Senior Development Analyst

The Role..

Soho House is growing at pace, with a strong global pipeline of new site acquisitions, conversions and developments. The Senior Analyst, Development is a high-potential, analytically driven role that will own the financial modelling, feasibility analysis and underwriting outputs that underpin Soho House’s new site development programme, ensuring every opportunity in the pipeline is supported by rigorous, well-structured and presentation-ready financial analysis.

Approximately 80% of this role is dedicated to development finance and underwriting. The Senior Analyst will be responsible for building and maintaining financial models, preparing investment decks, maintaining the development pipeline tracker, and coordinating inputs from across the business. In addition to underwriting individual development projects, the role will support the enhancement of Soho House’s development underwriting standards and methodologies, strengthening capital discipline, improving decision‑making quality and supporting a scalable, repeatable acquisition and development process as the business continues to grow.

The remaining 20% of the role provides broader support to the Executive Strategy Director on Executive-level, cross-functional priorities, materials, and ad hoc strategic analysis, providing the role with a holistic view into the Company’s priorities.

This is an ideal role for someone with a strong finance or investment background who wants to deepen their expertise in development finance and learn about the many facets of running a fast-moving, brand-led global business, with direct exposure to senior leadership and Board-level decision-making.

This role reports directly to the Executive Strategy Director, working in close partnership with Finance, Development, Design, Legal, and Operations.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Modelling & Analysis

• Build, own and refine financial models for new site development opportunities, incorporating development capex, pre-opening costs, operating forecasts, cash flow phasing, return metrics and sensitivities.
• Stress-test models against a range of scenarios and capital structures, surfacing key risks and partnering with the Executive Strategy Director to align on inputs to underpin the recommended proposal for Leadership approval.
• Ensure models are accurate, well-structured and auditable, built to a standard that can be presented to senior leadership and the Board.
• Update models as deal terms, operational assumptions or market conditions evolve throughout the development process.
• Support post-opening performance reviews, comparing actual outcomes against underwriting assumptions and identifying key variances and learnings to feed back into future models.

Underwriting Decks & Investment Materials

• Own the end-to-end preparation of underwriting decks and investment papers, translating financial model outputs into clear, compelling narratives for senior leadership and the Board.
• Prepare supporting materials for development pipeline reviews, including summary outputs, one-pagers and scenario comparison slides.
• Ensure all investment materials are presentation-ready, well-designed and communicate the right level of detail for the intended audience.
• Maintain and continuously improve underwriting templates and standards, ensuring consistency across all development opportunities.
• Embed learnings from post‑opening performance and outcomes back into underwriting standards to drive continuous improvement and smarter capital allocation.

Pipeline Coordination & Cross-Team Input

• Coordinate the collection of assumptions and inputs from Development, Legal, Operations and FP&A, sourcing, consolidating and quality-checking information from across the business.
• Hold cross-functional stakeholders accountable for delivering their inputs on time, escalating delays to the Executive Strategy Director as needed.
• Maintain the development pipeline tracker, keeping all active opportunities up to date and accurately reflected.
• Manage the cadence of underwriting-related meetings, preparing agendas, pre-reads and follow-up actions to keep workstreams moving efficiently.

Thought Partnership & Analysis

• Actively contribute ideas, challenge assumptions and offer analytical perspectives — this is not a passive support role, but one that expects genuine intellectual engagement.
• Identify patterns, inconsistencies or opportunities in data and models, surfacing these proactively to the Director.
• Support the evaluation of alternative scenarios, phasing options and strategic trade-offs, helping the Director stress-test recommendations before they go to senior leadership.

Strategic & Executive Support

• Provide analytical and presentation support to the Executive Strategy Director on ad hoc strategic priorities, executive materials and cross-functional projects as they arise.
• Conduct research, benchmarking and data analysis to inform recommendations, pulling together information from internal and external sources into clear, structured outputs.
• Support the preparation of board materials, leadership briefings and strategic reviews as required, owning first-draft production and iterating based on feedback.

Skills & Experience..

Essential

• 2–4 years’ experience in investment banking, real estate finance, private equity, development finance or a related analytical role.
• Strong academic background in finance, economics, real estate or a related analytical discipline.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills; highly comfortable building multi-year, multi-scenario models from scratch and stress-testing the work of others.
• Strong PowerPoint skills; able to translate complex financial analysis into clear, well-structured and visually compelling presentations.
• Highly organised and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple live workstreams simultaneously without dropping the ball.
• Proactive and commercially curious; takes ownership of their work and looks for ways to add value beyond what’s been asked.

Desirable

• Experience in international, high‑growth or brand‑led businesses.
• Familiarity with development finance structures including leases, management agreements and propco/opco arrangements.
• Exposure to Board or Investment Committee‑level decision‑making.
• Understanding of hospitality or membership‑based operating models.

Personal Attributes

• Commercially focused, analytical and detail‑oriented.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment.
• Confident, pragmatic communicator with strong stakeholder presence.
• High sense of ownership and accountability for deadlines and financial outcomes.
• High standards and low ego, focused on producing great work to support the success of the team.