Manager Strategic Planning

**The Opportunity**
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Strategic Planning & Decision Support, the incumbent will combine their functional accounting expertise, systems knowledge and planning experience to ensure the success of departmental goals and objectives, business intelligence and data analytics related systems projects by representing the needs of the user and user groups.

**What You’ll Do**
- Participate in the execution of the overall business plan of the SPDS team.
- Participate in business requirement prioritization.
- Partner with Senior Manager to lead efficiency initiatives and projects related to property operational reporting, budgeting, forecasting and NOI related processes.
- Partner with Senior Manager to lead the annual property NOI budget process.
- Partner with Senior Manager to lead detailed monthly property NOI forecast process.
- Support the annual IFFO budget and forecast process and the Strategic Planning process as required.
- Analysis, review, and internal reporting as it relates to property NOI.
- Be a key contributor and support for Operations business partners for operational reporting and analysis, budget and forecast processes and projects related to financial initiatives and efficiencies.
- Be a key contributor for accounting and analysis for internal audit and external audit requirements.
- Partner with Senior Manager team to develop formal process documentation.
- Prepare financial and business-related analyses and research as assigned.
- Support SPDS team in the best practice and utilization of Operational finance tools, Service Now, PowerBI, Hyperion and OneStream Analysis and Financial Reporting Studio.
- Develop strong working relationships throughout all levels of the organization.
- Partner with all functional areas of the organization.
- Collaborate with external partners to assist with data collection and reporting when necessary.
- Other duties as required.

**Reporting and analysis**:

- Preparation of monthly and/or quarterly financial reports as follows:

- Consolidated operational NOI reporting (variance reporting and analysis)
- Consolidated operational NOI management and Board reporting
- NOI related consolidated detailed monthly budget and forecast analysis
- Analyze NOI monthly results to budget and/or forecast, provide insights and recommendations as necessary.
- Partner with Senior Manager to support, analyze and monitor monthly budget and forecast results.
- Adhere to corporate reporting policies, guidelines, and timetables.
- Assist with the analysis of business processes and business problems.
- Partner with Senior Manager in reporting for those items that are relevant to monitoring the effective execution of Strategy and Budget.
- SME for leveraging PowerBI, OneStream and Hyperion Analysis and Financial Reporting for NOI and related operational financial reporting.
- Provide guidance on areas requiring financial expertise as necessary.
- Partner with Senior Manager to contribute to the development and improvement and/or automation of:

- detailed property NOI annual budget process
- NOI detailed monthly forecast process
- NOI and operational Metrics reporting process
- Occupancy budget and forecast process and reporting
- consolidated financial reporting and analysis

**Budgeting & Forecasting**:

- Participate in the NOI annual budget and monthly forecast processes.
- Partner with Senior Manager to develop agreed upon timelines and templates.
- Preparation of consolidated NOI annual budgets, monthly and quarterly forecasts.
- Participate in the NOI budget working group activities to ensure milestones are achieved.
- Preparation, review and analyze NOI budgets for completeness and reasonability, explaining material variances.
- Preparation of NOI budget and forecast material presented to senior management and/or owners.
- Key contributor in financial forecasting activities.

**Strategic planning**:

- Participate in the execution of departmental strategic plans and business plans.
- Support the divisional and functional budget process, both operating and capital.

**Information Capital**:

- Key contributor in the implementation of financial and operational systems and processes.
- Understand OneStream, Hyperion Planning (NOI and related metrics), the detailed technical aspects, features, and functionality.
- Understand Financial operational reporting tools such as Service Now, PowerBI (NOI and related metrics), the detailed technical aspects, features, and functionality.
- Assist Senior Manager in the management and development of new functionality from the user perspective and help to ensure that schedule, budget and quality goals are met.
- Understand how the various projects will fit together and make recommendations for design improvements.
- Work with Senior Manager to improve performance and value of existing reports, as well as design, develop and support reporting tools and support production of reporting processes.
- Key contributor of NOI