CFO Corporate Real Estate

U.S. Bank • Charlotte, NY

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About The Position

The CFO, Corporate Real Estate (CRE) is the senior finance leader accountable for the financial strategy, planning, and analytics of one of the largest and most strategically important physical footprints in U.S. banking - a nationwide portfolio spanning bank branches, office hub locations, and a broad network of client centers and ancillary sites. Partnering directly with the Head of Corporate Real Estate, this role shapes the bank’s go-forward footprint by translating workforce strategy, location choices, and operating model shifts into clear, defensible financial tradeoffs. It works in close partnership with Corporate Treasury and Corporate Accounting to ensure disciplined capital and lease decisioning, balance sheet and P&L integrity, and strong financial governance. This is a build-and-transform mandate, not a caretaker role. The organization is executing a multi-year strategic real estate plan that encompasses branch network transformation - relocations, renovations, and de novo builds - alongside a restructuring of the corporate office footprint into strategic hubs. The CFO, Corporate Real Estate is the financial architect behind this strategy, modeling the full economics of every major decision and translating complex real estate and workforce trade-offs into recommendations the most senior audiences in the company can act on with confidence.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive finance experience, including 5+ years as a divisional or functional CFO or senior finance leader, ideally managing an expense base or P&L of $500M+.
• Deep expertise in corporate real estate finance - occupancy accounting, lease-versus-own analysis, capital planning, and depreciation modeling.
• Command of ASC 842 lease accounting, sale-leasebacks, build-to-suit transactions, and related structures.
• Strong capital allocation discipline - NPV, IRR, payback, and real-options thinking applied to multi-year, multi-site portfolios.
• Demonstrated experience supporting a large, geographically distributed footprint (1,000+ locations) in banking, retail, or a comparable multi-site industry.
• Proven ability to build total-cost-of-location models that integrate real estate, labor, benefits, tax, and transition costs.
• Experience partnering with Treasury and Accounting on balance sheet, lease, and reporting implications.
• Advanced financial modeling skills and the ability to translate complex economics into concise, executive-level narratives.
• Track record of building and leading finance teams and partnering effectively with senior business leaders.
• Experience leading or co-leading a major real estate portfolio rationalization or office consolidation - from business case through execution.
• Familiarity with banking-specific considerations, including CRA implications of branch changes, regulatory approval processes, and how occupancy expense flows through the efficiency ratio.
• Experience negotiating economic incentive and abatement packages, and structuring novel real estate finance vehicles.
• Fluency with real estate technology and BI platforms (e.g., Tririga, Manhattan, CoStar, Lucernex, Power BI, Tableau).
• Experience presenting to ALCO, board real estate committees, or equivalent governance bodies.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise footprint strategy and scenario decisioning (hub/non-hub mix, consolidations, exits, renewals; owned vs. leased; flex/hybrid models) and branch network transformation.
• Portfolio performance management, forecasting, and value realization across the CRE portfolio.
• Investment discipline for major CRE initiatives through ROI/NPV/IRR/payback-based decision frameworks.
• Total-cost-of-location and transaction economics that integrate occupancy, capital, tax, and workforce trade-offs into a single decision framework.
• Alignment of real estate choices to corporate strategy, cost resilience, talent access, operational continuity, and risk posture.
• A high-impact finance team oriented to insight, influence, and execution.
• Serve as the primary strategic finance partner to the Head of Corporate Real Estate, embedded in strategy development from inception rather than reviewing decisions after the fact.
• Deliver executive-ready narratives that simplify complex tradeoffs, and present real estate strategy and multi-year financial impact to the CEO, CFO, and Board-level committees with clarity and credibility.
• Lead multi-year footprint planning and own the financial modeling behind the strategic real estate plan - branch relocations, renovations, de novo builds, and consolidation of the corporate office footprint into strategic hubs.
• Build and maintain a dynamic, site-level portfolio model that supports rapid scenario analysis across occupancy, capital, tax, and workforce dimensions, and model economics for consolidations (lease buyouts, early termination, sublease recovery, and stranded-cost provisions).
• Quantify P&L, cash flow, and balance sheet impacts for major footprint actions and establish clear decision thresholds.
• Lead total-cost-of-location analysis for new sites, integrating occupancy, long-term labor and benefits costs, workforce transition economics, and tax considerations into a single, defensible decision framework.
• Own the financial evaluation of real estate investments and commitments, including sensitivity analysis on key assumptions.
• Evaluate and structure real estate transactions - sale-leasebacks, build-to-suit leases, ground leases, developer joint ventures, and owned development - with a clear view of after-tax NPV, balance sheet, and regulatory capital implications.
• Drive real estate tax strategy, including property tax appeals, PILOT agreements, economic incentives, and abatements for hub locations and new builds.
• Partner with Treasury on funding and capital implications and with Corporate Accounting on lease accounting (e.g., ASC 842), controls, and reporting integrity.
• Build and run core analytics (utilization, demand, cost per seat, run vs. change spend) to enable proactive portfolio decisions.
• Establish operating and performance metrics that drive efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability across the CRE portfolio, linking outcomes to cost, utilization, and strategic objectives.
• Own forecasting and performance reviews, surfacing variance drivers and leading indicators to drive action.
• Maintain strong financial governance, risk management, and audit readiness across the CRE portfolio.
• Partner with HR/People Analytics, Tax, Accounting, and the lines of business to ensure workforce, tax, and accounting inputs are rigorous and defensible.
• Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing finance team spanning FP&A, transaction support, capital planning, and lease accounting, with a strong partnership mindset.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed