans
• Construction risk management throughout the life cycle of the investment
• Working with the investment team to review new opportunities
• Working with the asset management team monitoring and assessing progress of the developments
• Assessing the suitability of counterparties, contractors and professional teams
• Reviewing construction costs and programme of new deals
• Implementing procedures for Due Diligence
• Managing external construction teams and design teams
• Managing external enhanced monitoring teams
• Working with external monitoring surveyors accessing the technical due diligence of new deals
• Reviewing monthly monitoring surveyor reports
• Tracking construction cost and programme changes across the projects
• Approving UTR requests for construction related drawdowns.
• Visit sites to meet with the sponsor, contractors and professional team
• Identify discrepancies in budgets, reports and ongoing projects, recommend appropriate remedies for these discrepancies and where necessary to challenge borrowers and third parties. Support re-underwriting of budgets by providing relevant comps

The Candidate

• Chartered Surveyor (RICS qualified) Quantity surveyor or Building surveyor/ Highly analytical & numerate / Risk management & reporting / Real Estate Construction AM
• Minimum 15+ years’ experience in Real Estate development / construction / asset management.
• Spanish speaking
• Track record of managing projects in Spain
• Highly diligent, hands on and process driven
• Persistent and organised
• Strong planning, organisational, negotiation and analytical skills