Real Estate & Workplace Services Business Planning Manager

Job Posting End Date: September 03

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide: 

• Award-winning culture 

• Inclusion and diversity as a priority 

• Performance Based Incentive Plans

• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability 

• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!) 

• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution 

• Mental health support 

• Career advancement opportunities 

• Student loan repayment options 

• Tuition reimbursement

• Flexible work environments 

*All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.

And that’s just the beginning…  

With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today! 

General Summary:

This role provides business planning and analysis leadership for Real Estate and Workplace Services supporting Corporate Security, Real Estate Management, Project Management, Facility Operations and Safety, and Campus Hospitality Services. The Real Estate and Workplace Services organization is responsible for operating expense budgets, capital management, income from multiple service areas, lease administration, and a fixed asset portfolio. The goals of this position are to enable strong business performance and strategic decision making for this multi-faceted organization and drive improvements for performance reporting and insights, cost analysis, business case development, financial accuracy, processes and controls.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Collects inputs from across the Real & Workplace Services team and partners with the Finance organization to ensure accurate budgets, forecasts, reporting, and fixed asset records.
• Directs and/or prepares analyses that serve to inform and ground business decisions and collaborates with subject matter experts, provides quantitative and qualitative analytics, and exercises judgment to drive optimum solutions for complex issues.
• Monitors real-time status of financial/spending activities across Real Estate & Workplace Services functions that impact financial performance.  Tracks positive and negative variance drivers for budget reporting detail.
• Performs ROI and other analysis to support decision-making for new investments, leases and evaluation of alternatives.
• Ensures required financial processes and controls are developed and implemented where needed.
• Oversees fixed asset tracking and reporting within Real Estate & Workplace Services.
• Liaison with other areas of Finance, e.g. Tax or Treasury, to ensure full understanding and reporting of impacts of functional business decisions
• Supports completion of required forms or submissions for financial, tax or other reporting.
• Responsibilities include the development of, implementation of, and adherence to policies and procedures that will improve the overall operations, consistency, controls, process efficiency, and effectiveness of the Real Estate & Workplace Services functions.
• May supervise and/or manage the work of staff and/or outsourced service partners.
• Ensures integrity of various systems and data assets that support business performance management within Real Estate & Workplace Services.
• Act as consultant providing business planning support to functional areas regarding investment decision analysis, conformance to corporate policies and procedures, technical inquiries, financial planning processes, and various tax and accounting requirements related to Real Estate & Workplace Services functions.
• Maintains compliance with corporate policies, procedures and controls and external regulatory requirements.
• Leads and/or participates in business initiatives and projects.
• Presents reports and analysis to functional management. Proactively identifies and researches unusual trends and make recommendations for financial planning and forecasting.
• Analyzes data, provides recommendations for appropriate action, and prepares related reports.

Job Specifications

• Bachelor’s degree required. 
• At least five years of relevant experience.
• Ability to frame up issues, options, and solutions using financial data for business decision-making.
• Strong understanding of financial reporting and budgeting processes.
• Strong negotiation and partnership skills, with ability to influence and challenge decisions and processes.
• Experience navigating change in a positive manner.
• Highly motivated individual able to take independent actions to solve problems/issues across multiple stakeholders.
• Proven ability to balance multiple priorities and work at both detailed and strategic levels

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Unum and Colonial Life are part of Unum Group, a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of employee benefits to companies worldwide. Headquartered in Chattanooga, TN, with international offices in Ireland, Poland and the UK, Unum also has significant operations in Portland, ME, and Baton Rouge, LA - plus over 35 US field offices. Colonial Life is headquartered in Columbia, SC, with over 40 field offices nationwide.

Unum is an equal opportunity employer, considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring, placement, and advancement, without regard to a person's race, color, religion, national origin, age, genetic information, military status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or protected veteran status.

The base salary range for applicants for this position is listed below. Unless actual salary is indicated above in the job description, actual pay will be based on skill, geographical location and experience.

$75,500.00-$142,700.00

Additionally, Unum offers a portfolio of benefits and rewards that are competitive and comprehensive including healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental), insurance benefits (short & long-term disability), performance-based incentive plans, paid time off, and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not.  All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual Plans.

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