Director, Financial Planning & Analysis
AlliedAbout the role
About Allied
Allied is a leading owner-operator of distinctive urban workspace in Canada’s major cities. Our work is grounded in a clear purpose: to provide knowledge-based organizations with distinctive urban environments that support creativity, connectivity and human wellness.
Our vision is more expansive. We seek to make a continuous contribution to cities and culture that elevates and inspires the humanity in all of us. This vision informs how we operate, how we design and how we lead.
Real estate, for us, is not a passive investment. It is a profoundly human endeavour, one that must promote wellness, sustainability, diversity and creativity—today and for generations to come.
Allied is also a place to build a career of consequence. If you are looking for work that is thoughtful, tangible and enduring—work that contributes meaningfully to cities and the people who inhabit them—you will find purpose here.
For more information on Allied’s approach to city-building, visit our Insights page.
Purpose
Lead Allied’s financial planning, forecasting, performance analysis and management reporting activities. As Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), you will lead budgeting and forecasting processes, develop long-term financial plans and provide analysis of financial and operating performance across Allied’s portfolio and corporate functions.
You will work closely with Property Accounting, Corporate Accounting, Investments, Leasing, Operations and other business functions to translate financial and operational information into meaningful insights, identify emerging risks and opportunities and support informed decision-making.
As a key member of the Finance leadership team, you will serve as a strategic business partner to senior leaders and help strengthen financial planning, analytical capabilities and financial discipline across the organization. This role is well suited to a collaborative and forward-looking finance leader with strong financial modelling and analytical capabilities and a commitment to developing people and building high-performing teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead budgeting and forecasting processes across the organization, establishing timelines, assumptions and requirements in partnership with key stakeholders.
- Develop and own consolidated financial forecasts and multi-year financial plans.
- Establish and track key performance indicators related to occupancy, leasing, operating performance, capital expenditures, financing and other business drivers.
- Develop scenario and sensitivity analyses to assess the financial implications of changing business and market conditions.
- Continuously enhance planning and forecasting processes to improve accuracy, efficiency and business insight.
- Lead the preparation of monthly and quarterly management reporting for senior leadership.
- Analyze actual financial performance relative to budget, forecast and prior periods, identifying key drivers of variances.
- Analyze key performance indicators, including funds from operations (FFO), adjusted funds from operations (AFFO) and related financial and operating metrics.
- Identify emerging trends, risks and opportunities and communicate their potential financial impact to senior leadership.
- Develop and maintain dashboards, scorecards and other reporting tools that provide clear visibility into organizational performance.
- Lead the development of financial and performance reporting for the Board of Trustees and its committees.
- Lead the development and maintenance of Allied’s long-term financial model.
- Assess the impact of changes in occupancy, leasing activity, rental rates, interest rates, capital expenditures, development activity and other key business assumptions.
- Model the financial implications of potential acquisitions, dispositions, developments and other strategic initiatives in partnership with Investments and other business functions.
- Evaluate alternative financial scenarios and provide recommendations to support strategic planning and capital allocation decisions.
- Provide financial analysis and recommendations to the Chief Financial Officer and senior leader
Financial Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting
Performance Analysis and Management Reporting
Long-Term Financial Planning and Strategic Analysis
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