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The University of Nicosia invites applications for UNIC Athens Campus for the role of Senior Finance Project Manager.The Senior Finance Project Manager will lead the financial management of a major, multi-phase university capital project in Athens involving the development of new teaching and research facilities for UNIC Athens.The postholder will be responsible for end-to-end financial oversight across the project lifecycle, including financial planning, budget control, integrated cash flow and liquidity management, funding coordination, financial governance, lender and funding-party interface, procurement support, contract-related financial oversight, risk monitoring, and executive reporting.In addition, the role is expected to actively contribute to broader financial decision-making, particularly in relation to funding strategy, liquidity positioning, investment structuring, and financial risk.This is a highly collaborative and non-standalone role, requiring the ability to operate through and coordinate a multidisciplinary network of finance, accounting, legal, procurement, and administrative stakeholders, ensuring consistent financial oversight across a complex and evolving project environment.The role requires a senior finance professional with substantial experience in large-scale, complex capital projects, capable of working closely with executive leadership, project teams, consultants, contractors, external advisors, and funding counterparties.Key Responsibilities:&nbsp;Financial Planning and Control<ul><li>Lead integrated financial planning across project phases, ensuring that budget, forecast, and funding</li><li>assumptions remain aligned as the project evolves across multiple project entities</li><li>Develop and maintain medium-term and long-term liquidity projections to support strategic decision-making and delivery planning</li><li>Lead the preparation and maintenance of the overall project budget</li><li>Develop cost forecasts, cash flow projections, and financial scenarios</li><li>Monitor actual spend against approved budgets and committed costs</li><li>Identify variances, cost pressures, and financial risks; recommend corrective action</li><li>Maintain accurate forecasts of final project cost and funding requirements</li></ul>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Project Finance and Funding<ul><li>Oversee project cash flow and liquidity planning</li><li>Coordinate funding requests, drawdowns, and supporting financial documentation</li><li>Monitor payment schedules, contractual obligations, retention balances, and approvals</li><li>Ensure timely and accurate processing of project-related financial commitments</li><li>Act as a key finance contact in relation to lenders and other funding stakeholders</li><li>Monitor compliance with funding requirements, reporting obligations, and approval conditions</li><li>Support the financial structuring of project phases and the alignment of funding availability with delivery milestones, including contribution to funding strategy</li></ul>Procurement and Contract Support<ul><li>Support procurement activity through financial analysis of tenders, pricing, and commercial terms</li><li>Review the financial implications of contractor and consultant appointments</li><li>Assess variations, claims, change orders, and other cost events in coordination with project and legal teams</li><li>Maintain oversight of committed costs and future financial exposure</li><li>Provide financial input into major procurement and contracting decisions, with particular focus on affordability, risk allocation, payment structures, and long-term cost exposure</li></ul>Governance, Reporting, and Compliance<ul><li>Establish and maintain strong financial controls across the project and across relevant entities</li><li>Ensure compliance with company policies, approval procedures, and relevant statutory</li><li>requirements</li><li>Prepare regular financial reports for senior leadership, committees, and other stakeholders</li><li>Support audit activity and maintain clear, accurate, and complete financial records</li><li>Contribute to financial decision-making by providing clear analysis and recommendations.</li><li>Support a demanding governance framework through high-quality reporting, decision papers, and financial analysis for senior internal stakeholders and external parties.</li><li>Ensure that financial oversight keeps pace with project complexity, programme phasing, and evolving investment requirements</li></ul>Stakeholder Management<ul><li>Act as the principal finance contact for the project.</li><li>Work closely with internal stakeholders, external consultants, contractors, and advisors.</li><li>Support leadership discussions on affordability, cost risk, contingency use, and funding sufficiency.</li><li>Work closely with executive stakeholders on project affordability, funding strategy, liquidity risk, and financial implications of major delivery decisions.</li><li>Coordinate effectively across multiple workstreams and stakeholders to ensure consistent financial information, reporting, and control.</li><li>Coordinate effectively across multiple entities and multidisciplinary teams finance, accounting, legal, administrative.</li></ul>&nbsp;Professional Qualifications and Experience:<ul><li>Professional accounting or finance qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, or equivalent</li><li>Significant senior-level finance experience in construction, infrastructure, real estate development, or major capital projects</li><li>Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, cost control, and financial reporting</li><li>Knowledge of Greek regulatory, tax, and reporting requirements relevant to capital projects</li><li>Experience supporting procurement, contract management, and commercial decision-making</li><li>Strong understanding of financial governance, internal controls, audit, and compliance</li><li>Proven experience in large, high-value, multi-phase capital programmes</li><li>Experience operating within multi-entity project structures</li><li>Strong experience in liquidity planning, funding coordination, and financially supporting projects operating within complex governance frameworks</li><li>Experience engaging with lenders, external funding parties, or similarly demanding financial counterparties</li><li>Ability to operate credibly at executive level and provide financial leadership in a complex, evolving project environment</li><li>Ability to work effectively with senior stakeholders and multidisciplinary project teams</li><li>Ability to coordinate and influence multidisciplinary teams in a non-standalone role</li><li>Excellent written and spoken Greek and English</li></ul>Personal Attributes:&nbsp;<ul><li>Ability to manage financial complexity while maintaining clarity, control, and delivery focus</li><li>Strong judgement in balancing project needs, funding constraints, governance requirements, and commercial risk</li><li>High level of integrity and accountability</li><li>Clear and concise reporting skills</li><li>Strong analytical capability</li><li>Effective stakeholder management</li><li>Ability to operate confidently in a complex project environment</li><li>Strong organisational and problem-solving skills</li></ul>

