Real Estate Development Finance Analyst

Real Estate Development Finance Analyst

San Jose,United States

Permanent

Skills

Financial Analyst 

About the job

Your role

The Real Estate Development Finance Analyst is an Excel modeling expert, who is highly organized, highly detail-oriented, and can manage multiple projects while always meeting deadlines. You have the ability to work in multiple systems to maintain the operation and management of Development and Construction activities. You perform a vital role in keeping the projects moving forward, by working closely with the Development & Finance team to increase the company's productivity and community impact.

This role also involves close communication with the Real Estate Development Team, the development managers, and the finance team to achieve the goals of our development projects, under the direction and supervision of the CFO. In your role, you will be responsible for substantial forecasting, determining preliminary income and expense projections, assessing economic, demographic and real estate market data, and maintaining and regularly updating proformas during the lifecycle of investments through the project lifecycle.

Who you are

You are a highly self-motivated, tenacious, and driven individual who is goal-oriented, methodical and possesses extraordinary attention to detail. Your Excel and modeling skills are exemplary. In addition to an established set of administrative and organizational skills, you are agile, capable, articulate, and can embrace uncertainty in a fast-paced, rapidly growing Silicon Valley startup environment. Your ability to analyze and think strategically with respect to legal, tax, and administrative structures and other related processes is top-notch, you are an excellent communicator, which you demonstrate with your superb written, oral, and listening skills. You communicate confidently with stakeholders at all levels.

What you’ll do

Assist the Development Finance Team in the analysis of potential acquisition and development opportunities including:

Determining preliminary income and expense projections

Evaluating in-place and market rents

Assessing economic, demographic, and real estate market data

Analyzing and tracking sales comp data

Preparing, and ensuring the accuracy of, the valuation models/proformas

Actively participate with the Development Finance Teams in evaluating and closing real estate transactions (both acquisitions and dispositions)

Prepare preliminary financial packages for Investment decisions by senior leadership

Maintain and regularly update proformas during the lifecycle of investments, from the initial valuation and due diligence process through business plan execution and disposition

Prepare cash flow projections and business plans to evaluate investment alternatives and exit strategies

What you’ll bring

Bachelor’s degree with high academic achievement

2+ years of professional experience, ideally with a portion of that time in the real estate investment business

High proficiency in Excel modeling

Experience with cash flow modeling

Basic finance/real estate conceptual knowledge

Experience in investment and asset management a plus

Advanced knowledge of Google Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat, and DocuSign