Senior Analyst/Associate - PJT Park Hill (Real Estate - Project Management)

PJT Partners, Inc; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

PJT Partners is seeking a Real Estate professional to join PJT Park Hill's global real estate team, focusing on fundraising and transaction execution for clients. You will work on capital-raising mandates, perform due diligence, and develop valuation scenarios to support client strategies.

You will coordinate with distribution bankers and other PJT departments, manage multiple mandates, and contribute to strategic initiatives using analytics in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience in real estate within real estate private equity, real estate investment banking, real estate brokerage, or with an institutional investor or investment consultant.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Real Estate, Finance, Business Administration or related field.
• Excellent interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency in building and operating asset and vehicle valuation models.
• Personal and professional integrity; client service mentality.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple projects; guide global teams.

Responsibilities

• Origination: assist with the origination of new real estate mandates.
• Participate in prospective opportunity calls and meetings.
• Lead internal due diligence and underwriting for prospective mandates.
• Analyze feasibility, pricing, and go-forward projections for platform, portfolio and asset-driven recapitalizations.
• Coordinate capital raising processes and create investor materials.
• Advise on optimal structuring to meet client goals and investor appeal.

Skills

Real estate experience

Valuation models

Communication skills

Independent working

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Real Estate/Finance/Business

Tools

Valuation software

Job description

PJT Partners is a global advisory-focused investment bank. Our team of senior professionals delivers a wide array of strategic advisory, shareholder advisory, restructuring and special situations and private fund advisory and placement services to corporations, financial sponsors, institutional investors and governments around the world. We offer a unique portfolio of advisory services designed to help our clients achieve their strategic objectives. We also provide, through PJT Park Hill, private fund advisory and fundraising services for alternative investment managers, including private equity funds, real estate funds and hedge funds. From the beginning, PJT Partners has firmly believed that having the best people is key to building an enduring franchise. Our perspective was, and remains, that a great team brings in both top tier clients and appeals to a wide-range of diverse, talented colleagues. Fostering an inclusive culture, which welcomes differing perspectives and beliefs, enables us to provide the best advice and insights to our clients. To learn more about PJT Partners, please visit our website at www.pjtpartners.com.

Responsibilities

PJT Park Hill provides global alternative asset advisory and fundraising services across five specialized verticals. Our platform is built on our vast experience and deep expertise across asset classes. Since inception we’ve advised on over $500 billion of placement and capital solutions activity. Our platform includes deep expertise across the private equity, real estate and alternative credit/hedge fund asset classes. PJT Park Hill has raised over $375 billion for alternative asset managers. Our Real Estate team is one of the few capital advisors exclusively dedicated to the real estate industry on a global basis, bringing to bear deep insight and expertise in real estate private capital markets across fundraises, programmatic joint ventures, portfolio recaps, and customized capital solutions. This position offers the opportunity to work in our dedicated global real estate team, focusing on global business unit to deliver best-in-class fundraising and transaction execution for our clients.

Key responsibilities

• Origination Assist with the origination of new business (e.g., commingled funds, joint ventures, investment clubs, and real estate operating platform, portfolio, and asset-level recapitalizations)
• Participate in prospective opportunity calls and meetings
• Lead internal due diligence and underwriting for prospective mandates
• Analyze and assess feasibility of potential transactions, including pricing, assumptions on go-forward projections, and exits on platform, portfolio and asset-driven recapitalization mandates

Project Management (GP Advisory)

• Coordinate the overall capital raising process and timeline for each mandate
• Prepare materials and financial underwriting to support investor marketing
• Advise GP on optimal structuring to meet both client goals and maximize investor appeal
• Respond to prospective investor diligence questions, develop tailored valuation analysis and build bespoke scenarios, as applicable
• Integrate indicative offer terms into financial models to assess returns
• Lead dialogue with GP to keep apprised of investor feedback/interest

Investor Distribution Support

• Support our dedicated real estate investor coverage team (“distribution bankers”), or other relevant PJT Partners departments as a subject matter expert
• Support distribution bankers in investor meetings
• Organize global investor roadshows

Ad Hoc Projects

• Support PJT Park Hill project management team across strategic initiatives, including GP market mapping, peer benchmarking, and internal performance analytics leveraging AI tools
• Contribute to firmwide efforts such as corporate-level reporting, strategic planning, and cross-functional support

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of relevant experience in real estate within real estate private equity, real estate investment banking, real estate brokerage, or with an institutional investor or investment consultant
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Real Estate, Finance, Business Administration or related field
• Excellent interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in building and operating asset and vehicle valuation models
• Personal and professional integrity
• Client service mentality
• Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment and to handle multiple projects at a time
• Able to function independently and provide guidance to global project-specific teams of Analysts and Associates

Expected annualized base salary of $130,000 to $225,000. This range represents the low and high ends of the expected annualized base salary for this position. The specific base salary received by any employee will be informed by a number of factors, including but not limited to, role level and scope, location, candidate’s relevant qualifications, skills and experience. Base salary is one component of PJT Partners’ compensation structure. In addition to base salary, PJT Partners’ compensation structure may include additional rewards, incentives and benefits, including but not limited to, a discretionary bonus component.

PJT is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of, and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity expression, disability, medical condition, genetic information or predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other category protected by law. PJT Partners also complies with all applicable laws with regard to providing reasonable accommodation of disabilities to applicants. For more information or to request an accommodation, please contact Human Resources.

California Applicants: PJT Partners will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records in a manner consistent with applicable law including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and/or Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.