[Hiring] Senior Resource Planning Analyst @Manulife

Role Description

• Develop comprehensive property management plans (CPMP) for assigned timber properties, including organizing, planning, and executing modeling deliverables.
• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders to develop consensus assumptions, harvest yield models, construct Woodstock and DCF models, and integrate tactical harvest planning.
• Conduct sensitivity analysis, explain variances, and communicate with stakeholders to achieve consensus approval.
• Develop long-term plans (LTP) by updating asset-level timber investment models annually, including land transactions, operating costs, price forecasts, and revised operating plan assumptions.
• Analyze changes in IRR and net present value, quantify variances, and communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Manage and develop analysis projects in collaboration with stakeholders, including ad-hoc investment analysis, disposition transaction analysis, and non-timber value-added services project analysis.
• Properly conduct and execute model production workflows and business controls with limited managerial oversight.
• Self-diagnose and resolve investment modeling issues before engaging stakeholders.
• Build rapport and effective customer relationships leading to consensus outcomes.
• Hypothesize modeling outcomes and conduct due diligence to gain customer consensus.
• Develop strategies to address and solve stakeholder inquiries.
• Provide quality control and assurance of team members' work, identifying potential modeling issues and providing resolution guidance.
• Train team members on executing model production workflows and procedures.
• Present complex investment performance results effectively, tailored to the audience.
• Recommend and develop modeling process improvements aligned with company technology and strategies.
• Represent MFM and conduct business with third-party consultants involved in team deliverables.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in forestry or a related discipline.
• Graduate degree in forestry discipline or business is highly desirable.
• Two to five years of experience working with timber investment modeling.
• Knowledgeable of silviculture, growth and yield models, and North American forestry operations.
• Strong TIMO business acumen.
• Timber investment and DCF modeling expertise.
• Remsoft modeling software, DCF modeling frameworks, SQL, Esri GIS, and MS Excel expertise.

Benefits

• Wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage.
• Adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans.
• Various retirement savings plans (including pension/401(k) savings plans and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions).
• Financial education and counseling resources.
• Generous paid time off program in the U.S. includes up to 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days, 150 hours of vacation, and 40 hours of sick time (or more where required by law) each year.
• Full range of statutory leaves of absence.

Company Description

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better.