Senior Resource Planning Analyst

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JOB DESCRIPTION
People Leader Role: No
Responsibilities:
- 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.
Job Requirements:
- 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.
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This job description is not a comprehensive listing of all job duties required for this role. We reserve the right to change these duties or assign additional duties at any time with or without notice

The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.

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