Associate Director

Responsible for managing the annual budget preparation, coordination, and forecast process. Seeking a high-quality manager who can work independently and contribute by offering his/her own ideas to the team.

Manage bottom-up and top-down operating budget and forecast development for business segments. Work closely with the regions and the system team to ensure all budget assumptions in the budget tool are accurate including validation work. Ensure the regions submit on time and meet deadlines.

Analyze trends/variances and identify business drivers behind the numbers for executive summaries and analytics.

Assists with board packs, earnings preparation packs and supplemental schedules.

Evaluate processes and reporting inconsistencies across segments and recommend solutions.

Responsible for managing broad range of complex ad hoc financial analysis and financial reporting activities.

Work closely with the TM1 systems team and contribute ideas on how to improve analysis and reporting for end users.

Develops and writes procedure manuals, and budget reference manuals.

Manage 2 Senior Financial Analysts and review their work for accuracy. 

QUALIFICATIONS

Education - Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university and 5-7 years related experience, or combination of equivalent education and experience in accounting and finance.

Communication Skills- Ability to read, analyze and interpret financial reports. Ability to respond to inquiries or complaints from internal customers or management. Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information to and respond to questions from groups of managers or other internal customers.

Mathematical Skills - Ability to work with and apply mathematical concepts.

Reasoning Ability - Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of instructions in written or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

System Skills - Strong financial systems expertise. Familiarity with IBM TM1, HFM and PeopleSoft is ideal but not a requirement. However, strong knowledge of planning tools used in prior roles is essential.

Other Skills and Abilities - Very strong or advanced knowledge of spreadsheet software, preferably Excel. Extremely detail oriented, well organized, high standard of accuracy and ability to multi-task. Knowledge of real estate service industry and terminology helpful.

Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer Women/Minorities/Persons with Disabilities/US Veterans