Strategic Finance Analyst

Position Summary

Building Hope is looking for an analytical and motivated Strategic Finance Analyst to join our team. He/she will work in close collaboration with leaders across our organization to help us scale into our next phase of growth.

The Strategic Finance Analyst will be responsible for assisting with the company's short-term and long-term financial modeling and forecasting, cash liquidity management, and financial reporting to internal and external investor stakeholders. The analyst will provide financial consulting and support to leadership and will leverage systems and processes to drive accurate, reliable and insightful reporting of financial data.

Responsibilities

Financial Planning, Analysis and Reporting

• Develop, update and maintain three statement financial models to support the annual budgeting process, ongoing forecast, and long-range planning to help guide the organization's strategy.
• Track and monitor organization-wide capital and operating liquidity.
• Support analysis and reporting of all monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting for internal and external stakeholders.
• Participate in special projects, including preparation of investor/3rd party presentations and performance of ad-hoc financial analysis.
• Partner with finance team to continue building and evolving our FP&A infrastructure (including the implementation of 3rd party cloud-based planning and analysis tool, Vena).
• Assist with requests for annual audit and tax preparations.
• Develop business case ROI analysis for corporate level initiatives (e.g. business development and marketing).

Investment/Project Cash Management and Financial Support

• Regularly update the P&L and cash flow forecast based on updated property-level financials, lending, credit enhancement or real estate investments, and property dispositions or loan payoffs.
• Work alongside lending and real estate investment/project teams to serve as the Finance & Accounting team representative to support acquisitions, finance closings, sales, fundings, and partner distributions.
• Support debt lender, equity, foundation, and governmental reporting and compliance, including submission of financial statements, covenant compliance, and other ad hoc requests.
• Prepare monthly real estate investment draw packages and capital calls including updating the project budget, reconciling project invoices, compilation of draw submissions, and tracking of construction pay application information and support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting, or a related field.

• One to three years of professional experience in corporate finance, investment banking, accounting, consulting, or equivalent.
• Real estate industry and/or lending experience a plus.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, superior Excel modeling skills (including experience building a scenario-based 3 statement financial model), and advanced skills in developing presentations.
• Knowledge of financial statements, financial and accounting concepts and processes.
• Outstanding oral and written communication.
• Attention to detail and willingness to dig into the numbers to gain key insights.
• Demonstrated self-starter with the ability to learn quickly, identify problems/opportunities and be resourceful in taking action.
• A commitment to excellence and continuously seeking to learn and improve.
• Committed to Building Hope's mission.