Finance Officer Senior - Senior Real Estate Financial Analyst

Work with Metro’s Real Estate Services to turn market data into actionable insights for the public real estate portfolio. This non-supervisory role supports strategic, data-driven analysis and recommendations, with a strong emphasis on valuation concepts such as highest and best use, along with financial, economic, and social impact considerations aligned with public value.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct market research and analyze data to identify economic and demographic trends and emerging geographic opportunities.
• Monitor macroeconomic and financial factors affecting the real estate landscape.
• Evaluate Metro-owned and targeted properties by modeling highest and best use and assessing asset and portfolio performance.
• Support ongoing portfolio surveillance by tracking KPIs and maintaining property watch lists for underperforming assets.
• Create reports, investment memorandums, and executive dashboards for management review.
• Build cash-flow models for public and market value, pro formas, cost-benefit analyses, sensitivity analysis, and buy-versus-lease alternatives.
• Compare economic, financial, and social impacts using metrics relevant to public value across analyses.
• Analyze acquisition, disposition, leasing, renewal, and redevelopment alternatives, including operating expenses, capital costs, tenant improvements, purchase options, and long-term implications.
• Produce written summaries, decision matrices, and recommendations for management.
• Review and summarize real estate contracts, leases, purchase and sale agreements, easements, title documents, and survey restrictions to identify decision-relevant information.
• Assist due diligence for acquisitions and dispositions by verifying property information, conducting site visits, and assessing regulatory and legal compliance.
• Support the appraisal process by helping develop scopes of work, assembling property information, coordinating with independent appraisers, and reviewing reports for completeness and reasonableness while elevating questions and findings to management.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders and manage assigned projects to meet departmental needs, including accountability for schedules, deliverables, outcomes, and communication.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Real Estate, Economics, Accounting, Business Administration, or a closely related field, plus four (4) years of professional experience in commercial real estate financial analysis, commercial property valuation, commercial real estate investment analysis, commercial real estate asset management, commercial real estate portfolio analysis, or related commercial real estate transaction analysis.
• Additional experience may be considered in lieu of education.
• Current State Certified General Real Estate Appraiser credential (from any state).
• Experience supporting appraisal assignments, including scopes of work and consultant coordination.
• Experience reviewing and summarizing real estate documents and economic and financial market data used to form analysis assumptions.
• Experience preparing and reviewing multi-family (10-or more units) and commercial cash flows, pro formas, discounted cash flow, cost-benefit, and buy-versus-lease analyses using advanced spreadsheets.
• Experience in commercial real estate asset or portfolio analysis, government real estate transactions, or financial feasibility analysis supporting capital projects.

Work Location and Role Details

Nashville, TN (onsite). This is a non-supervisory professional position currently reporting to the Deputy Director of General Services, and the reporting relationship may change based on organizational needs.

Compensation

USD 84,666 - 99,481 per year.

Benefits

• 10 Vacation Days per year, increasing after 5 years of service
• 1 Sick Day per month
• 12 Paid Holidays per year

Full-time, Civil Service positions include these benefits. Other position types have different benefits or require checking HR and Benefits webpages.

Eligibility Note

Per Metro Ordinance No. SO94-1078, all employees of the Metropolitan Government shall be residents of the State of Tennessee or become residents within six (6) months of employment as a prerequisite to employment with the Metropolitan Government.