Financial Analyst

Job Title

Financial Analyst

Job Description Summary

Under supervision, develop, prepare, and distribute internal managerial reporting in support of business intelligence analysis and strategic planning. Manipulate and organize data to provide meaningful views that will assist with analysis and decision making. Respond to ad hoc reporting requests as needed to provide senior management with insights required to make informed business decisions. Specialized functional background, such as finance/accounting would provide a large advantage for candidate to better understand and support departmental requirements.

Job Description

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: • Coordinate data feed of operational and financial data from internal systems, departments, and other key staff. • Consolidate and distribute informative reporting and analysis, including forward looking pipeline opportunities as well as historical asset/market performance. Create templates or other data collection/distribution tools as needed. • Responsible for ensuring integrity, consistency, and accuracy of data. • Interpret and utilize reporting to look beyond presented problems and identify potential areas of improvement.

• Assess current methods and provide management with recommendations of changes to processes leading to increased efficiency. • Assist in the research of new reporting/dashboard tools. Work with the business intelligence team to develop requirements/user stories. Aid in the introduction and training as new tools are deployed to the field. • Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize multiple project streams efficiently and diplomatically in a fast-paced and highly matrixed environment while maintaining positive relationships with internal customers. • Interface with BI team, finance and accounting, operations and project management personnel on various projects, as needed. • Presentations to senior management, supervisors and asset services team members, as required. • Other duties as may be assigned.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES: • Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills. • Background and knowledge in Commercial or Residential real estate preferred, but not required. • Must be detail oriented. • Advanced proficiency in MS Office, specifically Microsoft Excel (data organization, data manipulation, pivot tables), Microsoft PowerPoint and Power BI.

• Ability to pull and comprehend Financial / operational reports from Workday and other internal systems / dashboards.

• Ability to work with an analytical lens in independent situations and in team situations. • Strong organizational, interpersonal, and multi-tasking skills

EDUCATION /EXPERIENCE: Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite. Ability to learn and master property management software / dashboards. • Maintains confidence and protects operations of business by keeping information confidential. • Bachelor’s degree required. Specialized functional area such as finance or accounting preferred. • Real estate organization/management operations experience preferred.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Candidate must be able to focus and stay fully engaged with regular or unscheduled interruptions within an online environment.

• Must be able to participate in daily meetings fully and effectively with departmental team or internal clients.

• Potential for very infrequent travel for training / meetings

• Ability to perform other duties as required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: • Ability to frequently, and sometimes for long periods of time, sit, stand, climb and descend stairs • Must be able to bend, crouch, kneel, or stoop on occasion. • Must have sufficient up-close and distance vision.

Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health, vision, and dental insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life, and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, Cushman and Wakefield provide eligible employees with competitive pay, which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, total hours worked, job type, business line, and applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on factors such as whether the position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement, the geographic area in which the work will be performed, market pay rates in that area, and the candidate’s experience and qualifications.
The company will not pay less than minimum wage for this role.
The compensation for the position is: $63,750.00 - $75,000.00Cushman & Wakefield provides equal employment opportunity. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated. Cushman & Wakefield is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative​ Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.

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