LIHTC Finance Modeling & Structuring Lead

LHH; Washington, Baltimore (District of Columbia, MD); On-site; USD 170,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Short-term Disability

401K plan

Annual bonus

Job summary

LHH partners with a national affordable housing investor to fill a senior LIHTC finance role. The candidate will lead complex LIHTC modeling, deal structuring, and lifecycle analysis from underwriting through post-closing, collaborating across underwriting, asset management, and investor-facing teams.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in LIHTC finance, advanced Excel, and a proven ability to translate data into actionable recommendations for investment decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of LIHTC finance, underwriting, structuring, development, syndication, or investment analysis.
• Strong understanding of LIHTC transaction structures and affordable housing economics.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling capabilities.
• Experience modeling complex real estate or tax-advantaged investments.
• Understanding of partnership economics, investor returns, sources and uses, tax-credit equity, and layered affordable housing capital structures.
• Ability to analyze complex transactions and translate findings into clear recommendations.
• Strong attention to detail and demonstrated ability to troubleshoot financial models.
• Effective communicator comfortable partnering across multiple functional groups.
• Experience with LIHTC partnership accounting and related concepts.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance financial models used to evaluate and structure LIHTC investments.
• Analyze complex affordable housing transactions, including project economics, tax-credit benefits, investor returns, capital structures, and financing assumptions.
• Evaluate transaction structures and model alternative scenarios to support investment and structuring decisions.
• Review and update investment models as transactions progress through underwriting, closing, and post-closing.
• Develop customized modeling solutions for complex or non-standard LIHTC transactions.
• Partner with underwriting, acquisitions, asset management, finance, and investment professionals to resolve modeling and structuring questions.
• Review transaction assumptions and supporting documentation to ensure consistency with investment models.
• Identify opportunities to improve modeling methodologies, templates, controls, and analytical processes.
• Serve as a technical resource to colleagues on LIHTC modeling, transaction economics, and financial analysis.
• Support training and knowledge sharing across the broader investment organization.

Skills

LIHTC finance

Financial modeling

Excel modeling

Analytical thinking

Strong communication

Tools

Excel

Job description

LHH partners with a national affordable housing investor to fill a senior LIHTC finance role. The candidate will lead complex LIHTC modeling, deal structuring, and lifecycle analysis from underwriting through post-closing, collaborating across underwriting, asset management, and investor-facing teams.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in LIHTC finance, advanced Excel, and a proven ability to translate data into actionable recommendations for investment decisions.