Financial Analyst Pool Manager

Job Title

Financial Analyst Pool Manager

Job Description Summary

The Capital Market Financial Analyst (“CMFA”) Pool Manager is a CMFA subject matter expert responsible for the day-to-day management of the CMFA Pool’s delivery of financial analysis on behalf of Cushman & Wakefield’s brokerage services by client product groups or regions. In this role, the CMFA Pool Manager provides oversight on the execution of financial analysis requests by providing direction, conducting quality control reviews, and lending subject matter expertise. The CMFA Manager provides oversight on team member development and performance, ensuring alignment on service delivery expectations. The CMFA Pool Manager serves as a key contributor to the CMFA Pool’s maturity with involvement in training and onboarding activities, implementing standardized workflow processes, implementing best practices, and identifying continuous improvement opportunities to ensure sustained delivery of high-quality, efficient services to Cushman & Wakefield’s brokers.
Team members may be expected to work various time zones, depending on the product type and markets they service. Remote candidates will be considered should they agree to work during the specified working hours.

Job Description

• Deliver strategic insights and recommendations to broker/broker Teams based on analysis findings; refine analyses by providing subject matter expertise on market, property, or commercial real estate conditions and trends in effort to equip brokers with value-add insights and high-quality analysis deliverables, contributing to driving successful transaction completion
• Collaborate with broker and leadership stakeholders, and other support teams, to ensure the CMFA Pool delivers an exceptional broker experience, balances team member workloads, and effectively collaborates with all business partners in service delivery, ensuring satisfactory broker experience ratings
• Monitors, tracks, and observes process and production behaviors, identifying opportunities where additional training support may be required and/or delivers insights/solutions to resolve productivity issues
• Implements effective delegation best practices, balancing involvement into the transactional analysis and due diligence aspects of team assignments
• Oversee the day-to-day operations of the CMFA Pool including supervision of direct reports and quality review of analyses, deadlines, and resolution of issues/conflicts
• Performs quality control reviews, identifying where the team’s strengths are and areas where additional training may be required. Communicates review feedback in a timely manner and identifies recurring themes observed to action into individual and/or team training and development opportunities.
• Monitor CMFA Pool and Analyst performance to identify opportunities for process/deliverable improvement and continued development
• Lead, coach, train, and develop CMFA Pool Analysts, including completion of performance evaluations
• Develop and deliver Analyst training materials to standardize onboarding and support continued development, equipping Analysts with relevant resource tools
• Spearhead the creation of standardized, best practice workflow processes and guidelines across the CMFA Pool that create efficiencies and add value to the broker experience; collaborate with broker Teams to understand current state processes and opportunities for standardization, taking ownership to action next steps
• Collaborate with technology partners to identify, implement, and maintain automation/data analysis solutions to support CMFA Pool operations (e. g., Salesforce, Argus, UiPath Process Mining)
• Actively participates in business intelligence reporting and maintenance, ensuring workflow pipeline is accurate, complete, and kept current. Ensures reporting data and analytics are accurate and complete.
• Support business development activities to encourage use of the CMFA Pool within assigned markets and/or product group(s)
• Champions the adoption of the Financial Analyst Pool, pitching value proposition and benefits to Capital Markets brokers while identifying opportunities where the Pool can support. Develops and maintains productive broker relationships
• Contributes to change management efforts and assist with managing resistance to change associated with changes to process/service delivery
• Demonstrates Cushman & Wakefield’s core values by promoting a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion; leads by example
• Performs other related duties as required or requested

Requirements:

• 5+ Years Commercial Real Estate experience
• Proficiency in Argus and Microsoft Excel
• Experience Coaching and Training Financial Analysts
• Strong understanding of Cash Flow Modeling
• Excellent Written and Verbal Communication Skills

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Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health, vision, and dental insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life, and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, Cushman and Wakefield provide eligible employees with competitive pay, which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, total hours worked, job type, business line, and applicability of collective bargaining agreements.The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on factors such as whether the position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement, the geographic area in which the work will be performed, market pay rates in that area, and the candidate’s experience and qualifications.The company will not pay less than minimum wage for this role.The compensation for the position is: $114,750.00 – $135,000.00Cushman & Wakefield provides equal employment opportunity. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated. Cushman & Wakefield is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.

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