Acquisitions Analyst

Acquisition Analyst

Cityview

Los Angeles, California

Summary:

Responsible for the financial modeling and due diligence efforts on new acquisition opportunities. Participates in the analysis of potential investments, prepare appropriate budgets, business plans and underwriting strategy for potential development and value-add opportunities. Assist the acquisitions team in documenting the decision process to ensure information is presented accurately for appropriate decisions by executive team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following but are not limited to:

• Accurately prepare financial analyses for potential acquisition and development projects, including various investment and return scenarios.

• Create business models for review by acquisitions team including risk assessments, pro forma models, and operational forecasts.

• Collaborate with external consultants, development, and asset management teams to determine underwriting assumptions.

• Based on qualitative research and collaboration with asset management and development, to create budgets to verify assumptions and recommendations to provide data in support of acquisition decisions.

• Understand and assess different sources of data to ascertain challenges to determine strategic outcome of investment.

• Identify key risks for potential acquisition investments to be used in preliminary site identification.

• Conduct comprehensive market research to identify competitive market trends and incorporate input from external sources to project assumptions not limited to market studies, rental comps, and other key factors.

• Prepare investment deal summary reports for Investment Committee and appropriate presentations, as needed.

• Develop and maintain investment presentations and marketing collateral materials for internal and external audience.

• Prepare materials for weekly team meetings, investment pipeline reports, lead outreach report, due diligence checklists and agendas.

• Develop best practices to standardize reports and manage workflow.

• Other duties, as assigned.

Competencies:

• Strong understanding of financial systems and models with solid analytical

acumen.

• Proactively communicates with clarity and focus to ensure delivery has the

appropriate impact while actively listening to others. Strong written and

verbal communication skills.

• Ability to work independently while being a team contributor.

• Strong work ethic, integrity, and commitment to meet deadlines.

• Highly developed interpersonal skills and abilities, demonstrating confidence

in building and effectively maintaining positive relationships.

• Ability to independently prioritize multiple tasks and meet changing

priorities and deadlines.

Skills and Experience:

• 1-2 years of real estate experience

• College degree or equivalent experience, preferred business, or finance

focus.

• Strong technical and data manipulation skills beyond MS Office, specifically

Excel experience and additional real estate applications a plus.

• Strong visual presentation skills in PowerPoint, or other software.

• Demonstrated ability to identify critical information with an ability to quickly

research and collect pertinent information, integrate essential information,

and use information to define and test options and alternatives.

• Previous experience modeling investment opportunities and justification for

the most productive course of action.

• Excellent analytical reasoning to identify and resolve issues.

• Insightful and creative skill in reasoning and logic and quantitative analysis.

Utilize problem-solving skills to analyze investments on a risk-adjusted basis.

CityView is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.