Asset Management Analyst (Life Science and Technology)

Company Overview:

Our client is a vertically integrated real estate investment, development and management firm that delivers maximum value for its investors and tenants across a diversified portfolio by leveraging over five decades of experience, a strong leadership team, and talented employee base. Headquartered in Boston, the firm invests across the United States, and prides itself on taking a nimble, collaborative approach to delivering best-in-class results from complex opportunities. With $12.8 billion in gross asset value invested through real estate equity, debt and fixed-income securities, the firm today owns a real estate portfolio of approximately 15.2 million square feet of healthcare and life science, industrial, retail, office and hospitality properties and more than 5,800 residential units across the United States.

Position Overview:

Our client is seeking a full-time Analyst to assist with the asset management of their Alternatives Vertical, which is a multi-asset class portfolio representing a combination of both Fund and Non-Fund investments. Currently, the Vertical’s portfolio includes; hotels, RV campgrounds, direct debt investments, development sites, and retail properties. This role will work with and report to the Vertical portfolio manager a Vice President, Asset Management. This role is expected to work exclusively in the asset management group, including supporting all leasing and sale efforts.

Responsibilities:

Specific responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Integral point-person that coordinates and communicates with various departments to execute the asset-level business plan and implement actions to create value.
• Assist senior Asset Management team through creation of financial analyses on portfolio operations, including creation of cash flow, hold/sell and distribution models.
• Monitor the performance of existing investments and identify potential areas of concern or opportunity.
• Prepare quarterly valuations and reports by updating model assumptions, inputting property-level activity, and completing investor reports.
• Assist team members in dispositions or refinancing processes.
• Maintain databases, records, and assist Investor Relations in completing portfolio management activities.
• Conduct market research, data mining, and collect competitive property transaction information.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 3 years of real estate experience, with a preference for experience within the various asset classes.
• Understanding of commercial real estate industry (supply/demand, revenue and expense drivers, forecasting, reporting, leasing and marketing).
• Ability to create detailed financial models demonstrating exceptional proficiency with Excel; proven comprehension of complex analyses (e.g. different debt structures, ground leases, waterfalls, etc.).
• Ability to synthesize information, create structure for analyses, draw informed conclusions, and present to senior leaders.
• Ability to solve practical problems and manage multi-variable situations with limited standardization.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, with acute attention to detail.
• Project management skills and the ability to multitask and prioritize workload efficiently and effectively with little direction.
• Experience managing complex capital/redevelopment projects for an ownership group preferred.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 20% of the time.