Financial Analyst

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Job Title: Financial Analyst – NY Accounts Platform, CRE Brokerage

Location: New York, NY (onsite at both JLL headquarters and client office)

Job Type: Full-time

What this job involves – The Financial Analyst will join JLL’s top-performing New York Accounts Platform (Brokerage) supporting one of our top-tier commercial real estate portfolio and transaction management teams. In this role, you will advise, service and support the execution of both office and data center transactions across a Fortune 500 global financial services firm’s Americas portfolio. You’ll contribute to high-impact brokerage initiatives under the guidance of JLL leadership and alongside some of the industry’s most accomplished professionals.

You will leverage your advanced analytical, financial modeling, and solid understanding of accounting principles to create and update models to evaluate portfolio strategies, perform financial due diligence, and synthesize findings into concise recommendations for both client and internal senior leadership.

The ideal candidate is an Excel power user with a solid understanding of GAAP accounting principles, who is comfortable working independently while multitasking in a high-volume, fast-paced environment. Reliability, first-class business communication and organizational skills are essential.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Prepares complex financial models to evaluate potential portfolio opportunities. Models could potentially include project and portfolio level performance and structured finance.
• Create financial models to evaluate strategies with operating costs/revenue and potential savings/cost avoidance.
• Update financial models with actual cost data across deal progression.
• Work with senior leadership to resolve finance and accounting related portfolio issues.
• Assist with potential opportunities financial due diligence.
• Perform rental rate analyses (e.g., NER and market performance analyses) cultivate broker relationships for assessing market information, and engineering deals for maximizing commerciality.
• Perform special projects/analysis and complete ad hoc reports, as necessary, for senior leadership.
• Clearly and concisely communicates findings to all relevant parties, summarizing and presenting findings and recommendations succinctly.
• Assist with due diligence of new acquisitions, dispositions, restructures, and/or other opportunities.
• Assist in periodic reporting and preparation of account revenue forecasts.
• Work closely with JLL Finance to regularly administer Dealio, complete month-end closings and provide monthly financial review for senior management team.
• Capable of reading, interpreting, abstracting, and analyzing real estate-related documentation (i.e., offering memorandums, leases, term sheets, LOIs and contracts).
• Capable of arriving at and applying high-level assumptions, based on JLL best practices and client customary practices to complete analyses.
• Capable of preparing clear, concise summary documentation and spreadsheets that support and explain the basis of the analyses for use in presentations, proposals and/or reports, when and if necessary.
• Interacts with Senior Management relative to the evaluation of portfolio strategies and opportunities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Interested? An ideal candidate would need to have the following qualifications and technical skills:

• Entry level to 3 years of real estate financial analyst experience
• Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in finance, real estate, accounting or a related program.
• Solid understanding of GAAP accounting principles and application.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel required. Understanding of Excel VBA a plus.
• Outstanding attention to detail, and superlative audit and quantitative skills.
• Able to work independently, with utmost reliability and organization.
• Demonstrated professionalism, energy, and a positive, solutions-oriented attitude.
• First-class verbal and written communication skills.

If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet all the requirements. We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

Personalized benefits that support personal well-being and growth:

JLL recognizes the impact that the workplace can have on your wellness, so we offer a supportive culture and comprehensive benefits package that prioritizes mental, physical and emotional health. Some of these benefits may include:

• 401(k) plan with matching company contributions
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision Care
• Paid parental leave at 100% of salary
• Paid Time Off and Company Holidays

This position does not provide visa sponsorship. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Expected compensation for this position

80,000.00 – 90,000.00 USD per year

Final compensation packages are determined by various considerations including but not limited to candidate qualifications, location, market conditions, and internal considerations.

Location

On-site –New York, NY

If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet all the requirements. We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

Personalized benefits that support personal well-being and growth:

JLL recognizes the impact that the workplace can have on your wellness, so we offer a supportive culture and comprehensive benefits package that prioritizes mental, physical and emotional health. Some of these benefits include:

• 401(k) plan with matching company contributions
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision Care
• Paid parental leave at 100% of salary
• Paid Time Off and Company Holidays
• Early access to earned wages through Daily Pay

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