Job Description
Senior Associate, CRE Underwriting (Structured/Bridge Multifamily transactions) - NYC
This role will sit 5 days in NYC (eventually possibly pulling back to 4 days in NYC over time)
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree required
- Ideally seeking 5+ years of working knowledge of commercial real estate debt transactions/multifamily underwriting
- Extensive prior underwriting experience pertaining to large/big-ticket/complex transitional multifamily transactions will be key (bridge, structured, mezzanine, preferred equity, etc).
- Excellent work ethic, attention to detail, and organizational skills; ability to handle multiple transactions and multi-task in a fast-paced environment
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills. Expertise in financial modeling and risk analysis
- Effective communication skills needed to succinctly present deal dynamics
- Ability to successfully handle interactions with a variety of people in differing roles (deal sponsors, origination staff, top-level executives, existing and potential investors, etc.)
Responsibilities:
- Develop and structure financing proposals for presentation internally to the Fund’s Credit committee, and externally to potential debt and equity partners
- Work alongside portfolio managers and other team members collaborating CRE debt transactional process
- Collect and analyze transaction due diligence and assist in the underwriting of pipeline transactions, identifying and communicating deal strengths and risks/mitigants
- Produce short and long-form Investment Memoranda and financial models for active presentations at Investment Committee meetings
- Support the Fund’s existing investment asset management functions by analyzing performance, credit and market conditions across the seasoned loan portfolio
- Collaborate with origination, underwriting, and senior management (CEO, CFO, COO) internally
- Interact and communicate with borrowers to address sensitive and non-routine matters in addition to risk related items
- Assist in business development and fund marketing, with significant external exposure to existing investors, prospective equity partners and clients
- Review, mentor, and guide the supporting analysts
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