Real Estate Fund / Portfolio Analyst

Supporting the Investment Director & C-Suite across the performance of Real Estate and Operational assets in the fund. Critical role; ownership of the master fund model - providing financial analysis across a range of metrics & deliverables, including IR, AM / Dev and business planning, scenario analysis and liquidity analysis.

Client Details

Our client is a specialist PE Real Estate investor with c.25 years track-record delivering Opportunistic returns across all asset classes including Commercial, Alternatives & Living, Land & Development, Resi Master-planning & Strat Land. They are now in an exciting period of growth and this is a newly created role as they ramp-up transaction activity in the UK & Europe for a fresh 1.5bn fund.

Description

• Full autonomy and ownership of the Fund model comprising multiple assets across all classes, and in due course Operational assets / companies.
• Support on financial modelling, research and co-ordination of investor reports.
• Proactively liaise and help the Investment & Asset Management / Dev teams to stress-test and validate modelling assumptions on acquisitions and business plans.
• Monthly, Quarterly and ad-hoc Portfolio Performance and Risk analysis for reporting, including producing financial analysis on investor returns.
• Collate and report committed and actual Cap-Ex/spend against approved budgets.
• Where necessary, assist in the preparation of external valuations, liaising with key stakeholders.
• Frequent portfolio updates, collating data from local teams to establish inflows and outflows in the fund and assist the SLT to ensure compliance with investment guidelines.
• Measure performance and understand net asset value calculations.
• Fund and Investor reporting for SLT meetings, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery ready for Investor meetings.
• Help co-ordinate production of materials for Investor presentations, IR slide decks and Investor queries.
• Assist the Investment and AM teams in gathering, collating and reporting on industry and fund research.
• Assist Investment team and SLT with weekly, monthly and quarterly commentaries where necessary.
• Help obtain overview of financial markets and macroeconomic trends.

Profile

The successful Real Estate Portfolio / Fund Analyst should have / be:

• A solid result in a STEM / analytically focused Degree (Built Environment / Real Estate / RE Finance or related highly desirable but not necessity)
• Ideally prior experience as a Portfolio or Fund Analyst within a PE Real Estate firm or Investment Manager / Asset Manager.
• Prior exposure to analysing and reporting on UK & European Real Estate products is a must.
• Demonstrable ability in advanced analytical excel work including creating and interpreting complex financial Fund models.
• Incredibly high attention to detail, flagging / checking and amending any anomalies.
• Ability to work and enjoy a fast-paced environment assisting and pitching in with busy teams - a "can-do" and "I'll pitch in" attitude are essential.
• Excellent skills preparing slide decks, reports and ad-hoc comms / materials.
• Ability to work independently as the owner of the Fund model, whilst also having the interpersonal / engagement skills to work closely with SLT / Investment team to complete reports on time are crucial.

Job Offer

Excellent fixed + variable compensation + pension.