FP&A Financial Planning & Analysis Manager (Large Real Estate)

Main duties, tasks, and responsibilities:

• Create / update financial feasibility studies for new and running projects, calculating the main financial KPIs (NPV, IRR, PBP, GPM, Funding Gap, etc.)
• Implement sensitivity analysis and “what if scenarios” for financial modeling to analyze different values of a set of independent variables affect the projects’ financial performance. 
• Providing commercial insight and analysis of results, identifying underlying trends and challenging the business on performance.
• Responsibility for producing accurate and timely management reports, including an analysis of sales and operational expenditure.
• Supporting decision-making by providing stakeholders with timely, detailed, and meaningful insights and visibility on business performance.
• Provide financial insights to support the business decision-making processes.
• Suggest improvements by preparing and analyzing detailed flowcharts related to key business processes.
• Review and analyze the financial reporting practices and come up with proposed changes for better reporting of product costing, building up more accurate segment P&L’s, and working out reliable Cost to Serve / Deliver reports.
• Participate in verifying the reliability of business forecasts being prepared across Divisional / BU functions, assess the reasonableness of these, and gauge the level of cross-functional / inter-business unit integration.
• Assist the Finance Director in benchmarking the affiliates’ performance against world-class standards of similar businesses.
• Help set up financial performance KPIs across BU functions.
• Support the standardization of key accounting policies/practices across the company enhance the affiliates’ financial reporting.
• Adopting a partner/challenger role in evaluating business plans.
• Ensuring the integrity of financial data supplied by the financial accounting team to other areas of the business and to external stakeholders.
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Qualifications:

• knowledge of accounting standards and procedures, especially those related to the real estate industry and performance management and reporting.
• Advanced user of SAP/Oracle ERP system with previous exposure to the application within the real estate industry.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking combined with keenness on achieving short term goals.
• Structured mindset, skillful in managing the resources of interlinked, complex projects.
• Strong analytical, conceptual, and planning skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively across departmental functions and to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work under pressure and show evidence of creative thinking as well as the ability to handle complex problems in a timely manner.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to work in a very high transaction volume environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business Administration, Economics, or related discipline (preference goes to AUC/GUC graduates).
• Professional certification or advanced degree in finance (CMA, FMVA or similar)
• 7+ years of overall combined corporate finance & planning experience.
• At least 3-4 years of recent experience within the real estate industry.