Underwriting Associate

Amherst is revolutionizing the way U.S. real estate is priced, managed and financed in order to unlock opportunities for all market participants. Driven by data, analytics, and technology, Amherst has a 20-year history of anticipating where the next risks and opportunities are likely to emerge and designing actionable strategies for investors to capitalize on opportunities across residential real estate, commercial real estate and public securities. Amherst, along with its affiliates and subsidiaries, has more than 900 employees, $5 billion under management and approximately $15 billion under advisement and oversight. www.amherst.com.

The Amherst Residential platform provides a comprehensive suite of services to facilitate the ownership of single-family rental properties, including property management services, asset-level financing, and asset management services. With a deep understanding of and proprietary analytics on the single-family home and mortgage markets, Amherst's platform combines a unique combination of national scale with local market knowledge and execution.

The general role of the Associate, Underwriter is to work within the Private Equity team to support real estate transactions with institutional capital partners, primarily comprised of (but not limited to) underwriting single-family rental (SFR) joint venture transactions. The Associate’s responsibilities will span from initial business pitch to joint venture formation and beyond, with a focus on modeling complex SFR JV transactions with existing and prospective Amherst institutional partners. Producing materials and presenting key findings of this underwriting is critical. This role will be designated as a full time in office role based in our Austin, TX location.

Responsibilities

• Perform and provide expertise on all aspects of financial modeling, focusing on unleveraged, leveraged and structured analysis of institutional real estate. Excel modeling expertise is a must.
• Specific focus (but not limited to) financial valuation analysis of potential joint ventures of Amherst’s single-family rental properties.
• Manage the overall investment process by assisting with due diligence (including Amherst platform diligence and real estate-specific diligence), macro and micro market research, and relative valuation analyses, among other key workstreams, in addition to working across teams to gather, synthesize and present relevant information.
• Research and evaluate economic, demographic, and real estate market data, especially single-family rental specific data.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in the underwriting of equity investments in commercial real estate
• Undergraduate degree is required, advanced degree or applicable experience a plus.
• Single-family Rental and / or Multi-family experience a plus
• Strong analytical/quantitative and technical abilities, organizational skills, and attention to detail
• Strong leadership, initiative, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.
• High energy with an ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in common Adobe and Microsoft Applications (Office, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)