Senior Real Estate Analyst

Kirkland & Ellis; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Learning & development opportunities

Job summary

Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago is seeking a Senior Real Estate Analyst to join the Real Estate Department and deliver portfolio analytics, maintain lease data, support transactions, and enhance systems and processes. You will use approved AI tools to speed up reporting while validating outputs and ensuring accuracy.

The role offers collaboration with Finance and IT teams, attention to data integrity, and opportunities to influence how the firm manages its real estate portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, real estate, accounting, or a related field.
• Three to five years of corporate real estate, lease administration, or portfolio analytics experience.
• Experience reviewing commercial lease documents and supporting real estate transactions through due diligence and transaction documentation.
• Strong financial-modeling skills and understanding of occupancy, space-utilization, and portfolio-performance metrics.
• Experience with IWMS, lease-administration, CAFM, or space-scheduling platforms.
• Advanced Excel skills with pivot tables, lookups, and financial modeling; PowerPoint; experience with Power BI or Tableau preferred.
• AI fluency: using tools like Microsoft Copilot to improve analysis, reporting, or workflow efficiency, including prompting and evaluating AI outputs.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, maintain attention to detail, and adopt new technology for high-quality results.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Prepare financial analyses, market research, executive reports, dashboards, reconciliations, and supporting materials for portfolio and transaction decisions.
• Analyze leases, occupancy, utilization, and portfolio trends while building financial models for renewals, relocations, lease alternatives, and occupancy-cost scenarios.
• Maintain lease abstracts, critical dates, rent schedules, portfolio databases, and supporting documentation with accuracy and completeness.
• Review operating expenses, real estate tax reconciliations, billing, and lease-related invoices; provide reliable lease data for accounting, audit, tax, and risk-management needs.
• Coordinate due diligence, documentation, schedules, and information gathering while preparing summaries and maintaining internal transaction trackers for real estate deals.
• Support Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) administration, data-integrity initiatives, process documentation, budgeting, forecasting, and development of new real estate playbooks.
• Collaborate with Finance, IT, Facilities and other stakeholders to strengthen data standards, reporting, and real estate systems.
• Apply Firm-approved AI tools to accelerate lease abstraction, research, reconciliations, data validation, and report drafting, with careful validation of outputs.
• Identify opportunities to automate recurring workflows, develop prompts/templates, and recommend AI features that support reporting and lease administration while upholding confidentiality and security policies.

Skills

Financial modeling

Analytical thinking

Communication

Ownership and organization

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, real estate, accounting, or related field

Tools

IWMS

CAFM

Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

About Kirkland & Ellis

At Kirkland & Ellis, we don’t just meet the standard for legal excellence — we set it. Our culture is built on teamwork, ingenuity and an unwavering commitment to continuous growth. We tackle the most sophisticated legal challenges with bold ideas and innovative solutions, powered by the exceptional experience and ambition of our 7,000+ people, including 4,000+ attorneys, across 24 offices worldwide. Our dedicated professionals share our lawyers’ commitment to excellence and show up each day to do meaningful work that helps drive global business, investment and innovation forward.

What You’ll Do

Ready to turn complex real estate data into insights that shape strategic portfolio decisions?

As a Senior Real Estate Analyst, you’ll join the Real Estate Department in Chicago and partner with senior real estate leaders and Finance colleagues to deliver portfolio analytics, maintain accurate lease data, support transactions, and strengthen systems and processes. You’ll also use approved artificial intelligence (AI) and automation tools to make reporting and lease-data management faster, more accurate, and more insightful. This role offers an opportunity to influence how the Firm understands and manages its real estate portfolio.

• In-office at least three days per week
• Turn data into decisions: Prepare financial analyses, market research, executive reports, dashboards, reconciliations, and supporting materials for portfolio and transaction decisions.
• Analyze portfolio performance: Evaluate leases, occupancy, utilization, and portfolio trends while building financial models for renewals, relocations, lease alternatives, and occupancy-cost scenarios.
• Manage lease information: Maintain lease abstracts, critical dates, rent schedules, portfolio databases, and supporting documentation with a strong focus on accuracy and completeness.
• Support financial controls: Review operating expenses, real estate tax reconciliations, billing, and lease-related invoices; provide reliable lease data for accounting, audit, tax, and risk-management needs.
• Advance real estate transactions: Coordinate due diligence, documentation, schedules, and information gathering while preparing summaries and maintaining internal transaction trackers.
• Improve systems and processes: Support Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) administration, data-integrity initiatives, process documentation, budgeting, forecasting, and the development of new real estate playbooks.
• Collaborate across the organization: Work with Finance, Information Technology (IT), Facilities, and other stakeholders to strengthen data standards, reporting, and real estate systems.
• AI Fluency: Apply Firm-approved tools such as Microsoft Copilot to accelerate lease abstraction, research, reconciliations, data validation, and report drafting, carefully validating all AI-generated output before use.
• Explore new capabilities: Identify opportunities to automate recurring workflows, develop effective prompts and templates, and recommend practical AI features that support reporting and lease administration while following confidentiality, information-security, and responsible-use policies.

What You’ll Bring

• Education: A bachelor’s degree in finance, real estate, accounting, or a related field.
• Relevant experience: Three to five years of corporate real estate, lease administration, or portfolio analytics experience. Corporate real estate portfolio experience is required; residential real estate experience is not considered relevant for this role.
• Lease and transaction knowledge: Experience reviewing commercial lease documents and supporting real estate transactions through due diligence and transaction documentation.
• Analytical capability: Strong financial-modeling skills and an understanding of occupancy, space-utilization, and portfolio-performance metrics.
• Real estate technology: Experience with IWMS, lease-administration, Computer-Aided Facility Management (CAFM), or space-scheduling platforms.
• Business tools: Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and financial modeling, along with strong Microsoft PowerPoint capabilities; experience with Power BI or Tableau is preferred.
• AI fluency: Experience using tools such as Microsoft Copilot to improve analysis, reporting, or workflow efficiency, including writing effective prompts and critically evaluating AI-generated output.
• Ownership and organization: The ability to manage competing priorities, maintain close attention to detail, improve processes, adopt new technology, and take responsibility for high-quality results.
• Communication and collaboration: Clear written and verbal communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to build effective working relationships across functions and organizational levels.

Compensation

The base salary range below represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position in Chicago. This range may differ based on your geographic location and cost of living considerations. At Kirkland & Ellis, we consider compensation more than just a base salary. We offer an exceptional range of flexible benefits including comprehensive healthcare, paid time off, and retirement. We also offer personal support and tailored learning and development opportunities all designed to help you realize your full potential both in life and at work.

Compensation Range:

• Chicago: $100,000 - $125,000

Equal Employment Opportunity

All employment decisions, including the recruiting, hiring, placement, training availability, promotion, compensation, evaluation, disciplinary actions, and termination of employment (if necessary) are made without regard to the employee’s race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy or childbirth, personal appearance, family responsibilities, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, political affiliation, source of income, place of residence, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military veteran status, unfavorable discharge from military service, physical or mental disability, or on any other basis prohibited by applicable law.