Senior Financial Analyst

Fairmont/Element New Orleans offers a stable, growth-focused environment within a development and asset management setting. This onsite, full-time Senior Financial Analyst / Controller role supports accounting, financial reporting, cash flow forecasting, lender compliance, and strategic financial analysis across multiple real estate projects in the Metairie and New Orleans area. The position provides a competitive salary of USD 75,000 per year, a comprehensive benefits package, employee discounts, and paid time off. A CPA designation is preferred but not required.

Benefits

• Health insurance and benefits package
• Employee discount
• Paid time off

Responsibilities

• Manage the general ledger for multiple entities, projects, and ownership structures
• Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual close cycles
• Prepare and review financial statements, balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow reports
• Coordinate with external CPAs, auditors, tax advisors, lenders, and investors
• Oversee intercompany transactions and consolidations
• Monitor development costs, capital expenditures, construction draws, and project budgets
• Ensure GAAP compliance and adherence to internal accounting policies
• Develop and maintain detailed project-level and corporate cash flow forecasts
• Track sources and uses of funds during development and stabilization periods
• Assess liquidity requirements and financing needs for projects
• Develop sensitivity analyses for occupancy, ADR, rent growth, construction costs, interest rates, and operating performance
• Provide financial analysis to support refinancing, acquisitions, dispositions, and recapitalizations
• Monitor loan agreements, covenants, reporting requirements, reserve accounts, and debt service obligations
• Assemble lender reporting packages, draw requests, borrowing base certificates, and covenant calculations
• Track construction loan requirements and coordinate funding requests
• Support relationship management with banks, debt funds, preferred equity investors, and institutional partners
• Maintain compliance calendars for financing and investor reporting obligations
• Analyze operating performance against budgets, underwriting, and business plans
• Prepare monthly and quarterly investor reporting packages
• Evaluate operating trends, NOI performance, lease-up metrics, hotel statistics, and return projections
• Track project returns, waterfalls, equity distributions, and investment performance
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and annual business plan preparation
• Assist with acquisitions, development underwriting, and due diligence
• Develop financial models for new developments and investment opportunities
• Evaluate tax incentive programs, grants, historic tax credits, PACE financing, and other capital sources
• Support executive management with ad hoc analyses and strategic initiatives

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Real Estate, or a related field
• Minimum of five years of experience in accounting, finance, real estate, development, hospitality, or investment management
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including financial modeling and forecasting
• Strong understanding of financial statements and cash flow analysis
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously

Preferred qualifications

• CPA designation
• Experience with real estate development, construction accounting, hospitality accounting, or asset management
• Familiarity with partnership accounting and complex ownership structures
• Experience with loan compliance, lender reporting, and covenant monitoring
• Experience with Yardi, MRI, QuickBooks, Sage, ProfitSword, M3, or similar platforms
• Knowledge of institutional real estate finance, private equity structures, and joint venture waterfalls

Technologies

• Microsoft Excel
• Yardi
• MRI
• QuickBooks
• Sage
• ProfitSword
• M3