Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis

About the position

The Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis will participate heavily in the FP&A team’s technology infrastructure efforts. The Analyst will spend most of their time assisting as a business representative for internal and external project work, acting as a business tester and project participant representing FP&A, and partnering with Technology department on troubleshooting issues with Forecasting Applications. The FP&A team operates in a time sensitive and critical output environment therefore attention to detail and ability to perform under pressure is critical.

Responsibilities

• Support the reforecasting and budgeting process and participate in various workstreams to assist with the team effort to finalize a quarterly reforecast and annual budget.
• Work closely with the teams across the organization to ensure cross-unit collaboration and to support FP&A forecasting efforts.
• Provide support for software testing, documentation, roll out, communication and assist in project management for applications that support FP&A’s forecasting process and reporting.
• Understand and master a multitude of financial systems and processes to provide support and training as needed.
• Document and update FP&A workstreams.
• Develop value add tools and assist in system and process improvement projects as needed.
• Work with large quantities of data and master ability to analyze and audit results.
• Understand the Budgeting & Forecasting systems process and play an important role in training and assisting the FP&A team during the Budgeting & Forecasting process.

Requirements

• 1-3 years work experience in Accounting or Finance within the commercial real estate industry.
• Experience working at a publicly traded real estate or financial services firm is preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, Accounting, or Finance required.
• A strong work ethic, with an ability to work in a dynamic and demanding work environment to meet critical deadlines.
• Intelligence, with a keen focus on details.
• Strong accounting and finance knowledge.
• Exceptional analytical skills with a deep knowledge of and mastery of Office 365, especially Excel.
• Prior experience with real estate budgeting/forecasting processes and systems such as Argus Enterprise or Yardi Forecast Manager.
• Oracle, SQL or another relational database applications a plus.
• Possess broad understanding of computer concepts and related business application needs.
• Familiarity with data warehouses, data lakes, snowflake.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills due to interaction with personnel at all levels.
• Knowledge of REIT performance metrics and reporting preferred.