FP&A Analyst - Atlanta, GA

About the position

As a Financial Analyst, you will support the Director of Property Financial Planning & Analysis (FPA) in directing and guiding the entire annual budgeting and forecasting process for over 240+ individual properties across the Cortland operating platform.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a liaison between the Operations, Accounting, Compliance, and Investments departments to ensure that annual budgets are prepared for all 240+ owned and managed properties across Cortland's US platform in accordance with GAAP and all applicable fund, joint venture, and property asset management agreements.
• Serve as support staff for the property-level budget budgeting tool (Adaptive), including assigning rights to end users, setting up new properties, troubleshooting errors, training new users, and enhancing the system.
• Manage a suite of reports in Adaptive to support the budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis for our portfolio.
• Work with the Operations and Investments teams to identify ways to automate certain budget inputs within Adaptive to create efficiencies, to reduce manual data entry/redundancies, and to allow scalability as Cortland continues to acquire new assets.
• Stay current on business transactions that affect the overall business, including acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations, amendments to operating agreements, new funds and joint ventures, etc.
• Assist the Director of Property Financial Planning & Analysis with various ad hoc requests and projects as identified by upper management.
• Creation of custom reports to allow for in-depth analysis of financial information and key performance indicators to help management understand overall property-level financial performance.
• Meet with department heads and executives across the various business units within the Cortland platform to better understand the overall business and how their initiatives impact the property-level budgets.
• Work with our internal Data Analytics team to ensure data integrity between Adaptive and other data platforms.
• Regularly review budget vs. actual reports to identify areas of improvement within the budgeting process and to assist with the creation of a unified approach to explaining variances across the platform.
• Work with the accounting team to reclassify revenue and expense items within the general ledger to ensure consistent financial presentation for comparison purposes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance required.
• Real estate experience is a plus.
• 2+ years of overall experience required.
• Understanding of GAAP accounting.
• Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and time-management skills.
• Excellent communication skills that will allow you to interact with team members across all areas of the company.
• The ability to 'think outside of the box' and question the status quo to allow for process improvement and automation.
• Extraordinary attention to detail while performing multiple assignments under tight deadlines.
• Proficiency in Excel and other Microsoft Office programs.
• Some light travel may be required on occasion.