Job Description

Company

Privately held commercial real estate investment firm with a track record of acquiring, investing, and developing across the Commercial Real Estate (CRE) asset and product type spectrum. The organization is built on 70+ years of experience, multi-generational leadership, and a legacy that has thrived through growth, innovation, and values. The firm seeks to make investments through a value-based approach that ensures lasting financial strength and community impact.

Position

The Commercial Real Estate Analyst will support the Real Estate team and will serve a key role through financial analysis, modeling, underwriting, due diligence, reporting, and operations support at the portfolio, investment, and project level. Generating, summarizing, and presenting meaningful data and information to executives and key decision makers is critical for the company to maximize value and returns on CRE properties. This position is ideal for an individual with existing financial analysis experience with CRE, an analytical mind, excellent presentation and communication skills, and a strong work ethic that is seeking a career broadening opportunity within a stable and expanding real estate portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Build and present robust Excel models for analyzing Commercial Real Estate investments.
• Support the development and refinement of portfolio optimization and asset allocation strategy.
• Responsible for monthly, quarterly, and annual performance reporting, including commentary and variance explanations.
• Build and maintain Commercial Real Estate investment models.
• Prepare internal valuations through discounted cash flow modeling for Commercial Real Estate investments.
• Perform annual hold/sell analysis.
• Assist in budgeting, forecasting, and business planning.
• Review, analyze, interpret reports and financials; identify issues and trends.
• Analyze the use of leverage in the portfolio. Analyze tax optimization strategies such as 1031 tax deferred exchanges for dispositions.
• Assist in the formulation of strategy for land holdings by performing hold/develop/sell/lease/ground lease analysis.
• Prepare CRE development project proformas.
• Assist in the preparation, review, and analysis of project reports to include project and job costing.
• Assist in the underwriting and due diligence of CRE transactions including reading and interpreting leases, loan documents and partnership agreements.
• Support asset management in areas such as the impact of capital spending, lease analysis, expense reconciliations, tax appeals.
• Serve as liaison between the real estate team and the accounting and FP&A teams.
• Work on ad hoc projects and requests as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, real estate, or a related field, MBA is a plus.
• 3-5+ years of Commercial Real Estate analysis experience.
• Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail and accuracy, and strong organizational skills.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills; ability to convey complex issues clearly and succinctly; comfortable presenting and working with all levels of leadership.
• Able to work independently and in a team environment.
• Demonstrated flexibility to handle multiple projects within a well-structured, process driven environment.
• Success developing and sustaining strong relationships with Team Members and others.
• Experience computing investment performance metrics.
• ARGUS experience strongly preferred.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Proficient in real estate accounting and property management software (MRI preferred).
• Proficient in MS Office Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point, and SharePoint.
• Experience with Power BI is a plus.

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