Senior Financial Analyst, Financial Performance & Forecasting

• Support the annual Operating Plan, quarterly forecast and long-range planning processes across Europe and APAC.
• Coordinate planning inputs with Asset Management (both internal and 3rd party), Investments, Development, Real Estate Finance and other regional stakeholders, helping ensure key assumptions are complete, consistent and supported.
• Input and consolidate forecast submissions and analyze performance against actual results, prior forecast and Operating Plan.
• Assess and clearly present the regional outlook, including key risks, opportunities and sensitivities.
• Analyze key portfolio assumptions, including operating performance, leasing, transactions, deployment, financing, capital expenditure and valuation-related impacts.
• Build scenario and sensitivity analyses to evaluate changes in business and market conditions.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual reporting materials for regional leadership, Oxford's Executive Committee, and local Board of Directors.
• Translate actual and forecast performance into concise, executive-ready insights, presentations, dashboards and written narratives.
• Analyze investment returns and key performance indicators, including NOI, interest, other gains and losses, capital expenditures, leasing costs, deployment, financing activity and valuation movements.
• Explain performance across geographies, sectors, investment strategies and assets, distinguishing underlying operating performance from portfolio, transaction and market impacts.
• Perform return calculations and attribution analysis for pending and completed transactions and support variance analysis against Operating Plan and latest forecast.
• Support regional P&L and portfolio reviews, highlighting implications, decisions and follow-up actions.
• Perform quality reviews of reports, presentations and analysis to support accurate, consistent and timely reporting.
• Partner with Asset Management, Investments, Development, Real Estate Finance, Real Estate Accounting, and Regional leadership to develop planning assumptions and performance insights.
• Support decision-making through scenario analysis, sensitivity modelling, return attribution and business case analysis.
• Evaluate inputs and challenge assumptions constructively, escalating material inconsistencies, risks and opportunities where appropriate.
• Translate complex financial and operational information into clear insights and practical recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Build effective working relationships across functions, regions and levels of seniority while managing competing priorities in a complex environment.
• Support and coordinate with Real Estate Accounting and other stakeholders on acquisitions and dispositions.
• Assist with financial due diligence, transaction impact analysis, agreement review support and the assessment of accounting or reporting implications.
• Coordinate cross-functional financial support during transaction execution and the onboarding or offboarding of investments.
• Maintain regional transaction activity data and provide related forecast, return and variance analysis.
• Contribute to the evolution of regional Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) capabilities, including driver-based planning, standardized KPIs, scenario modelling and enhanced executive reporting.
• Support improvements in reporting quality, consistency, timeliness, automation and scalability.
• Identify opportunities to simplify recurring work, strengthen controls and redirect team capacity toward higher-value analysis.
• Explore responsible uses of automation and AI-enabled analysis while maintaining appropriate review, data quality and control standards.
• Complete ad-hoc financial and performance analysis as required.

Required

• Intellectual curiosity, commercial awareness and sound analytical judgment.
• Strong attention to detail, with an ability to retain perspective on the broader business implications.
• Clear financial storytelling and executive communication.
• Collaborative business partnering and stakeholder management.
• Self-starter with a continuous improvement mindset and an interest in automation, analytics and modern finance tools.
• 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.

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business or a related discipline.
• CPA, ACA or equivalent designation, or progress toward completion, is preferred.

• Wellness programs
• Employee resource groups
• Professional development opportunities

OMERS

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omers.com

1,001-5,000 employees

Financial Services

Toronto, ON

Privately Held

92k LinkedIn followers

Founded in 1962, OMERS is one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, with C$151.6 billion in net assets as at June 30, 2026. With employees in our offices in Toronto, London, New York, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Singapore, Sydney and other major cities across North America and Europe, OMERS invests and administers pensions for over half a million active, deferred and retired employees of 1,000 municipalities, school boards, libraries, police and fire departments, and other local agencies in communities across Ontario.