Job Title: Senior Manager, Real Estate Analytics
Location: Toronto, ON M5X 1A1 (Hybrid – 2 days/week onsite)
Duration: 8 months
Contract Type: T4 only
Pay Rate: CA$52.41/Hour
Working hours: 37.5/week
Role Mandate:

• The Corporate Real Estate Finance team works cross-functionally with various teams to provides the business with financial support for real estate planning and transactions.
• We are looking for an experienced and collaborative Senior Manager, Real Estate Analytics to join our Finance team.
• This role is critical in supporting strategic decision-making across our real estate portfolio. The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in real estate accounting and financial analysis, along with strong coordination skills and ability to lead cross-functional initiatives.

Role Responsibilities:

• Receive requests from Real Estate including property information and lease terms. Use existing model to conduct financial analysis to review impact based on business.
• Work with transaction team to asses viability of strategies and execute new leases
• Manage hand-off meetings when strategies are implemented to review outcome and financial variances
• Lead the analysis of real estate assets, portfolios, and investments to support strategic planning and operational decisions.
• Interpret and ensure accurate financial reporting for real estate transactions in compliance with applicable accounting standards (e.g., IFRS, GAAP).
• Develop and maintain financial models to evaluate property performance, capital expenditures, and scenario analysis.
• Collaborate extensively with teams across controllership, transactions, project management and finance to consolidate insights and drive outcomes.
• Prepare executive-level presentations and reporting to support planning, performance monitoring and strategic initiatives.
• May network with industry contacts to gain competitive insights and best practices.
• Works with stakeholders to establish priorities.
• May own internal/external stakeholder relationships
• Oversees the process to coordinate & analyze the financial and operational highlights of the business for reporting, planning and forecasting requirements
• Influences and negotiates to achieve business objectives; ensures solutions are aligned with business and enterprise goals.
• Recommends and implements financial management solutions based on analysis of issues and implications for the business.
• Works with the business to align key performance indicators with financial forecasts/plans and initiatives.
• Assists in the development of strategic plans; assessment of opportunities; determines the financial impact of initiatives/strategic decisions.
• Identifies emerging issues and trends to inform decision-making.
• Breaks down strategic problems, and analyses data and information to provide Financial-related insights and recommendations.
• Acts as liaison between stakeholders in order to align agendas and ensure a clear understanding of the business context.
• Supports development and execution of strategic initiatives in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Builds change management plans of varying scope and type; leads or participates in a variety of change management activities including readiness assessments, planning, stakeholder management, execution, evaluation and sustainment of initiatives.
• Operates at a group/enterprise-wide level and serves as a specialist resource to senior leaders and stakeholders.
• Applies expertise and thinks creatively to address unique or ambiguous situations and to find solutions to problems that can be complex and non-routine.
• Implements changes in response to shifting trends.

Team Structure:

• The selected contractor will work with another team member in Corporate Real Estate Finance to focus on running strategies and ad hoc requests. Two other team members focus on budgeting. The team is integrated with a variety of other client teams and is very transparent and collaborative in nature.

Must Have Skills:

• Accounting background - flexible on level (depends on RE exp)
• Data preparation, data analysis, and statistical tool sets (Excel)
• Collaborative, people person
• Typically 7+ years of relevant experience and post-secondary degree in related field of study or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Verbal & written communication skills - In-depth / Expert.
• Analytical and problem solving skills - In-depth / Expert.
• Collaboration & team skills; with a focus on cross-group collaboration - In-depth / Expert.
• Able to manage ambiguity.
• Data driven decision making - In-depth / Expert.

Nice to Have Skills:

• Real Estate accounting experience
• Spotfire, Tableau, PowerBI
• Banking/FI experience
• Accounting designation preferred
• Influence skills - In-depth / Expert