Senior Finance Project Manager – UNIC Athens

Responsible for the Workplace Experience and Operations for a geographical region spanning 10 countries, our Workplace Managers combine People, Technology, and Space across Office and Serviced Office locations to create an exceptional workplace experience for our Employees, Visitors, Contractors and Courier Partners. Regional Workplace Managers support their direct reports (in country workplace managers) to perform at their best, providing guidance and oversight to ensure our workplaces’ functionality, comfort, safety, sustainability and efficiency;&nbsp; whilst ensuring that our office ‘hubs’ are properly set up for collaboration and focus as well as our smaller satellite locations without onsite staff appropriately situated, supported and well-equipped.What you’ll be doing<ul><li>Lead a regional team of Workplace Managers &amp; Workplace Coordinators in ensuring our workplace experience supports Wolt’s mission &amp; values and team objectives are met.</li><li>Setup and onboard new offices as Wolt expands in your region. Partner with business leads, local and global teams to ensure effective communication with landlords, internal and external stakeholders so that office projects in your region can be delivered on time and in accordance with both Wolt’s global standards and any local requirements.</li><li>Ensure all sites within the regional portfolio are managed and maintained to a high standard and in compliance with local and global policies and guidelines.</li><li>Build department policies and procedures in conjunction with Wolt’s Global Workplace and Facilities manager, complying with International Health and Safety Standards.</li><li>Partner with South region teams such as Physical Security and Safety, Sustainability and People to provide office specific program roll outs for initiatives such as Health and Safety, Sustainability and DEI, Internal Events and Community.</li><li>Partner with Integrated Facilities Management Vendors to ensure safe and compliant workspaces and that service level agreements are met. Conduct formal site condition inspections and work closely with responsible parties to ensure any deficiencies identified are resolved.&nbsp;</li><li>Create and own the development of annual Opex budgets for your region, tracking and reporting on financial variance and operations expenses management.</li></ul>Our Humble Expectations<ul><li>8+ years previous experience and regional role experience Workplace or Facilities Management in a global organization within a fast-paced and high growth environment</li><li>Bachelors or equivalent years of experience. Industry body qualifications&nbsp; (IWFM, CFM or similar) are a bonus.</li><li>Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail</li><li>Strong leadership capabilities, proven experience to motivate and lead a team</li><li>Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work with internal and external stakeholders</li><li>A demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across departments and levels within a complex organization.</li><li>Ability and willingness to travel in order to properly support all locations in-Region (especially during office relocations and openings)</li><li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. Ability to work autonomously in a fast-moving environment, strong relationship building and stakeholder management skills, and a true growth mindset to consistently learn and develop skills.</li><li>Comfortable collaborating remotely and dynamically using digital tools such as GSuite, Slack and Zoom.</li></ul>

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