Asset Management, Analyst

United Way of Greenville County; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners in Washington, DC (Hybrid) seeks an Asset Management Analyst to drive deep analysis of property performance, build financial models, and influence hold/sell and capital investment decisions.

You will work with the Asset Management team to analyze operating statements, rent rolls, and budgets, identify cost-saving opportunities, and develop tools that simplify performance insights for decision-making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Real Estate, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• 2+ years of relevant experience in real estate, investment banking, private equity, asset management, financial analysis, or property operations.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including financial modeling and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Dive into monthly operating statements, rent rolls, budgets, forecasts, and property-level financial data to understand drivers of performance.
• Build and maintain Excel-based financial models for property-level analysis, forecasting, and investment decisions.
• Identify opportunities to reduce expenses, increase revenue, and enhance asset value across the portfolio.
• Develop property and portfolio-level KPI dashboards and analytical tools for clear insights.
• Collaborate with property management teams to translate data into actionable recommendations.

Skills

Excel proficiency

Analytical mindset

Attention to detail

Real estate analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Real Estate, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Advertised Job Type: Permanent - Full-time regular employment

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Description

Asset Management Analyst

Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners
Washington, DC | Hybrid

About Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners

Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners (\"JL\") is a leading real estate investment and development firm focused on creating and transforming exceptional, walkable urban places. JL owns, develops, and manages a diverse portfolio of residential, commercial, and neighborhood assets.

We are a team of investors, operators, and problem-solvers who believe that great real estate requires more than simply owning an asset- requires continually finding ways to make it better.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an Asset Management Analyst who is excited by the analytical side of real estate and wants to understand what drives performance at the property and portfolio level.

This is not a role focused simply on producing reports. You will be expected to dig into the numbers, ask questions, identify trends, and help determine what we should do about them.

The Analyst will work closely with the Asset Management team to evaluate property performance, build and maintain financial models, analyze operating expenses and revenue trends, support hold/sell and refinancing decisions, evaluate capital investments, and identify opportunities to increase NOI and long-term asset value.

The ideal candidate is someone who loves Excel, is curious about how real estate works, and enjoys turning a large amount of information into a clear investment decision.

What You Will Do

Dive into monthly operating statements, rent rolls, budgets, forecasts, and property-level financial data to understand what is driving performance—and what is changing.

Track actual performance against underwriting, budget, and prior-year results and investigate significant variances.

Identify trends in rents, occupancy, concessions, bad debt, turnover, payroll, repairs & maintenance, utilities, insurance, taxes, marketing, and other operating expenses.

Build analyses that identify opportunities to reduce expenses, increase revenue, improve NOI, and enhance asset value.

Develop property and portfolio-level KPI dashboards and analytical tools that make performance easier to understand and act upon.

Partner with property management teams to investigate unusual results and translate data into actionable recommendations.

Build Models & Evaluate Investment Decisions

Build and maintain Excel-based financial models for property-level analysis, forecasting, and investment decisions.

Support hold/sell analyses, including valuation, projected returns, market assumptions, disposition timing, and alternative investment scenarios.

Analyze potential acquisitions, dispositions, refinancings, capital investments, and other strategic alternatives.

Prepare and update property valuations using NOI, capitalization rates, comparable sales, rent and expense assumptions, and discounted cash flow analyses.

Conduct sensitivity and scenario analyses to understand how changes in rents, occupancy, expenses, cap rates, interest rates, and capital expenditures impact value and returns.

Help evaluate whether capital should be spent on a property and, importantly, whether the expected return justifies the investment.

Assist with acquisition and disposition underwriting and provide analytical support during due diligence.

Find Opportunities to Create Value

Look beyond the obvious numbers to identify savings, inefficiencies, and operational trends across the portfolio.

Analyze property-level expenses to identify opportunities for procurement savings, staffing efficiencies, utility reductions, insurance savings, tax opportunities, and other expense-management initiatives.

Evaluate revenue-enhancement opportunities, including rent growth, ancillary income, occupancy, concessions, and other property-level initiatives.

Compare property performance against peers, budgets, underwriting, and market benchmarks to identify assets that are outperforming or underperforming—and why.

Help develop initiatives designed to improve NOI and maximize long-term property value.

Work with Asset Management and property management teams to measure whether initiatives are actually producing the expected results.

Help Asset Management evaluate the portfolio from an investment perspective, including which assets to invest in, refinance, reposition, hold, or sell.

Conduct market research and analyze comparable properties, rents, occupancy, expenses, sales, and capitalization rates.

Assist in evaluating capital improvement projects, including cost-benefit and return-on-investment analyses.

Support refinancing and disposition analyses, including debt assumptions, proceeds, valuation, and projected investor returns.

Assist with preparation of materials for investment committee, lenders, equity partners, and other stakeholders.

Build Better Tools

Develop and improve Excel models, templates, dashboards, and analytical tools used by the Asset Management team.

Identify opportunities to automate repetitive analyses and improve the quality, consistency, and usefulness of portfolio data.

Help transform large amounts of property-level information into clear insights and actionable recommendations.

Be Part of the Asset Management Team

Participate in property visits and work directly with property management teams to understand how assets operate in the real world.

Review leases, loan documents, contracts, budgets, and other property information to understand their financial and operational implications.

Support annual budgeting and forecasting with an emphasis on understanding the assumptions behind the numbers, not simply collecting them.

Participate in acquisition, disposition, refinancing, capital improvement, and other strategic projects as needed.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for someone who is analytical, curious, entrepreneurial, and highly comfortable working with numbers.

You Will Thrive Here If You:

Love Excel and enjoy building models, analyzing data, and finding the answer in the numbers.

Have a strong interest in real estate investing and asset management.

Can look at a P&L and quickly start asking, \"Why did this change?\" and \"What can we do about it?\"

Enjoy solving problems rather than simply completing assigned tasks.

Have an analytical mindset and strong attention to detail.

Can translate financial analysis into a clear recommendation.

Are comfortable working with large datasets and imperfect information.

Are proactive, resourceful, and willing to dig into an issue until you understand it.

Can manage multiple priorities while maintaining a high level of accuracy.

Communicate clearly and work effectively with investment, asset management, property management, development, construction, and finance teams.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Real Estate, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.

2+ years of relevant experience in real estate, investment banking, private equity, asset management, financial analysis, property operations, or a related field.

Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including financial modeling, formulas, data analysis, and presentation of financial information.

Familiarity with real estate financial concepts, including NOI, capitalization rates, valuation, cash flow, IRR, equity multiples, leverage, and investment returns.

Experience analyzing operating statements, budgets, rent rolls, or property-level financial information is strongly preferred.

Familiarity with multifamily real estate is a plus.

Why This Role Matters

The Asset Management Analyst will have the opportunity to see how real estate investment decisions are made after the acquisition-and how analytical insight can directly influence the performance and value of an asset.

You won't just be asked to report what happened.

You'll be asked to figure out why it happened, what it means, and what we should do next.

At JL, we believe the best asset managers are part investor, part operator, and part detective. If you enjoy Excel, real estate, and finding ways to make good assets better, this could be a great opportunity to join our team.