Financial Analyst, Real Estate

Position: Financial Analyst, Worldwide Real Estate
Description

We are seeking a strategic finance professional that has a passion for partnering with our business team focused on WW Real Estate. Enthusiasm and energy help us deliver new ideas, and solutions. Do you view problems as treasures, and are you willing to dive deep to develop those solutions and deliver results? Will you seek to challenge the status quo, and accept that your ideas and mechanisms may be tested daily?

Team Exposure:

This role will partner closely with a broad range of Finance and business leaders in Operations, Engineering, and Technology. This role will be involved in Real Estate Capital Authorization Requests that involves DCF financial model work and advanced excel skills.

Success in this role:

The successful candidate will have demonstrated an ability to influence business owners, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly evolving environment.

Key Responsibilities:

* Obtain model input variables from Pre-Construction and Design teams

* Develop DCF models to improve and determine the viability of the investment

* Provide narrative for capital approvals with thorough financial analysis of cost savings for construction projections

* Maintain database for start up projects

* Works with a variety of data sources. Identifies incomplete or inaccurate data, identifies root causes of data issues, escalates discrepancies, fixes data where possible or partners to deliver a solution.

* Uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjusts style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly.

* Identifies and implements solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes.

* Makes thoughtful time management decisions independently. Prioritizes work, resolves issues, meets deadlines, and seeks feedback from your manager.

* Discerns between urgent and non-urgent issues and acts accordingly to solve them.

* Drives own self-development in the Finance Community: seeks opportunities to expand finance expertise.

* Participates in events, initiatives, and projects, then shares gained knowledge in and outside of your team.

* Contributes to work life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members as an indicator of operations excellence.

Key job responsibilities

Obtain model input variables from Pre-Construction and Design teams

Develop DCF models to improve and determine the viability of the investment

Provide narrative for capital approvals with thorough financial analysis of cost savings for construction projections

Maintain database for start up projects

Works with a variety of data sources. Identifies incomplete or inaccurate data, identifies root causes of data issues, escalates discrepancies, fixes data where possible or partners to deliver a solution.

Uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjusts style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly.

Identifies and implements solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes.

Makes thoughtful time management decisions independently. Prioritizes work, resolves issues, meets deadlines, and seeks feedback from your manager.

Discerns between urgent and non-urgent issues and acts accordingly to solve them.

Drives own self-development in the Finance Community: seeks opportunities to expand finance expertise.

Participates in events, initiatives, and projects, then shares gained knowledge in and outside of your team.

Contributes to work life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members as an indicator of operations excellence.

Basic Qualifications

* 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

* Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field

* 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience

* 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience

Preferred Qualifications

* 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

* MBA, or CPA

* Knowledge of Tableau

* Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)

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