Real Estate Strategic Planning Manager - Irvine, CA

About the role

Strategic Planning Manager - CA Associates at California Bank & Trust work in a relationship-centered culture where they are provided with the tools, training, and opportunities to build the best possible relationships with our clients and with each other. Our workplace culture values each associate’s unique experiences, background and perspectives and provides a collaborative environment for all employees to grow and thrive. As a premier California-focused financial services company dedicated to serving its communities, families, and businesses (small, mid-sized and large), CB&T has been active for 70 years and has more than 80 full-service branch offices across the state. This dedication has helped the bank earn recognition as a perennial powerhouse in yearly voting for “Best Bank” and “Best Commercial Bank” from the readers of San Diego Union-Tribune and Orange County Register. Additionally, as a division of Zions Bancorporation, the bank has collected multiple Greenwich Excellence Awards for “Overall Client Satisfaction” in Small Business & Middle Market Excellence Awards. We are currently looking for a Real Estate Strategic Planning Manager to manage and support our Commercial Real Estate projects and programs. The right candidate will deliver reporting, forecasting, and executive-level insights that support the Commercial Real Estate (CRE) business. This role combines financial analysis with business intelligence, leveraging Power BI, Excel, and other Microsoft tools to provide actionable insights, automate reporting, and support strategic decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Manages and provides support for projects and programs, initiatives and strategic planning for those projects and programs.
• Supports the bank’s strategic planning with analytics and reporting for the CRE Division.
• Conduct cost center, department, and divisional business reviews to evaluate financial performance and identify trends.
• Determines the scope and approach of the analysis to best support the business need, which may include dashboards, reports and scorecards.
• Provide reporting and analytical support across business divisions and partner with business leaders, relationship managers, and credit teams.
• Support enterprise-wide CRE reporting needs and provide analysis to business partners and executive leadership.
• Design, develop, and maintain Power BI dashboards, scorecards, and custom reporting solutions that communicate performance metrics and strategic insights.
• Build end-to-end reporting solutions using Power BI, DAX, Power Query, and advanced Excel tools.
• Extract, transform, validate, and analyze data from multiple source systems, including Business Objects, Salesforce, Power BI datasets, and internal banking platforms.
• Develop executive-level presentations and business reviews using PowerPoint and other Microsoft tools.
• Present complex financial and operational data in a concise and meaningful format for senior leadership.
• Performs project planning, risk assessments, requirements discovery, resource assignments and all related program management activities.
• Identifies opportunities to automate business processes and improve reporting accuracy through technology solutions.
• Facilitates decision making.
• May be responsible to manage a staff, including hiring, firing and performance reviews.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Requires a Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Finance, Analytics or related field
• 4+ years of experience in Financial Analysis, Business Intelligence, Data Analytics or similar role.
• Extensive knowledge of financial analysis, strategic planning, business analysis, preferably in the banking/finance industry.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including Pivot Tables and Power Query.
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint for executive-level presentations.
• Experience with Power BI preferred.