Zachary Scott, CFA
Manager, Corporate Finance & Investor Relations
Chicago, IL
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Experienced finance professional within the real estate services industry. Original and creative thinker with an intense intellectual curiosity and desire to understand complex ideas and systems. Passionate about markets, economics, corporate finance and strategy. Experience working with and presenting complex analyses to the C-Suite
Experience
2014
Jul
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Present
Manager, Corporate Finance & Investor Relations
JLL / Chicago, IL
• Build and maintain firm financial models
o Led the creation of the company’s long-term financial targets presented to external stakeholders
o Participate in firm’s capital allocation planning through scenario analysis and stress testing
• Drive execution of M&A strategy through financial modeling, governance oversight, performance tracking and interaction with external advisers. Led valuation modeling and played key role in JLL’s $2B acquisition of HFF
• Prepare presentations for the Board of Directors, senior management, investors and banks
• Perform stock performance and competitor analysis to provide timely insight on market/investor sentiment, competitive intelligence, and strategic feedback to senior management
• Play a key role in quarterly earnings process through the creation of messaging for senior management and leadingthe quarterly financial analyses
• Partake in investor meetings and preform research on prospective and current shareholders
• Contribute to company-wide strategy and transformation initiatives
• Serve as upper management’s go-to for ad-hoc analysis
2013
Apr
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2014
Jul
Tenant Service Coordinator
JLL / Chicago
Abstracted all tenant leases to assure compliance, maximum tenant satisfaction, and maximum client revenue
• Played an integral role in the budgeting process by forecasting revenues such as office base rent, retail percentage rent and operating expense recoveries
• Provided financial oversight of all capital projects by ensuring all invoices were paid in a timely manner and in accordance with projected costs
• Acted as an effective liaison between tenants and building maintenance by communicating proper information andmaking sure all tenant requests were responded to in a timely manner
Education
2006
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2010
Indiana University
Bachelor / Finance, Business Economics
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