Real Estate Business Operations Analyst

**The Company**:
Planet Smart City is a leading, innovative proptech company that designs and builds smart, affordable neighbourhoods around the world. Out unique proposition combines our digital know-how and strong sense of social responsibility to build sustainable, connected communities to improve the lives of residents today and in the years ahead.

With a global footprint in the affordable housing sector across emerging and development markets, our expertise in smart solutions integration, digital technologies, services and social innovation enhances residents' quality of life. Embracing digital transformation, we place our communities at the heart of company activities and create sustainable value for shareholders.

Our smart and socially inclusive neighbourhoods are supported by the unrivalled services of the Planet App, the front-end of Planet Smart City's proprietary digital platform, which enables residents to engage which each other and their neighbourhood. In tackling the global housing deficits, we focus on generating positive social impact and have created an innovative format for smart developments that can be replicated worldwide.

Founded by Italian real-estate entrepreneurs Giovanni Savio and Susanna Marchionni in 2015 and chaired by physicist and entrepreneur Stefano Buono, Planet Smart City is headquartered in the UK, with offices in Brazil, India and Italy.

**The Role**:
Planet Smart City's Real Estate Business Unit is engaged in the building, co-development and regeneration of cities, districts, and neighbourhood both at horizontal and vertical scale.

Poised for global scale-up, Planet is looking to replicate the success of the completed flagship projects across new countries and regions, in a modular, efficient, sustainable fashion, with the construction target of 45,000 units per year by 2030.

The Real Estate Business Operations Analyst provides senior leadership and key critical external shareholders with information about the status of RE projects and with market insights to support the RE CEO's strategy setting and decision making.

**Responsibilities**:

- Build, scale, maintain and communicate detailed reporting models alongside the Finance team to assist expansion efforts and make data-driven decisions, including financial modelling for joint ventures and project development.
- Track Planet's real estate projects by creating key performance indicators (e.g. efficiency levels, financial goals), overseeing execution by analysing efficiency and performance of real estate projects.
- Investigating deviations from standard KPIs and escalating issues and concerns to senior leadership to minimise deviation from standards.
- Ensuring the implementation of strategies to improve performance and of corrective measures decided by senior leadership.
- Validating data related to RE projects to be reported and shared internally and externally.
- Carrying out business intelligence activities, including competitor analyses, to investigate external factors which impact company performance in order to provide a comprehensive view of the business to support strategy setting and implementation.

**Experience**:
3-5 years experience in a relevant function in the Real Estate sector or in financial firms or consultancies serving the RE sector or similar.

**Skills/competencies**:

- Business case analysis
- Financial modelling
- Performance analysis
- Business intelligence and competitor analyses
- Financial writing skills
- Reporting skills
- Attention to detail in data analysis
- Fluent written and spoken Italian and English
- Portuguese / Spanish, whilst not necessary, would be a bonus