Senior Analyst - Underwriting

Newmark; India; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Newmark in India is seeking an analyst with commercial real estate experience to join a growing origination team. You will support sourcing, structuring, and closing multifamily and CRE loans, handling financial, underwriting and market analysis.

The role requires reviewing reports such as market data from REIS and CoStar, performing cash flow analyses, and preparing loan presentations for committees, while coordinating with team members to develop new client relationships and promptly serve

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Real Estate or related field.
• Able to collaborate in a team environment.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Customer service focused.
• Ability to problem-solve and exercise independent judgement with initiative and accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Assist underwriting in end-to-end underwriting of US Commercial Real Estate loans across multi-family deals.
• Perform financial and cash flow analysis, market information research, borrower-level analysis, real estate documents analysis.
• Analyze and interpret property performance through financial statements and rent rolls.
• Review third-party reports including appraisals, environmental reports, and zoning analyses, ensuring consistency.
• Understand real estate valuation approaches and market reports (e.g., REIS, CoStar).
• Prepare narrative deal write-ups including property description, location, market details, cash flow notes and borrower summary.
• Conduct background credit searches for Sponsors, Guarantors and Borrowers.
• Evaluate strengths/weaknesses/risks and prepare loan committee presentations.
• Engage third parties for reports mandated by lenders.
• Review & underwriting to ensure compliance and preserve value proposition.
• Identify property value through underwriting and complete loan analysis within target timelines.
• Collaborate with team to develop relationships and provide excellent client service.

Skills

Team collaboration

Strong communication

Customer service oriented

Problem solving

Multitasking & prioritization

Education

Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Real Estate or related field

Tools

MS Office (Excel & SharePoint)

Job description

Job Description

We are seeking for an analyst of commercial real estate experience to join a growing origination team in India. He/she will be responsible for supporting the team in all aspects of sourcing, structuring and closing multifamily and commercial real estate loans.

Day-to-day responsibilities include providing financial, underwriting and market analysis to assist in the evaluation and processing of transactions. The analyst will command the details of various lending programs, including Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

Essential Job Duties

• Assist underwriters in end-to-end underwriting of US Commercial Real Estate loans across all the multi-family deals.
• Include financial and cash flow Analysis, market information research, borrower level analysis, real estate documents analysis.
• Analyzing and interpret property performance through financial statements (operating statements and rent roll) and Real Estate Owned Schedules for different property types.
• Review and evaluate third party reports including real estate appraisals, environmental reports, property condition reports, zoning analysis etc. and maintain consistency among the reports.
• Requires advance knowledge of financial real estate terms. Basic understanding of approaches to value of real estate assets.
• Command in reviewing market reports like REIS and CoStar to understand prevailing demand-supply, rents, and vacancy rates.
• Able to do the detailed narrative write-up on complete scenario of the deal involving the property description, location summary, market details, cash flow notes and the borrowers summary.
• Running background credit search for Sponsors, Guarantors and Borrowers.
• Responsible for evaluating strengths, weaknesses and risks associated with the loan and preparing presentations for loan committee and management.
• Engaging the third parties for preparation of different types of reports mandated by the Lenders.
• Review & underwrite loans ensuring compliance and maintaining the value proposition.
• Finding property value through underwriting process and completing loan analysis within specified TAT.
• Work closely with team to develop and pursue new relationships, and to provide exceptional service to existing clients of the firm.

Skills, Education and Experience

• Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Real Estate or other related fields.
• Ability to collaborate in a team environment.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Customer service focused.
• Ability to problem-solve and exercise independent judgement while displaying a high degree of initiative and accuracy.
• Ability to organize and prioritize projects to complete multiple tasks on schedule.
• Technical skills: Advanced in Microsoft Office suite of applications, specifically excel and SharePoint.
• Strong work ethic and pro-active team player able to work effectively under sometimes stressful conditions.