Marcus Schofield
Altrincham,Cheshire
Summary
Qualified CIMA Management Accountant with strong expertise in business partnering, investment analysis, and financial reporting. Highly effective at working with senior stakeholders to drive financial performance, evaluate growth opportunities, and support informed decision making. Commercially focused and detail driven, with proven experience translating complex financial data into actionable insights and continuously improving financial processes to enhance efficiency, strengthen controls, and improve the quality and timeliness of management information.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Commercial finance manager
Bruntwood SciTech
Manchester
11.2024 - Current
- Finance Manager for the Cheshire and Cambridge regional portfolios, as well as a portfolio of development assets, providing end to end financial and commercial oversight.
- Act as a strategic finance business partner to asset management, commercial, and operational teams, delivering robust financial insight, challenge, and decision support to drive performance and value creation.
- Monitor, maintain, and challenge investment appraisals for development projects, ensuring assumptions, returns, and risks remain aligned with approved business plans.
- Control and manage development project cashflows and funding drawdowns, ensuring compliance with lender covenants and funding requirements, and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Lead budgeting and reforecasting for managed portfolios, improving financial visibility and supporting effective planning and decision-making.
- Support the year end audit process by preparing and providing audit evidence, responding to auditor queries, and ensuring timely and accurate completion.
- Line manage two Finance Executives, providing coaching, performance management, and ongoing professional development.
Management accountant
Bruntwood SciTech
Manchester, Greater Manchester
01.2024 - 12.2025
- Owned the budget and reforecast process for regional investment portfolios across Liverpool, Leeds, and Birmingham.
- Prepared quarterly portfolio reporting packs and presented financial performance and key insights to the senior leadership team.
- Partnered with commercial, asset management, and operational teams to support strategic decision making, including business case evaluation for major expenditure, redevelopments, and acquisitions/disposals.
- Provided financial appraisal and commercial insight on lease transactions to add value and mitigate risk to the business plan.
- Reviewed and controlled day to day business expenditure through weekbank cash forecasting and invoice approvals.
Senior Finance Executive
Bruntwood Works
Manchester, Greater Manchester
10.2021 - 01.2024
- Preparation of quarterly management accounts with variance analysis and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Responsible for the development of financial models to improve existing finance processes, including property income and expenditure forecasting as well as investment appraisals.
- Supervised and coordinated the responsibilities of finance executives within the team while also providing mentorship and support to them.
- Ownership of project accounting process for all major expenditure across the Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham portfolios.
- Coordinated all aspects of financial reporting for the 'Made & Managed' product with the aim of monitoring and improving the financial performance against the business plan.
Finance executive
Bruntwood Works
Manchester, Greater Manchester
10.2018 - 10.2021
- Ownership of quarterly and year end processes for aspects of income and expenditure for each portfolio.
- Supporting the senior finance manager in processing changes to the annual budget and quarterly forecast for the Manchester City Centre and Leeds portfolios.
- Supported the finance group reporting function in the preparation of statutory accounts for multiple group companies.
- Management of weekly cash plan to update the central group cash forecasts.
- Provided the senior management team with key financial and non-financial performance indicators, highlighting trends and analysing causes of variances against the prior business plan.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Economics and Politics
The University of Sheffield
09.2015 - 06.2018
A-Levels - Economics, Geography, Business Studies
Oldham Sixth Form College
09.2013 - 07.2015
Skills
- Finance Business Partnering & Stakeholder Management
- Investment Analysis, Appraisal & Financial Modelling
- Budgeting, Forecasting & Performance Management
- Commercial & Strategic Financial Analysis
- Continuous Improvement of Financial Processes & Controls
- Process Efficiency, Automation & Reporting Optimisation
- Decision Support, Scenario & KPI Analysis
- Advanced Excel & Financial Modelling
- ERP & BI Systems (eg SAP, Oracle, Power BI)
Timeline
Commercial finance manager
Bruntwood SciTech
11.2024 - Current
Management accountant
Bruntwood SciTech
01.2024 - 12.2025
Senior Finance Executive
Bruntwood Works
10.2021 - 01.2024
Finance executive
Bruntwood Works
10.2018 - 10.2021
Bachelor of Arts - Economics and Politics
The University of Sheffield
09.2015 - 06.2018
A-Levels - Economics, Geography, Business Studies
Oldham Sixth Form College
09.2013 - 07.2015