The Global Real Estate Strategy & Transactions team enables OpenAIs worldwide growth by executing complex real estate transactions and maintaining a highly controlled global portfolio of leases projects and capital investments. The team partners with Finance Legal IT HR and external brokers to ensure that every real estate commitment is financially sound contractually accurate and operationally executable.
This function is responsible for the financial and data backbone behind OpenAIs global footprint - ensuring leadership decisions are supported by clean models validated data and auditable business cases.
The Real Estate Analyst contractor will support development and execution of real estate financials approvals and transaction closing. This contractor role will ensure every real estate approval lease amendment and capital request is accurate validated consistent and decision-ready.
You will own the data templates financial models and validation processes that underpin all global real estate investment decisions.
This is a high-trust high-precision role.
Approval Infrastructure and Templates
Own and maintain standardized approval templates across all regions.
Manage NDA tracking and COIs for all offices
Validate that all submissions are numerically accurate internally consistent and compliant with REW Finance and Legal standards
Reconcile scope rent term incentives CapEx and cash flow between LOIs leases amendments and approval forms.
Route approvals for final review internally to ensure accuracy and completion
Financial Modeling & Cash Flow Control
Build and maintain lease-level and portfolio-level cash flow models including:
Base rent escalations and free rent
Operating expenses and gross-ups
Tenant improvement allowances and CapEx
Deposits LOCs termination rights and exit costs
Ensure models are audit-ready formula-driven and version-controlled.
Stress-test assumptions and proactively flag risk leakage cost variances or structural inconsistencies.
Data Entry Validation & Portfolio Integrity
Maintain the single source of truth for all real estate financial and contractual data.
Ensure data across models approvals lease abstracts and reporting tools always ties out.
Detect and correct rounding errors mismatches stale assumptions and missing fields before they propagate.
AI-Enabled Execution & Automation
Use AI tools to accelerate:
Lease abstraction and comparison
Error detection and reconciliation Data extraction and normalization
Model auditing and scenario checks
Continuously improve how data is captured validated and reported through automation.
Cross-Functional Enablement
Partner closely with Finance Legal Transactions and Project Management to ensure inputs are aligned.
Provide clear defensible financial outputs that leadership can rely on with confidence.
Track open items owners deadlines dependencies and risks so transactions continue moving across multiple parallel workstreams.
Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Economics Business Real Estate or a quantitative field.
4-6 years of experience in real estate finance corporate finance portfolio analytics transaction support or similar roles.
Exceptional attention to detail you consistently catch issues others miss.
Advanced proficiency in financial modeling and structured spreadsheets.
Experience working with approval workflows budgets leasing.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience reading commercial leases and supporting commercial leases renewals amendments and CapEx approvals.
Familiarity with real estate approvals or investment committee processes.
Experience using AI-driven tools for document analysis data validation or financial modeling.
Comfortable operating in fast-moving high-accountability environments.
What Success Looks Like
In this role you will:
Make it impossible for bad data to reach leadership.
Ensure every real estate approval is accurate consistent and finance-grade.
Use AI and automation to increase throughput while improving quality.
Become the trusted backbone behind OpenAIs global real estate investment decisions.
Required Experience:
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