Analyst, Energy & Sustainability

About the role

Vornado's Sustainability group is seeking a full-time Analyst to work in the New York office. The Analyst will support the Vice President, Engineering with utility and emissions data analysis across the portfolio, and will be the Company's source of record for energy consumption and greenhouse gas data. Every energy and emissions figure Vornado reports — to investors, to regulators, to rating agencies, and to the U.S. EPA — originates with this position. The Analyst is responsible for the accuracy, completeness, and auditability of that data, and for preparing it into the submissions and applications the Company files each year. The Analyst also serves as Vornado's primary point of contact with the EPA's ENERGY STAR program. As a fully integrated REIT, sustainability at Vornado reaches across all divisions, including development, operations, leasing, capital markets, acquisitions, accounting and finance, legal, marketing, and risk management. The Analyst will work regularly with Property Management, building engineering teams, Accounting, and outside consultants, and will handle utility data requests from across the Company. The successful candidate is rigorous with data, comfortable working from incomplete or inconsistent source records, and able to explain analytical results clearly to colleagues who are not analysts. This is a strong role for someone who wants deep, defensible expertise in commercial real estate energy and carbon accounting.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the portfolio-wide utility dataset across all fuels and commodities — electricity, district steam, natural gas, fuel oil, and water — for landlord-controlled, whole-building, and tenant-metered accounts.
• Account for consumption at the meter and account level; identify and resolve data gaps, estimated reads, duplicate accounts, rate class changes, and meter reconfigurations.
• Track portfolio and building-level performance against the Company's reduction targets, including occupancy adjustment and weather normalization on a heating and cooling degree day basis.
• Reconcile utility billing records against ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager and internal Company systems; investigate and document all variances.
• Build and maintain the analytical workbooks and recurring reporting the Vice President, Engineering and the Chief Sustainability Officer rely on.
• Support the Vice President, Engineering on measurement and verification of capital projects by preparing normalized baseline and post