Analyst - Acquisitions

Hines; Neuilly-sur-Seine; On-site; EUR 48,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Hines is seeking an Analyst to join the French Investment team, contributing to investment and development activities across France. You will participate in underwriting, due diligence, and transaction execution, with increasing responsibility and exposure to a broad range of opportunities across asset classes and strategies.

The role offers the chance to build financial models, support investment memoranda, and coordinate with internal teams, advisers and banks.

Qualifications

• Master's degree from a leading French engineering or business school is required.
• 1+ years of relevant professional experience in real estate investment or development; internship also considered.
• Strong financial modelling and analytical skills; understanding of returns, cash flows, financing and valuation.

Responsibilities

• Support screening, underwriting and evaluation of investment and development opportunities across real estate sectors.
• Build financial models covering acquisition, development, financing, tax.
• Undertake comparable investment and leasing analysis to support decisions.
• Prepare investment committee memoranda and materials for funds and capital partners.
• Support due diligence with internal teams, advisers and external counterparties.
• Assist in structuring and execution of asset-level financings and lender negotiations.
• Maintain market intelligence on transactions, rents, yields, occupier trends and capital markets.
• Leverage AI-enabled tools to improve analysis and workflows.

Skills

Financial modelling

Excel & PowerPoint

Bilingual French/English

Real estate investment

Analytical skills

Education

Master's degree (France) in engineering or business

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Overview

Hines has been active in France since 1995. The France team combines local market expertise with Hines’ global investment and development platform, and works across the real estate lifecycle, including acquisitions, development, asset management and property management.

Since the early 2010s, Hines has completed more than €4 billion in acquisitions in France across all asset classes. These include office assets such as Eurosquare, Sequana, Window, 32 Blanche, Tour CBX, La Manufacture, La Distillerie, 83 Marceau and 32 Iéna; retail assets such as Marché Saint-Germain, the Apple Store on the Champs-Élysées, 28 Madeleine, 213 and 223 rue Saint-Honoré and Chasse Sud retail park; the France Métropole residential portfolio; the “aparto Paris Liberté” and Courbevoie Delage student residences; and the Optimus and Onyx portfolios in logistics.

Investments are made through Hines’ open-ended or closed-ended pan-European funds (HECF, HEPP and HEREP series) or one-off investments for third-party investors. Given the diversity of our investors, we consider all investment strategies (core, core-plus, value-add, opportunistic) and all asset classes (office, logistics, residential and living sectors, and retail).

Responsibilities

Hines is looking to hire an Analyst to join its French Investment team, contributing to investment and development activities across the French real estate market.

The Analyst will play an active role throughout the investment process in evaluating and executing investment opportunities across all asset classes and investment strategies, from initial screening and underwriting through due diligence, investment committee approval and transaction execution.

The role offers early exposure to a broad range of investment activities, with progressively greater responsibility for specific analytical and transaction workstreams and opportunities for professional growth within the team.

• Support the screening, underwriting and evaluation of investment and development opportunities across real estate sectors and risk profiles;
• Build financial models covering acquisition, development, financing, tax;
• Undertake comparable investment and leasing transactions and investment analysis to support investment decisions;
• Produce, with the support of senior team members, the investment committee memoranda and materials for Hines funds and other capital partners;
• Support transaction execution and coordinate the due diligence with internal teams, advisers and external counterparties;
• Support the structuring and execution of asset-level financings, including preparing requests for proposals (RFPs), presenting financing opportunities to prospective lenders, and supporting discussions and negotiations with banks on financing terms and loan documentation;
• Maintain market intelligence on transactions, rents, yields, occupier trends and capital markets;
• Use appropriate technology and AI-enabled tools to improve the efficiency, quality and accuracy of analysis, research and routine workflows.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements include:

• A master’s degree from a leading French engineering or business school is required.
• 1+ years of relevant professional experience in real estate investment or development, ideally with a comparable real estate investment firm, asset manager, investment manager or real estate private equity fund;
• Entry-level candidates will also be considered, provided they have completed an investment internship in a comparable environment.
• Strong financial modelling and analytical skills, including a sound understanding of investment returns, cash flows, financing and valuation; these skills will be assessed during the interview process;
• Solid understanding of real estate investment, development and asset management, with a genuine interest in the sector;
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with an interest in leveraging AI and emerging technologies to improve efficiency;
• Fluent in French and English, with strong written and verbal communication skills;
• Commercially minded, detail-oriented and proactive, with the ability to take ownership of assignments and manage competing priorities under tight deadlines;
• Collaborative and adaptable, with the ability to work effectively in an entrepreneurial environment alongside colleagues, investors and external advisers.

Closing

At Hines, we believe the built world is ultimately about people. As one of the world’s largest privately held real assets firms, we bring nearly seven decades of investment, development, and management experience to work that shapes cities and communities around the world.

Our people make that possible. Across 29 countries, more than 4,600 colleagues bring different perspectives and expertise to Hines, with opportunities to take on meaningful responsibility, learn from leaders across the business, and build a career with room to evolve. We support that journey through professional development, competitive rewards, comprehensive benefits, and a culture grounded in trust and high standards.

Hines is proud to be named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2024.

We are an equal opportunity employer and support workforce diversity.