Principal Analyst, Corporate Real Estate

The Principal Analyst, Corporate Real Estate is responsible for analyzing nationwide real estate strategy and utilizing subject matter expertise to provide recommendations to Corporate Real Estate (CRE) senior leadership, which align with FINRA’s evolving workplace and workforce strategy Manage FINRA’s lease management program, to include partnership with FINRA’s real estate brokers to understand changing local market conditions, enterprise-wide; conducting impact analysis on FINRA’s workplace strategy; providing recommendations on early notification options; and compliance with lease terms.

Additionally, this role conducts predictive analytics for FINRA’s workplace strategy and develops and recommends management reporting for department stakeholders and senior management with relevant metrics.

This is an individual contributor role with some supervisory functions and is expected to work under limited supervision.

Essential Job Functions:


* Independently conduct predictive analytics for all Corporate Real Estate-related data across the enterprise; identify and track metrics relevant to the workplace strategy; and provide thorough and measured recommendations based on in-depth analyses.


* Manage, own, and develop various executive management reports, including the Corporate Real Estate executive dashboard, and serve as an expert resource on CRE data for FINRA’s Management Committee.


* Liaison on all corporate-wide lease matters.


* Provide impact-analysis and lease recommendations for FINRA’s workplace strategy.


* Partner with Finance and Corporate Real Estate to oversee the building operations month end close, budget, forecasts, and variance analyses.


* Responsible for analyzing lease agreements, tenant improvement allowances, and other rent concessions to evaluate total rents of multiple potential locations.


* Ensure key milestone dates, such as early termination and extension notices, etc.

and monitor lease compliance are accurately tracked by third party brokerage group.


* Serve as the primary contact for operating expense reconciliations leases and third-party audit vendor.


* Performs review of recommended sole-source requirements and conducts market analyses.

Selects appropriate method of procurement (i.e.

simplified acquisition procedures, sealed bidding, negotiations).


* Serves as contract administrator on awarded contracts.

Conducts post-award conferences.

Negotiates required changes to contract terms/conditions to protect the agency.

Resolves issues/problems related to the contract.

Performs cost/price analysis on change order proposals and analysis of delivery requirements.


* Develop and recommend, compelling and logically structured, management reports and metrics that illustrate Corporate Real Estate’s workplace strategy for key business stakeholders and leaders across FINRA.

Education/Experience Requirements:


* Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Adm...