Director/VP of Financial Strategy & Operations

Areas of Responsibilities & Job Requirements:

Forecasting and Business Planning

• Lead the company’s long-term financial forecasting process by coordinating with all departments to determine future revenue and expense projections, capital needs, and cash flows
  • Develop a comprehensive multi-year projection model down to net cash flow, including projections of both Book/GAAP Income and Taxable Income
  • Coordinate with business teams to track anticipated incoming and outgoing cash flows for predevelopment expenditures, investments, loans and other activities
  • Produce consolidated projections on a quarterly basis
• Lead the annual budget and business plan process and related presentation materials for senior leadership, collaborating with accounting teams and business teams to ensure cohesive presentation of business plans and reforecasts
• Prepare consolidated monthly management reporting packages for the senior management team, communicating budget performance, key metrics, revenue, and EBITDA analysis at business line levels and consolidated level
• Develop and maintain models to evaluate profitability of business lines, and collaborate with business teams to provide fact-based recommendations for improving profitability

• Improve operating teams’ understanding of financial statements and budget adherence with thoughtful and transparent analysis and reporting
• Maintain and provide portfolio investment information to aid in the completion of business forecasts and other planning deliverables 

Reporting and Investor & Lender Relations

• Maintain list of corporately owned investments and entities, and coordinate with other internal teams to ensure ownership is correctly reflected in our systems
• Develop and maintain project-level financial analyses of corporate financial performance across business lines, and maintain our historical financial track record information
• Assist investors/lenders in their underwriting and recurring reviews of our business and corporate financials
• Create investor/lender decks, deal case studies and other presentation materials, and assist with ad hoc investor/lender information requests
• Assist in the management and oversight of select investment vehicles, including fund level waterfall calculations, capital call calculations, and distribution amount calculations
• Perform valuations of investments as needed

Financial Operations

• Identify opportunities to design new and/or refine existing analyses and processes to improve the business’ operational capacity over time, including automation of reporting from various internal software platforms and creation of financial and operational reporting dashboards
• Develop and manage a consolidated approach to treasury management and cash management across all companies, including the creation of policies and procedures
• Lead special projects related to financial operations across the company, including treasury and financial/accounting infrastructure and methods
• Contribute to deal structuring process, including providing input on considerations related to legal entities, taxes, and operational efficiency  
• Develop a risk framework for the company and assist in the management of risk committee
• Assist with presentations for senior leadership, including gathering data, formulating analyses and analytics, and explaining trends and results
• Assist with onboarding new software platforms and maintaining data accuracy in onboarded software
• Analyze and provide recommendations for interest rate hedging when appropriate

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong financial modeling skills (Excel)
• Ability to produce board-level presentation materials in Powerpoint
• Experience with corporate budgeting and forecasting software preferred
• Experience with Power BI preferred
• Experience with Treasury/Cash Management preferred
• Willingness to embrace complexity and thrive on new challenges
• Extremely versatile, accustomed to “wearing many hats” and shifting between them
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment that requires execution of recurring deliverables as well as projects and initiatives in support of a growing business
• Self-motivated and proactive with an established track record of getting things done effectively and independently
• Comfortable navigating and analyzing transaction legal documents, financial projections and financial reports
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to work under pressure
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent problem solving / judgment skills

Educational Requirements:

• BS in Finance, Real Estate, or Engineering preferred
• MBA preferred

Years of Industry Experience Required:

• 8+ years of relevant experience within the real estate industry