Financial Analyst

Support asset management and investment decision making at Riverside (“RIDC”). Work directly with asset management and the Executive team to manage the financial progress, modeling, and projections for existing Class A office assets, mixed-use and residential properties (potentially development projects as well). Financially evaluate decisions related to new tenants, renewals and capital projects on existing properties and other cash flow decisions. Also, responsible for gathering and presenting research data in Riverside’s markets.

Key Responsibilities--Analysis

• Maintain and update complex development models for large-scale, office and residential projects- including various stepped layers of preferred and common equity waterfalls/returns. Both office and residential.
• Manage financial planning for leases and capital projects.
• Support recapitalization, valuation and disposition analysis and scenarios on assets.
• Maintain cash flow model and Argus for each office asset.
• Evaluate financial merits of potential new leases and renewals and how they may effect investment value and returns.
• Collect and integrate project data, including cash flow requirements, operating income and expense projections, as well as financing assumptions for project pro formas.
• Track monthly and quarterly results explaining variances, and assumption changes.
• Support asset management team responsibilities including budget, business plan preparation, lease evaluation, and ad-hoc financial analysis.
• Assist asset management to develop and adjust strategic plan for each asset by analyzing short and long-term returns.
• Arrange a variety of third-party reports such as market studies, property tax analysis, etc.
• Maintain project budgets and schedules and report on variances.
• Effectively communicate with key stakeholders including partners and lenders. This includes reporting, investor relations and lender communications.
• Transaction support, including review of partnership legal, loan and service agreements.
• Assist in assembling RFP response submissions for office leases.
• Assist RIDC leasing team with market research, data collection and related analysis.
• Research comparable market data for deal underwriting and identify risks associated with investment opportunities.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of commercial real estate finance experience with directly relevant transaction-oriented institutional financial partners. Absolute minimum of 3 years of real estate analysis experience required. 
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, real estate, accounting or economics from an accredited institution required.

MBA with concentration in real estate, finance, accounting, or economics welcomed but not required.

Skills

• Extensive knowledge of modeling techniques for debt, equity and hybrid capital structure products and joint venture equity promote/waterfall structures required. Office product modeling a plus.
• Technologically oriented with advanced proficiency in Argus and MS Office, with an emphasis in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
• Creative problem solver with an analytical background.
• Experience in modeling real estate developments, acquisitions, and re-capitalizations.
• Precision and attention to detail as well as strong writing and communication skills are paramount.
• Highly motivated, self-starter preferred.
• Ability to prioritize and coordinate multiple projects and tasks at once.

Work environment consists of in-person office attendance with limited travel expected.