Finance Manager (61519)

Description

Position Summary

The finance manager will report to the AVP Financial Planning, and Analysis. Responsibilities will include long range strategic planning, portfolio repositioning, optimization of corporate software forecasting/budgeting tools, integration of AI, and leveraging financial insights to influence executive leaders across various divisions to achieve financial goals. The Finance Manager will play a critical role in assessing property portfolio strategy, targeting refinancing/restructuring opportunities, lender/investor outreach, and liaison with development and asset management team by providing expertise in the areas of financial modeling, scenario planning, sensitivity and what-if analysis, and multi-year projections. The Finance Manager will also be responsible for managing the consolidated and business line budgets to ensure sound and consistent financial compliance. This position requires a process-minded and accomplished finance professional with consistent results in dynamic, high-growth real estate business.

Finance Manager

• Serve as a strategic business partner to the AVP FPA and CFO on a wide range of financial, strategic, operational, organizational topics, and real estate portfolio repositioning. Interface with peers and senior management to evaluate and advise on the financial impact of short and long-term strategic and operational plans. Provide financial and business decision support and help evaluate new growth opportunities to sustainably scale the business.
• Support Finance team with annual forecast, long range strategic plan, and budgeting processes.
• Provide support to budget owners and division heads acting as a subject matter expert and providing guidance during the budgeting/forecasting/long-range planning processes.
• Review, identify and analyze the consolidated and business line budget and variances to actual results, synthesize findings to the senior management team and budget owners, and recommend actions to improve performance.
• Provide support and insight as we evaluate the use of AI and creating operational efficiencies and improving the overall financial stability of the Company
• Refine and regularly update financial dashboards for the Executive Team and Board of Directors
• Support business model planning such as new business or acquisition valuation, divestiture of an existing line, scenario and sensitivity planning, and forward-looking analysis.
• Design dynamic models for business lines to handle assumption changes, sensitivity analyses, and other what-if analyses and scenarios.
• Support Implementation of budgeting and analysis tools as a critical step to add visibility, organization, and speed to the finance function.
• Drive an efficient, effective, and comprehensive process for developing our annual and long-range financial plans and analyses that link to strategic objectives.
• Communicate risks, opportunities, and assumptions clearly.
• Partner with business leaders to drive performance across the organization in areas of top line growth and operating effectiveness and leverage. Evaluate business performance relative to expectations.
• Support delivery of timely, accurate, and effective analysis and reporting of financial and operational performance metrics
• Help drive benchmarking against competitors and frameworks for promoting growth and profitability.
• Work closely with the accounting and finance teams on performance vs actuals.
• Play a key role in helping refine capital structure and balance sheet, including priorities, capital allocation, liquidity management and financing. Work with the AVP, Finance/CFO to enhance our cash flow model and projections.
• Work with the CFO and executive leadership team to develop scripts, talking points, presentations and other communications strategies and materials that clearly illustrate the Company's revenue model, strategy and performance.
• Special projects as designated by EVP/Chief Financial Officer or designee
  
  

Qualifications

Equivalent Education, Experiences, Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:

• - 7 years of experience
• - Deep understanding of real estate with strong preference for experience in affordable housing.
• - Demonstrated expertise in financial analysis skills and projections.
• - Experience with real estate transactions building sources/uses, proforma’s, supporting due diligence investor/lender requests
• - Experience building complex pro-forma finance models as part of company forecasting and reporting.
• - Ability to work in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial culture
• - Ability and willingness to dive deep into details.
• - Executive-level communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills in both formal and informal settings.
• - Commitment to diversity and inclusion and a belief that diverse teams bring better business and customer outcomes.
• - Demonstrated ability to build relationships and communicate with peers, subordinates, senior management, lenders and investors.
  
  

Core Competencies For This Role

• Working with People: Demonstrates an interest in and understanding of others; adapts to the team and builds team spirit; recognizes and rewards the contribution of others; listens, consults others and communicates proactively; supports and cares for others; develops and openly communicates self-insight.
• Presenting & Communicating Information: Speaks clearly and fluently; expresses opinions, information, and key points of an argument clearly; makes presentations and undertakes public speaking with skill and confidence; responds quickly to the needs of an audience and to their reactions and feedback.
• Planning & Organizing: Sets clearly defined objectives; plans activities and projects well in advance and takes account of possible changing circumstances; manages time effectively; identifies and organizes resources needed to accomplish tasks; monitors performance against deadlines and milestones.
• Adapting & Responding to change: Adapts to changing circumstances; accepts new ideas and change initiatives; adapts interpersonal style to suit different people or situations; shows respect and sensitivity towards differences; deals with ambiguity, making positive use of the opportunities it presents
• Analyzing: Analyzes numerical data, verbal data and all other sources of information; Breaks information into component parts, patterns and relationships; Probes for further information or greater understanding of a problem; Makes rational judgements from the available information and analysis; Produces workable solutions to a range of problems; Demonstrates an understanding of how one issue may be a part of a much larger system