Analyst / Associate of Asset Management

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. 

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.