Financial Analyst, Worldwide Real Estate

About the role

We are seeking a strategic finance professional passionate about partnering with our business team focused on WW Real Estate. This role will partner closely with a broad range of Finance and business leaders in Operations, Engineering, and Technology.

Responsibilities

• Obtain model input variables from Pre-Construction and Design teams
• Develop DCF models to improve and determine the viability of the investment
• Provide narrative for capital approvals with thorough financial analysis of cost savings for construction projections
• Maintain database for start up projects
• Works with a variety of data sources. Identifies incomplete or inaccurate data, identifies root causes of data issues, escalates discrepancies, fixes data where possible or partners to deliver a solution.
• Uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner.
• Adjusts style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly.
• Identifies and implements solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes.
• Makes thoughtful time management decisions independently.
• Prioritizes work, resolves issues, meets deadlines, and seeks feedback from your manager.
• Discerns between urgent and non-urgent issues and acts accordingly to solve them.
• Drives own self-development in the Finance Community: seeks opportunities to expand finance expertise.
• Participates in events, initiatives, and projects, then shares gained knowledge in and outside of your team.
• Contributes to work life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members as an indicator of operations excellence.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
• 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
• 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• MBA, or CPA
• Knowledge of Tableau
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)