Director, Finance - Housing

Brookfield Properties•Centennial, CO

2d•$160,000 - $175,000

About The Position

At Brookfield Residential, a leading North American land developer and homebuilder for over 65 years, we have had one goal in mind – creating the best places to call home. From the development of award-winning, master-planned communities to the creation of well-designed homes, we are committed to cultivating exceptional life experiences for our customers, partners, employees, and members of the community. As part of Brookfield — one of the largest alternative asset managers in the world — we harness our resources to bring a fresh approach, unparalleled creativity, relentless innovation, and sound Sustainability practices to the planning, development, and management of buildings everywhere. From offices, retail spaces, and logistics facilities to multifamily residences, hospitality establishments, and mixed-use structures — we are reimagining real estate from the ground up. If you're ready to be a part of our team, we encourage you to apply. Your Opportunity Working alongside the President, the Director of Finance- Housing will be responsible for managing all aspects of day to day financial responsibility of the Colorado housing group. The Director of Finance will perform a wide range of budgeting, forecasting, investment, market and other operational analysis, which will support corporate and divisional housing business operations, growth and performance improvement initiatives.

Requirements

Public or private homebuilding financial experience
The Financial Planning Director must possess a university degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Management/Administration.
Must have a minimum of 7 years progressive experience in finance or a lead budget analyst role, with at least 3 years of experience in a leadership position in a medium to large sized company
Experience in operational finance, including financial analysis, cost accounting, forecasting, and planning
Knowledge of and experience with general accounting principles and income tax regulations
Strong business acumen and demonstrated experience serving on an executive management team as a strategic business partner
Expert in planning, analysis, budgeting, forecasting and building, and managing complex financial models

Responsibilities

Utilize VENA as a management and reporting platform
Assist and develop reporting tool in sales, and operations
Review, create, and improve budget model architecture
Define, develop, and communicate budgeting and forecasting schedule to ensure coordination and cooperation across the company
Prepare, compile, analyze and communicate information for financial reporting and analysis
Improve performance across the housing business by identifying and assessing areas where the company can drive productivity and efficiency
Create templates, as necessary, to facilitate gathering budget inputs from divisions.
Gather inputs and develop appropriate revenue, cost and investment assumptions, along with key operating metrics that can be tracked and measured
Ensure linkage between budget and strategic plan
Develop and lead long term forecast with appropriate high level inputs
Perform transaction and other investment profitability and return analysis
Create robust pricing model and other proprietary models for valuation
Perform market and historical operating analysis
Provide operational analysis to enhance revenue management, improve sales effectiveness, and manage risks
Provide analysis to Business Development
Execute ad-hoc analytic requests
Provides strong leadership, mentoring and guidance to team members
Provides regular feedback to all staff on expectations and performance.
Provides coaching to help team members excel and grow in the company
Communicates to team members relevant information that pertains to their assigned duties/deliverables
Builds a team culture within the group that helps the department liaise and work effectively and professionally with other departments in the Division and throughout the organization
Participate in ERP implementation, with special emphasis on budgeting and reporting capabilities
Provide preliminary budget, review with Sr. Management and finalize annual budgets and business plan.
Develop financial models and analyses to support strategic, operational, and growth initiatives and influence business decisions made by senior leadership via in-depth analysis