Senior Associate - Finance and Data, Cruise

Our Vision: To make New York City the global model for inclusive innovation and economic growth, fueled by the City’s diverse people and businesses.   

Our Mission: Creating a vibrant, inclusive, and globally competitive economy for all New Yorkers. 

Position Overview: 

This is an exciting opportunity for a business-minded individual to join the growing Cruise portfolio team as we foster economic growth and position the portfolio as a leader in environmental sustainability and socially responsible urban tourism.  

This is critical role will focus on the Cruise portfolio’s operating and capital budgets, manage financial and operational data sets, assist with financial modeling and scenario analysis and maintain an understanding and fluency in all financial and data-driven aspects of the Cruise portfolio’s agreements. 

This is a new role within the Cruise portfolio’s team of four staff. It reports directly to the Vice President of Cruise. It will work across departments within Asset Management, including Development, Operations, Strategic Analytics, Energy, and Design and Construction. The role will also work across EDC divisions, including Planning, Legal, External Affairs and Finance.   

Responsibilities:

• Support the vision and strategy for the Cruise portfolio. Lead on specific action plans and workstreams to achieve the goals and objectives of the Cruise portfolio within Asset Management’s Ports, Waterfront and Transportation Department. 
• Implement systems for efficient operational performance across the Cruise portfolio including the management of annual budgets, quarterly and monthly financial reports, variance analyses and other data analysis,  
• Work with cruise lines and operators and fellow Cruise portfolio staff to gather, analyze, and report out on key cruise metrics, including berthing utilization, shore power utilization, employment and transportation data such as ridership by mode, and traffic volumes; additionally supervise regular passenger surveys for supplemental data.  
• Support business development efforts with quantitative analysis to support negotiating agreements to enhance the portfolio's financial performance and market competitiveness. 
• Work across the Asset Management Department and the organization to develop, justify and coordinate processes, analysis and strategies for managing capital projects and securing capital funding. 
• Support general asset management responsibilities, including tenant communications, evaluation of tenant financial reports, and oversight of lease pipelines, lease expirations, arrears and collections, insurance issues, litigation, and other asset management tasks as assigned. 
• Participate in the financial underwriting of proposed investments and the building of financial models for potential redevelopment and other large-investment scenarios.  
• Leverage experience to implement strategies to enhance decision-making and risk mitigation and ensure regulatory compliance. 
• Flex between leading interdepartmental project teams as the core project manager and supporting other interdepartmental projects teams as a valuable team member.  
• Support measures to optimize and report out on asset utilization and profitability compared with industry benchmarks. 
• Undertake any additional duties as assigned by the VP of Cruise and at times may be called upon to provide coverage for other Cruise portfolio staff. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, public, urban development or a related field; Master’s Degree in related field preferred 
• At least 3-5 years of work experience in real estate, finance, public policy, transportation, real estate redevelopment, asset management, and/or strategic consulting 
• Demonstrated interest and excitement for implementing environmentally and socially responsible initiatives related to electrical shore power, other renewable energy solutions, infrastructure and sustainable urban tourism 
• Interest in the cruise industry 
• Experience with private or public planning and development processes, especially in NYC preferred 
• Proven project management and financial analysis skills 
• Experience with PowerBi (or similar) for data analysis and Excel for financial analysis 
• Demonstrated written, visual and verbal communication skills 
• Proactive “self-starter” and “team player” who is enterprising and