JPMorgan Asset Management - Campbell Global Valuations Manager Vice President 

Australia, New South Wales, Sydney 

275220088

As a Valuations Manager in Asset Management, you will provide Campbell Global (CG) and its clients with timely and accurate timber investment analysis, including valuation of timberland properties, acquisition underwriting analysis, technical forest planning and economic analysis of management alternatives in timberland investments. You will work with several teams across the Company including the Acquisitions, Operations and Portfolio Management teams.

Job responsibilities:

• Develop forest planning and valuation models to support analysis for acquisitions and assets under management. Must have a strong working knowledge of forest operations and harvest scheduling software.
• Create and maintain valuations models using CG’s Timberland Investment Model software, including periodic model updates to support quarterly update reports and other reports as requested. Knowledge of financial and valuation methods is essential.
• Conduct analysis and review of regional operating and economic assumptions underpinning valuation models for CG’s core investment regions (Australasia, U.S. and LatAm) with a focus on Australasia.
• Provide review and assessment of third-party appraisals that are conducted periodically on CG’s assets under management.
• Develop executive summary materials to present investment analytics to internal and external audiences.
• Support the continued enhancement of CG’s proprietary planning and valuation tools, resources, and reporting systems.
• Actively participate within the organization to ensure all timberland management investment services meet or exceed client commitments.
• Represent Campbell Global at all levels, maintaining positive public relations.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• BS in Forestry, Natural Resources or closely related field; and a minimum of five years working experience in a related field; or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Demonstrated experience in timberland financial analysis and modeling.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in CG’s core investment regions, with a focus on Australasia, including an understanding of forest product markets, inventory, forest growth and yield, forest operations and silvicultural management regimes.
• Experience with harvest scheduling software and methods.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment across multiple disciplines and across multiple locations.
• Must have excellent communication skills, both oral and written, as well as demonstrated strong interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrates excellent organizational, time, and prioritization management skills.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience designing and writing SQL queries and functions from relational databases.
• Knowledge and aptitude in a structured programming language such as R, Python, etc. is a strong plus.
• Demonstrated background in carbon-focused measurements and protocols is a plus
• A demonstrated background with Remsoft’s Woodstock suite of tools is preferred.