Director of Financial Planning and Analysis
Full Time
Austin, TX 78738
Posted 1 day ago
Job description
The Director – Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) is responsible for providing leadership and strategic direction to the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Team and overseeing the strategic management and analysis of American Campus Communities’ financials through modeling, projections, actuals, and reporting in accordance with GAAP and cash basis accounting principles. This position collaborates with internal stakeholders in pursuit of collective business objectives, provides strategic support to senior leadership, and evaluates processes and provides recommendations to increase efficiency and produce high quality outputs.
Critical Duties:
- Oversee the workflow and prioritization of FP&A projects and ensure timely and accurate updates and reporting.
- Proactively and effectively analyze business results to identify trends and key performance indicators to assist in strategic financial management.
- Provide comprehensive support for corporate and property FP&A needs to include, but not limited to: budgeting process; variance analysis; strategic forecasting; decision support and guidance; etc.
- Provide support to the FP&A Team to ensure a high level of collaboration, knowledge, and service to the communities within their designated portfolios.
- Facilitate the FP&A Team’s function as a liaison between various departments across the business to collect and organize relevant information.
- Lead collaboration with the Information Technology department to assist with the efficiency, delivery, and ongoing implementation of the budgeting and forecasting system.
- Facilitate the preparation of monthly reporting packages for senior leadership, including both financial and non-financial data for review.
- Proactively identify system(s) and process improvements that enhance the overall business user experience and increase the Company’s accuracy and strategy in financial forecasting and management.
- Assist in managing and monitoring the financial health of the Company to promote success and growth.
- Ensure compliance with Sarbanes Oxley and departmental policies and procedures related to the Company’s budgeting and forecasting processes.
Essential Duties:
Other duties may be assigned
Other duties may be assigned
- Effectively communicate and problem solve with team members, other departments, and senior leadership in all necessary areas related to financial forecasting and management.
- Ensure the FP&A Team maintains strong working knowledge of financial modeling and current Excel functions/features to ensure efficiency in all daily processes.
- Coordinate and oversee the FP&A Team’s involvement in regular meetings with Operations stakeholders as needed and/or requested.
- Participate in regular meetings with Information Technology stakeholders to establish and maintain FP&A’s data needs from various ACC systems.
- Work collaboratively to identify and drive initiatives to continuously improve, automate, and scale processes and systems, achieve goals, and ensure work is completed accurately and timely.
- Drive improved employee engagement and encourage professional development of the FP&A Team by continuously seeking opportunities to assist in their growth.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Carries out supervisor responsibilities including interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning assigning and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; and addressing complaints and resolving problems. Provides regular updates to senior management.
American Campus Communities Culture Commitments
- Our people are devoted to a culture of inclusion, diversity, and equality in the workplace and our communities. We are committed to intentionally executing an evolving set of goals specific to inclusion, diversity, and accountability, driven by empathetic leadership and embraced by all.
- The core of American Campus culture involves everyone being fully invested in everything that we do down to picking up the smallest piece of trash in the office and around our communities. No matter their position or duration at the organization, everyone picks up trash.
- Serve as an American Campus representative and liaison in all interactions.
- Certain activities involved in this position may be photographed and/or video and audio recorded for quality control and/or training purposes. Compliance with the Photo, Video and Voice Recording Policy is a condition of employment.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Economics, Business, or Finance, and/or 5-7 years’ experience in student/multi-family housing financial planning and analysis, and/or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
Knowledge of:
- Student housing and/or multi-family real estate industry and operations including, but not limited to: financials practices, leasing and marketing, management, and residential services, etc.
- Effective project management processes and resources.
Skill in:
- Financial modeling and forecasting.
- Excel functions and features.
- Business analysis.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and collaboration.
- Project and time management.
- Administration and organization.
- Analytical strategic conceptualization and consulting.
- Working with cross-functional teams in a fast-growing, rapidly changing environment.
- Effective leadership and teamwork.
Ability to:
- Explain analytic strategic conceptualization and consulting to business unit leaders and stakeholders.
- Explain business strategies and concepts to technologists.
- Track, prioritize, and drive multiple concurrent projects to success.
- Problem solve and analyze data by assimilating new information, understanding complex topics, and arriving at sound analysis and judgement.
- Remain detail oriented while multi-tasking across multiple priorities and projects to include personal workload and team workload.
- Drive process and change in a dynamic and complex operating environment.
- Provide strategic thinking and analysis.
- Make decisions effectively and efficiently.
- Read, analyze, and interpret business/financial reports.
- Gain traction quickly and demonstrate ambition and high energy.
- Address common inquiries from business and technical partners.
- Build relationships and liaise with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
- Motivate a team to achieve organizational goals.
Benefits
- Dental
- Vison
- 401(k)
- Medical & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Life Insurance
- Sick Leave
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Maternity Leave
- Health Insurance
- Short Term & Long Term Disability
About American Campus Communities
American Campus Communities is the nation’s largest developer, owner and manager of high-quality student housing communities.
Whether we’re creating a new development, upgrading an acquired community, or partnering with a university to develop or manage on-campus housing, our goal is the same: deliver the best possible experience for students – at every price point.
And it’s not just about great living spaces and great amenities. It’s about giving students the resources and environment they need to succeed, both academically and personally.
Our Mission keeps us focused:
Our values help us get there.
Delivering the best possible student experience doesn’t just happen. It takes an unrelenting commitment to students, parents and educational institutions. It also takes a corporate culture built on shared values, a higher purpose, and a team of people who truly love what they do.
Department
Management Services
Employment Type
Full Time
Location
Corporate
Workplace type
Onsite
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