Director of Business Systems & Analytics

Company: Larry H. Miller Group
Location: Sandy
Posted on: October 24, 2024

Job Description:

Director of Business Systems & Analytics Job Category: MFRE - General Requisition Number: DIREC004195 Posted: August 13, 2024 Employment Type: Full-Time Locations Showing 1 location About Larry H. Miller Real EstateLarry H. Miller Real Estate (LHMRE), a portfolio company of the Larry H. Miller Company, is a vertically integrated real estate platform that engages in site acquisition and development, project and construction management, financial and capital structuring, and property and asset management. LHMRE's development projects and assets include large-scale master-planned residential communities; commercial, industrial, and entertainment venue development and asset management; and a growing portfolio of joint ventures with leading real estate partners across the nation. The Larry H. Miller Company provides management and direction for its portfolio of well-known and high-performing companies, and always seeks to support its mission to enrich lives and its vision to be the best place in town to work and the best place in town to do business.Reports to: Chief Financial OfficerJob DescriptionWe are seeking a talented professional to join us as a Director of Business Systems & Analytics to manage the enhancement and maintenance of data & technical solutions to plan and optimize our strategic real estate plans. The Director of Business Systems & Analytics plays a critical role in ensuring the efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness of the organization's financial and inventory systems and processes. The Director of Business Systems & Analytics plays a key role in building reports and providing data for analysis in a succinct, organized, and reliable system that supports the organization and individual departments in decision-making and daily operations.Responsibilities

• Serves as the lead for implementation, administration, and day-to-day operations of financial/data systems, user support, and application support across various finance, accounting, construction, inventory, and marketing applications.
• Work with internal departments to automate various reporting metrics including, but not limited to, KPIs and financial dashboards.
• Manage end-to-end project delivery, from initial requirements gathering to user testing and deployment. Facilitate internal team meetings and discovery workshops to understand business challenges and requirements and propose on-point solutions.
• Monitor timing, scope, delivery, and quality of releases; ensure dependencies are managed and solutions meet agreed requirements and timeline.
• Work across teams to ensure progress towards common goals and timely communication of project updates, risks, and/or impact to stakeholders.
• Maintain technical documentation, review deliverables, develop communication plans, and drive user feedback into product improvements.
• Identify opportunities for innovation, stay current with technology trends, and prioritize activities for organizational value.
• Oversight of business systems to ensure financial policy and procedure compliance as directed from the CFO and Vice President of Accounting.
• Be the subject matter expert on financial systems to facilitate stable, scalable, and agile divisions.
• Collaborate with LHMCO's Data Warehouse Director, Data Warehouse Engineer, and Report Writer to propose data schema and data flow optimization for reporting performance and enhancement as needed.
• Analyze problems in terms of process and/or system functionality and apply analytical techniques to formulate, communicate, and implement solutions.
• Assist management through researching and developing strategies to monitor and uphold record-keeping and reporting compliance.Experience & Skills
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, information systems, CIS/MIS, or a related field.
  • Proven track record of managing the delivery of data and technical solutions with consistent timeliness and quality outcomes.
  • Experience with CRE platforms (i.e., Yardi, MRI, CoStar, etc.) strongly desired.
  • Financial Process experience across all finance and accounting processes and cross-functional process knowledge.
  • Chart of Accounts design and financial master data management experience.
  • Results-oriented change agent who is an effective business system thinker.
  • Friendly and welcoming demeanor with the ability to maintain professionalism and a strong customer-focused demeanor with demanding clientele.
  • Excellent time management skills, detail-orientation, and ability to multi-task and prioritize work.
  • Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills, along with advanced conflict resolution skills.
  • Effective communication and interpersonal skills and proficient in English. Must be able to articulate needs and convey information verbally and in writing effectively with employees, customers, supervisors, and co-workers throughout the organization.
  • 5+ years of experience in data, analytics, and insights related fields while delivering robust insights across organizational matrix.
  • Extensive experience in the use of tools for process improvement, project management, change management, and other improvement techniques.
  • Experience in the real estate industry a plus.Physical Requirements
    • Must have the ability to read and comprehend large quantities of information, operate computer equipment, speak, hear, bend, stoop, reach, lift, move, and carry up to 25 lbs. independently.
    • Regularly required to sit, stand, bend, reach, and move about office setting.
    • To perform other duties as required.Competencies
      • Manage Complexity: Make sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively analyze situations and identify solutions.
      • Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives.
      • Plans and Aligns: Plan and prioritize work to meet commitments aligned with organizational needs and goals. Includes ability to break down objectives into appropriate initiatives and actions while anticipating and adjusting effective contingency plans.
      • Instills Trust: Gains the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity by following through on commitments, keeping confidences, and showing consistency between words and actions.
      • Strategic Mindset: Sees ahead to future possibilities and translates them into breakthrough strategies. Achieved by anticipating future trends and implications accurately and articulating credible pictures and visions of possibilities that will create sustainable value.Note: The need may arise to revise, supplement, or rescind portions of this job description, and Larry H. Miller Real Estate reserves the right to do so at any time. Employee shall be required to meet the qualifications and perform the duties of any revised job description.
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