Senior Financial Analyst, Global Financial Performance & Forecasting

OMERS Ventures; Toronto; On-site; CAD 72,000 - 108,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group benefits

Retirement plans

Job summary

Oxford Properties is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst for Global Financial Performance & Forecasting (GFP&A) to support consolidated planning, forecasting and reporting to OMERS and the Executive Committee. You will blend rigorous financial analysis with executive storytelling to shape enterprise performance and forecasts across a global portfolio.

The role focuses on driver-based planning, standardized KPIs, and data-driven insights, leveraging Power BI, automation, and AI-enabled techniques.

Qualifications

• Three+ years in FP&A or related field; real estate/investment experience is a plus.
• Strong financial modelling skills and advanced Excel; Power BI or similar visualization experience preferred.
• Ability to identify drivers, evaluate assumptions, and deliver forward-looking analysis.
• Experience with multi-currency and complex org environments is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Prepare Oxford’s consolidated quarterly reforecast and annual budget materials with insight and analysis against budget/forecast.
• Modernize enterprise FP&A with automation, AI-enabled analysis, driver-based planning and standardized KPIs.
• Translate performance into executive-ready narratives and dashboards for OMERS and executives.
• Collaborate with regional FP&A, Valuations, Real Estate Financing and other teams to improve enterprise analysis.

Skills

Financial modelling

Excel advanced

Power BI

Executive storytelling

Cross-functional

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting/business

CPA/CFA or progress toward

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Choose a workplace that empowers your impact.

Join a global workplace where employees thrive. One that embraces diversity of thought, expertise and passion. A place where you can personalize your employee journey to be — and deliver — your best.

We are a leading global real estate investor, developer and manager. We combine our capital with our capabilities to create real estate that strengthens economies and communities. By prioritizing people, partnerships and places, we generate meaningful returns for OMERS members, enhance value for our capital partners and create a brighter world for our customers.

Join us to accelerate your growth & development, prioritize wellness, build connections, and support the communities where we live and work.

Don’t just work anywhere — come build tomorrow together with us.

The Senior Financial Analyst, Global Financial Performance & Forecasting (GFP&A) will support consolidated planning, forecasting and performance reporting delivered directly to Oxford's Executive Committee and OMERS (parent of Oxford). This role will help shape Oxford’s enterprise performance story and financial outlook across its global portfolio. The successful candidate will combine strong analytical skills with curiosity and business judgment, helping leaders understand not only what happened, but why it happened and what could happen next.

This is an opportunity to combine strong financial analysis with executive storytelling, business partnering and Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) transformation. The successful candidate will connect financial and operating performance to the underlying drivers, challenge assumptions, assess risks and opportunities, and translate complex information into clear, decision-ready insights. The role will also contribute to modernizing Oxford’s planning and reporting capabilities through improved data, visualization, automation and AI-enabled analysis.

Oxford’s FP&A activities broadly include:

Planning and forecasting:

• Play a key role in Oxford’s enterprise budget and quarterly forecast processes, coordinating inputs and helping ensure assumptions, risks and opportunities are reflected consistently.
• Analyze and challenge key portfolio assumptions, including operating performance, transactions, deployment, financing and valuation-related impacts
• Build scenario and sensitivity analysis to evaluate changes in business and market conditions.

Analyzing and communicating:

• Translate actual and forecast performance into concise, executive-ready insights for the Executive Committee and OMERS.
• Explain key return and KPI movements across regions, sectors and investment strategies, distinguishing underlying performance from portfolio, transaction and market impacts.
• Develop clear presentations, dashboards and written narratives that highlight implications, decisions and actions.

Partnering and transforming:

• Partner with regional FP&A teams, Valuations, Real Estate Financing and Capital Markets, Asset Management, and other functions to develop enterprise performance insights and planning assumptions including improving the quality, consistency and timeliness of enterprise analysis.
• Contribute to the evolution of Oxford’s FP&A capabilities, including driver-based planning, standardized KPIs, scenario modelling, automation, AI-enabled analysis and Power BI reporting.
• Identify opportunities to simplify recurring work, strengthen controls and redirect team capacity toward higher-value analysis.

Day to day work includes preparation of internal reporting packages, executive presentations, related reports and analysis, and maintaining/updating PowerBI dashboards and other global tools/systems needed for FP&A reporting.
This role requires strong analytical and communication skills as well as the ability to multitask in a complex environment. Experience in the real estate industry involving consolidations and consolidated management reporting is preferred. Experience in a large organization with a complex structure is considered a strong asset.

As a member of this team, you will be responsible for:

• FP&A: Preparing Oxford’s consolidated quarterly reforecast, and annual budget internal reporting materials, providing insight and analysis for actual results versus budget/forecast;
• Contribute to the modernization of enterprise FP&A, including automation, AI-enabled analysis, driver-based forecasting, scenario modelling, standardized KPIs and enhanced executive reporting.
• Performing return calculations including analysis of pending/completed transactions, analyzing attribution of key contributors and assisting in return variance analysis at various levels against budget and latest forecast;
• Analyzing and maintaining global transaction activity data and related variance analysis and reporting;
• Playing a significant role in the continuous transformation of Oxford’s quarterly and budget executive-level reporting using dynamic visualization tools (such as PowerBI) or PowerPoint/written reports to communicate results and analysis and facilitating the underlying data infrastructure;
• Analyzing key performance indicators such as NOI, interest, other gains and losses, capital expenditures/leasing costs and performing related variance analysis and analytics as it relates to actual and forecast/budget reporting both at the consolidated portfolio level and at various roll-ups (geographic, sector, investment strategy, by type of asset, etc.);
• Performing quality review of various reports, decks and other materials prepared for internal use or OMERS reporting;
• Completing ad-hoc analyses as required by management.

Required Skills & Experience:

Financial Analysis & Technical Expertise:

• Three or more years of progressive experience in FP&A, financial analysis, transaction analysis, valuation, audit, or a related field; real estate or investment experience is an asset.
• Strong financial modelling skills and advanced Excel capability; Power BI or similar visualization experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to identify key business drivers, evaluate assumptions, and produce forward-looking analysis.
• Experience with multi-currency, consolidated, or complex organizational environments is an asset.
• Exposure to planning systems, data transformation, automation, or AI is an asset.

Communication & Stakeholder Management:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex analysis into concise executive-level insights.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and collaborate effectively across functions, regions, and levels of seniority.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

Professional Qualifications & Industry Knowledge:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, or a related discipline.
• CPA, CFA, or equivalent designation (or progress toward completion) is preferred.

Business Acumen & Critical Thinking:

• Intellectual curiosity, sound judgment, and the confidence to challenge inputs constructively.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to evaluate assumptions and business impacts.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

The expected salary range for this position is $72,000.00 - $108,000.00 per year.

You may also be eligible to receive an annual Incentive Award pursuant to our Short-term Incentive plan and our Long-Term Incentive plan (if applicable), and to participate in our group benefits and retirement plans – details on these elements of compensation are included within OMERS & Oxford offer letters.

Oxford's purpose is to strengthen economies and communities through real estate.

Our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities where we live and work — and the customers we proudly serve.

From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are used to support certain stages of the OMERS recruitment process. While AI assists us in our process, human judgment and decision-making remain central to our candidate experience.