Senior Real Estate Analyst

WillScot•Scottsdale, AZ

25d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Real Estate Analyst supports the real estate, operations and finance teams with financial analysis, reporting, and data-driven insights supporting its real estate portfolio. This role partners closely with real estate leadership, operations and finance teams by executing complex analytical workstreams, coordinating inputs across teams, and delivering consistent, high-quality outputs that inform overall portfolio decision making. This role supports the long-term portfolio strategy, lease actions, and capital initiative processes by preparing standardized financial models, maintaining reporting tools, and ensuring operational and real estate data accuracy throughout the real estate lifecycle. This role blends data analysis, stakeholder engagement, project management, and business case development to drive operational excellence and portfolio strategy. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about transforming complex data into actionable insights.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Real Estate, or related analytical field
Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a financial analyst preferably in commercial real estate, investments, or asset management
Must have advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office software products, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, and Projects.
Proficiency with accounting fundamentals and financial analysis
Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice To Haves

Advanced Excel modeling (DCF, IRR, NPV, waterfalls sensitives) experience preferred
Experience with Tableau, Power BI, or similar visualization tools
Experience with ARGUS Enterprise for cash flow and valuation modeling preferred
Scenario and stress testing experience preferred
Strategic thinker with intellectual curiosity and ability to collaborate effectively across diverse stakeholder groups, including senior leadership
Highly organized, detail-oriented, and self-driven, with the ability to independently manage workflow and deadlines
Ability to analyze and interpret complex data and communicate associated insights to non-technical stakeholders
Understanding of basic real estate contract terms and strategy

Responsibilities

Formalize operational demand forecasts into detailed real estate requirements for expansion, consolidation, capital expenditures and sequencing prioritization
Partner with cross-functional teams to forecast space needs based on business projections, operational standards and space requirements
Build and maintain standardized real estate models to generate data-driven forecasts for both short and long-term network optimization strategic planning
Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of portfolio data, ensuring high integrity in the real estate database, supply/demand metrics, KPIs, and market demographics
Analyze portfolio performance to identify risks, opportunities, and cost reduction options
Support the site evaluation and market prioritization process through due diligence, demographic research, and competitive and operational data analysis
Develop business case scenario and sensitivity analyses in collaboration with real estate, operations and corporate finance leadership
Produce recurring and ad hoc reports providing visibility into development, lease activity, and capital deployment
Assist with planning and execution of real estate related projects by tracking critical action items, deadlines, and deliverables
Develop dashboards, reporting packages, and executive level presentations
Ensure data accuracy by analyzing and identifying data inconsistencies
Maintain required GIS datasets that support organizational strategy
Lead the real estate budget and forecast process
Manage the monthly rent payment process