Global Real Estate Finance – Financial Analysis Vp

The Global Real Estate (GRE) Finance team sits within Corporate Sector Finance. It is comprised of finance professionals across the globe who are accountable for managing both the expense & capital components of the GRE function, ensuring a sound control environment, measuring performance, providing value-adding analyses, and presenting information and ideas to senior management within Global Real Estate, to the major lines of business, and to the various Firm-wide finance teams who roll up the results of the entire corporation. The team covers all aspects of the Firm's real estate portfolio including, but not limited to, space management, property management, lease administration, design & construction, and sustainability projects.

Job Responsibilities:

• Facilitate prompt turn-around to support various strategy and transaction requirements
• Drive process improvement & maintain oversight of model user tools
• Develop positive working relationships with GRE functional partners to maintain an open environment for collaboration
• Prepare business case analyses for: new leases, lease renewals, stay vs. relocate, lease vs. buy, new developments, dispositions, and large multi-year investment strategies
• Transactions Underwriting & Analysis
• Analyze Data, repot on key operational / financial metrics & provide recommendations to enhance financial and operational performance of the portfolio
• Perform high level assessment of construction budgets/ project cost schedules and communicate impact on P&L to relevant stakeholders
• Evaluate & benchmark GRE's performance via analysis of operating expenses, space usage, project management, transactional efficiency, overall real estate vision, etc.
• Other Strategic Analytics
• Perform thoughtful due diligence and underwriting of real estate transactions and ensure compliance to US GAAP and JPMC accounting policies (incl. balance sheet, income statement, cash view)
• Prepare high level initial P&L analysis / summaries to help team to hone in on driving financial assumptions; structure analysis to provide sensitivities of driving assumptions
• Evaluation of prospective real estate initiatives involving ownership/leasing, capital investment and occupancy strategies associated with JPMC’s corporate and retail (branch) real estate portfolio
• Understand complexities & report on line of business occupancy allocations

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Bachelor's degree in business related discipline
• Expert with Microsoft Office suite, Argus; proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to analyze data, process information and work under minimal supervision
• Organizational ability - Ability to handle numerous deliverables simultaneously, many with critical deadlines. Candidate must be comfortable with frequently changing priorities
• Ability to maintain composure in a fast-paced environment and prioritize projects accordingly
• Sound judgment and independent decision making are required
• 7+ years of real estate, finance and/or accounting experience preferred
• Communication skills - Ability to communicate succinctly and efficiently, comfortable interacting with senior business/Corporate leaders