Senior Manager, Real Estate Strategy, Reporting & Analysis

Job Description

Grade : P8

Division : IGM Technology & Data

IGM Financial Inc. is one of Canada's leading diversified wealth and asset management companies with approximately $271 billion in total assets under managements.

The company provides a broad range of financial planning and investment management services to help more than two million Canadians meet their financial goals.

Its activities are carried out principally through IG Wealth Management and Mackenzie Investments

Under IGM Financial’s unique business model based on leading brands and multi-channel distribution strategy is Mackenzie Investments, founded in 1967.

Mackenzie Investments is a holistic asset-management partner for thousands of Canadian financial advisors and the investors they support.

At Mackenzie Investments You Can Build Your Career with Confidence.

We have a vision and a strategy that will challenge the way business in this industry is done and help Canadians be successful in the ways that mean the most to them.

As part of our team, you will do some of your best work, develop some of your most valuable skills and give back in ways that make a difference in the lives of Canadians.

We are proud to be recognized as one of Canada’s Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc. for empowering our employees with the tools to thrive while working remotely, while also providing resources to ensure physical and mental wellness were put front and centre.

Join an unstoppable team that is embedded in continuous learning, understanding, and knowledge sharing. You will thrive in our supportive environment where you can indulge your curiosity to learn, while receiving the feedback you need to refine your skills and abilities.

We are dedicated to offering a hybrid work environment when applicable.

Mackenzie Investments is a diverse workplace committed to doing business inclusively - this starts with having a representative workforce! We encourage applications from all qualified candidates that represent the diversity present across Canada including racialized persons, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ community, gender diverse and neurodiverse individuals, as well as all who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.

The Role

The Senior Manager Real Estate Strategy, Reporting & Analytics will support the Corporate Real Estate team in managing and reporting IGM’s Real Estate programs to ensure transparency and clear understanding of project schedule & budgets.

As an intermediate between leadership and our broader Project Management team, you will be a subject matter expert by implementing best practices with respect to program or portfolio financials and will work directly with our extended team members (Finance and EPMO) to ensure timely project updates to help feed into portfolio-wide reporting and status updates.

The Senior Manager will provide support for the planning, management, workspace analysis, budgeting and scheduling across various portfolio and space initiatives, in support of the real estate team.

In a cross-department role, the Senior Manager will aid in providing data & analytics support to all Real Estate verticals - Leasing, Delivery & Operations

You will play a key role in providing refined recommendations for strategic initiatives based on detailed knowledge of business / team objectives, employee insights, opportunities and quantitative / qualitative data as it pertains to a real estate portfolio.

The Senior Manager will be accountable for ensuring that IGM’s Real Estate capital budget is responsibly managed, and work with the Director team to move projects in and out of scope to ensure fiscal year capital spend remains within budget.

The ideal candidate is seasoned in managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders.

Key responsibilities :

• Tracks capital budgets and forecast across projects relative to established budget controls to ensure appropriate fiscal management
• Build, improve upon and maintain the data framework and processes for assessing strategic portfolio data insights.
• Effectively transform and communicate various streams of workplace data into insightful, understandable recommendations.
• Develop presentations communicating financial impact of key strategies / initiatives targeting executive audiences.
• Responsible for and owns regular reports and helps maintain a high degree of data integrity
• Understand the importance of business intelligence data and how it ties into workplace strategy, the IGM real estate portfolio and decision making.
• Diligently update and ensure currency of project schedules, and financials across IGM real estate projects relative to plan, actuals and forecasts.
• Active stakeholder management with focus on building and maintaining strong relationships and ensuring expectations are understood and met
• Develop financial models to support business decisions on various ad-hoc projects as required.
• Using your knowledge of corporate real estate and workplace strategy to build recommendations and support the future ways of work

Competencies

• Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated ability to effectively handle pressures of deadlines, changing priorities and work volumes.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate and manage relationships at all levels of the organization and work within a team environment.
• Delivers business value by leveraging qualitative and quantitative information to guide actions and make recommendations
• Manages complexity by asking the right questions to analyze situations and distinguish which facts are relevant to solving a problem
• Focuses on a problems root cause and explores a variety of solutions
• Communicates effectively within the team, relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people to build effective relationships
• Works with leaders to clarify priorities and coordinates with others to get work done and provides visibility to the status and progress of the work
• Applies industry insights and trends to drive critical initiatives and leverages quantitative and qualitative information to improve performance

Qualifications :

• Minimum of 7-10+ years of strategic workplace experience, data management, and analysis to generate value-added outputs
• Advanced financial and business modelling skills, including expert proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of and strong understanding of Project Management methods, practices, processes, scheduling software and SharePoint
• Knowledge of corporate real estate, and basic leasing is a plus
30+ days ago