Senior Financial Manager, Real Estate

Job Details

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.

The Office of Real Estate at Johns Hopkins supports both the University and Health System and is generally responsible for managing “off campus” assets, third-party leasing, and all strategic real estate endeavors including acquisitions, dispositions, and transactional real estate functions. We are seeking a Sr. Financial Manager who will oversees the strategic and operational financial accounting and management activities of the Office of Real Estate, and works closely with the offices of General Accounting, Treasury, and the Office of Budgets and Planning. The Sr. Financial Manager supports the Chief Real Estate Officer and team, inclusive of Leasing, Asset Management and the Real Estate Development functions.

The Sr. Financial Manager is responsible for fiscal management for a complex environment, which may include large and multiple centers, programs, departments, and organizations with a comparatively large and complex budget. In addition to managing financial activities involving a variety of account types and overseeing the development and management of budgets, the position has primary responsibility for financial modeling, financial analysis and financial planning.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage funds of various types, e.g., general, clinical, research, gift, endowment, etc., whose total revenues exceed $30 million dollars.
• Oversee the development of all budgets for assigned areas.
• Responsible for monitoring and overall analysis of budget patterns, expenditures, and revenue.
• Provide management for the overall department/division financial systems. Develop, implement, and oversee the continued improvement of financial systems and processes.
• Develop complex financial reports for forecasting, trending, and results analysis.
• Develop management, narrative, and statistical reports.
• Lead the process of strategic financial planning with senior management
• Formulate and document overall planning for projects, new services, and initiatives which incorporates growth, viability, profitability, and fosters the continued advancement of the area’s mission
• Develop detailed business plans for new and existing programs to include market demand assessment, capital needs, facilities, strengths and weaknesses, operational requirements, and implementation plans.
• Collaborate with appropriate internal and external administrative offices to ensure that required policies and procedures are followed.
• Provide direct supervision to unit staff and/or oversight for finance staff across the designated area.
• Work closely with Asset Management and Development functions to prepare and update quarterly, annual, and long-term financial forecasts and reconciliations for assigned real estate entities and assets. Work with CREO, Real Estate team and other offices to prepare 10-year strategic budgets.
• Participate in annual interdepartmental budgeting and financial review process for assigned real estate entities.
• Project and reconcile P&L and debt balances with General Accounting and Treasury Offices.
• Manage the accounting function, including payment processing in JH accounting system (SAP), rent collections, administration and salary expenses.
• Prepare financial analysis including IRR and ROE and proformas for various strategic real estate transactions as basis for management lease/purchase/debt management/funding decisions.
• Approve AP transactions and Journal entries in SAP for real estate managed properties. For properties under Financial Manager purview, provide tax department with financial data for corporate tax and personal property tax returns.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or related field.
• Five years of progressively responsible related financial/accounting and financial management experience, e.g., planning, monitoring, or controlling the monetary resources of a department, center, or comparable business unit.
• Experience with real estate transactions, commercial real estate ending or bond financing, or real estate assets.
• Experience working on a complex budget.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in a related field