Lending Analyst - Real Estate Debt Fund

Role & Responsibilities

We are looking for a Lending Analyst to work within our Real Estate Debt lending team with the versatility to get involved with many 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 underwriting tasks predominantly with real estate lending and investment opportunities.

Other responsibilities include:

• Designing, amending and updating models (ranging in complexity) for transactions and other business needs; running scenarios on the models and producing outputs for external and internal purposes
• Creation of transaction models based on standard templates
• Performing sensitivity and scenario analysis
• Performing formula and analytical review on the integrity of internal models
• Qualitative and Quantitative deal analysis and ad hoc modelling
• Researching and analysing new business opportunities and producing clear summaries to enable decision-making
• Production of clear and articulate marketing material such as teasers, presentations, and credit papers. This will include elements of research and information collation
• Supporting commercial negotiations and client proposals and presentations
• Developing relationships with clients and funding partners
• Transaction Due Diligence including liaison with legal and professional advisors
• Data Room evaluations
• Sector, geographical and economic evaluation as to impact on transactions and portfolio
• Provide additional support to the wider business as directed by Management
• Providing commercial and analytical support on key projects and initiatives and producing tools to analyse specific business opportunities
• Attending and actively contributing to internal and external project meetings
• Assisting in the production of investor relations material
• Collating data for and assisting in the preparation of Credit Committee reports
• Portfolio reviews and reporting

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong academic background
• Prior experience in Real Estate lending across the capital structure
• Robust financial analysis and financial modelling skills
• Strong analytical, quantitative and verbal communication skills
• Ability to balance multiple tasks and projects simultaneously
• Ability to work under pressure and towards deadlines
• An affinity to working in a small team where you will be expected to support all aspects of the senior investment team's work
• Acute attention to detail

For more information on this role and the firm, please send across an updated CV and one of the team will be in contact to discuss next steps.