Analyst / Associate of Asset Management

Job Description

Position Overview:

A real estate private equity company with a market capitalization of over $3.2 billion is seeking a highly motivated Asset Management professional. The candidate will primarily focus on office assets and will be based in Chicago, Illinois or New York, NY. Only resumes submitted with cover letters will be considered.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage capital projects for a portfolio of Class A office properties.
• Assist in optimizing operations of portfolio, including but not limited to capital tracking, corporate modeling, standardizing reporting and other operating procedures. 
• Support Asset Manager in conducting market and demographic research for the portfolio location and competitive set.
• Prepares financial analysis to support leasing decisions.
• Analyzes budgets-to-actual results and financial information on a monthly basis and report noteworthy variances.
• Negotiate terms of lease contracts with support from agency broker and legal team
• Build and direct teams of external real estate brokers to execute company leasing strategies.
• Regularly and efficiently communicates with all parties involved in a project (i.e. sponsor, stakeholders, team members, etc.).
• Monitors all leasing activity to ensure maximum occupancy and income and conduct credit checks for all potential tenants.
• Renders assistance during acquisition and disposition of properties.
• Model a full lifecycle financial analysis for projects/assets in the portfolio and work with property management and leasing teams to establish annual budgets.
• Manage Argus models for Midwest portfolio.

 Qualifications:

• 2-5 years of relevant direct real estate investing, brokerage, private equity, investment banking, financing, or construction management experience
• Extensive understanding of real estate, with a proven track record of successful real estate management.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office software, including Word and Excel. A working knowledge of ARGUS is a plus.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills are required.
• Strong interpersonal skills are required for establish and maintaining relationship with relevant parties (management, property management, brokers, landlords, tenants, etc.)
• Highly developed negotiation skills is required.