Investment Analyst - Real Estate Debt

About the Company:

Our client is a specialist in real estate finance, providing a wide range of debt and insurance advisory services across the investment and development network, working with specialist real estate lenders with diverse funding capabilities across a variety of sub-sectors and financing scenarios.

With extensive industry connections, insider knowledge and a thorough and ongoing review of debt structures, their creative solutions bring a unique perspective to every project. They are a highly qualified real estate finance team with a track record of originating client debt on an impressive scale.

Areas of expertise: Structured Property Finance, HNW Mortgages, Development Funding, Asset Finance, Commercial Mortgages, Insurance, Investment Finance, Equity

About the Role:

They are looking for a junior investment professional at the Analyst level to join the real estate debt investment team with the versatility to get involved with other aspects of the business. This role would suit a highly analytical individual with excellent academic qualifications and a genuine interest in, and experience with, real estate investments.

The role will include research, financial analysis and transactions underwriting predominantly for real estate (mezz and senior) debt opportunities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing, amending and updating models (ranging in complexity) for RE Debt transactions; running scenarios on the models and producing outputs for external and internal purposes
• Creating new models based on ad hoc transactions
• Performing sensitivity and scenario analysis
• Performing analytical review on the integrity of internal models using complex formulas
• Executing quantitative deal analysis and ad hoc modelling
• Executing qualitative transaction analysis with the ability to form a sound opinion on the borrower and the property, by performing thorough Due Diligence on both, incl: Sector, geographical and economic evaluation to evaluate impact on transactions and portfolio
• Providing commercial and analytical support on key projects and initiatives and producing tools to analyse specific business opportunities
• Assessing new business opportunities and producing clear summaries to enable decision-making
• Producing clear and articulate marketing material such as teasers, presentations, and credit papers. This will include elements of research and information collation
• Collating data for and assisting in the preparation of Credit Committee reports
• Attending and actively contributing to internal and external project meetings
• Supporting commercial negotiations, client proposals and presentations
• Developing relationships with clients and funding partners
• Liaising with legal and professional advisors
• Assisting with the ongoing monitoring of Real Estate development projects and management of the interim loan drawdowns.
• Collation of Loan Monitoring data for presentation at monthly management monitoring meetings.