Financial Analyst - Fairfax, United States - Van Metre Companies

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About the Role:

The role is a highly visible and challenging role, rich in data and analytics, playing a crucial role in driving investment and operational decisions for business units.

The Financial Analyst expresses the Director of Financial Planning's vision for asset and debt management with tangible decision-making products.

The role will use professional expertise to utilize Van Metre's financial, sales, and operation systems to build financial models and provide analysis, transforming data into insights, furthering the evolution of the company.

This position collaborates with Owners, Executives and Senior Leadership on investment decisions and the growth trajectory of the company.


This is a hybrid role, with two days/week spent working in our Fairfax, VA Corporate office.

Responsibilities:


  • In this role, you will report directly to the Director of Financial Planning and support all areas of the business collaborating with New Homes, Land, and Investment Properties divisions to build financial models for projections and reporting
  • Participate in the origination, underwriting and negotiation of investment opportunities, including ground up development, redevelopment opportunities, and/or stabilized assets
  • Conduct analysis of assumption inputs and outputs to drive key investment decisions and reassert projections in current projects
  • Benchmark results of actual financial information to plan and analyze opportunities of multifaceted business decisions
  • Serve as liaison with business units to provide analysis and develop processes and provide recommendations on financial and operational optimization and engineering
  • Assess benefits to be derived and change impacts from system improvements and quantify impacts to business units
  • Articulate cash flow, net income, and debt models to include bank covenant and other complex covenant restrictions in Excel
  • Understand and solve complex financial transactions; superior knowledge of financial theory and valuation
  • Conduct a wide variety of detailed qualitative and numerically oriented assessments and analyses, and provide recommendations based on findings
  • Review legal and transaction documents such as purchase sale agreements, loan documents, etc. and accurately model financial transactions
  • Data aggregation and reporting within excel workbooks and Power Bi; provide clear recommendations on improving information flow

Qualifications / Required Skills and Expertise:

  • Substantial experience and advanced capabilities in Microsoft Excel
  • Mastery of financial calculations (profitability ratios, financial risk ratios, etc.)
  • Wealth of experience in reporting, consolidation, and financial analysis
  • Proficient in financial modeling
  • Demonstrate confidence in explaining, defending and or challenging analytical findings
  • Absolute integrity; highly motivated; able to quickly learn and understand key business drivers and business models; able to manage multiple priorities and tasks while operating effectively in a dynamic, matrixed environment
  • Ability to communicate across diverse audiences ranging from business leadership to technical roles throughout the organization, including field operations; professional maturity and presence to effectively interact with senior leadership
  • Facilitate meetings to validate, prioritize and document project requirements and returns
  • Ability to organize, coordinate and direct projects leading to innovative, strategic initiatives
  • Intellectual curiosity; strong analytical, critical thinking and problemsolving abilities
  • Strong desire and willingness to support team endeavors beyond core responsibilities
  • Operates under mínimal supervision and performs duties with broad latitude for exercising independent judgment
  • Experience as Business Analyst or Financial Analyst, or similar work or internship experience
  • Proficiency with Office 365 product suite

Performance Measurement:


  • Ability to achieve or exceed designated performance goals
  • Accuracy, timeliness, insightfulness, presentation skills
  • Proactively identify opportunities to improve performance

Preferred Skill / Expertise:


  • Proven technical skills in SQL and scripting; ability to generate queries and joins of datasets to process data to support business analysis, benchmarking, and optimization efforts
  • Power BI visualization / DAX expertise
Van Metre Companies has been named a Top Workplace by the Washington Post for seven consecutive years We have received the Washington Business Journal's Best Places to Work Award for the last six years, and have received their Corporate Philanthropy Award for the last nine years in a row

We offer excellent benefits, and a work environment that fosters and rewards excellence. We also promote work/life balance, including a robust Employee Wellness Program.

We encourage employees to make full use of vacation and company paid volunteer time to refresh their bodies and minds.

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