Senior Acquisitions Analyst

Job Description

• 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 consultants, brokers, development, and asset management teams to determine underwriting key 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 the Investment Committee and appropriate presentations, as needed.
• Develop and maintain investment presentations and marketing collateral materials for internal and external audiences.
• 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.

• 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.
• Extraordinary attention to detail and pride of ownership of work product

• 2+ years of experience in multifamily acquisitions and finance.
• 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 skills in reasoning and logic and quantitative analysis. Utilize problem-solving skills to analyze investments on a risk-adjusted basis.