Investment Officer - Real Estate

Job description

Do you have sound knowledge of investment strategies? Do you have a track record in and enthusiasm for real estate investment? Are you interested in being on the cutting edge of indirect real estate investment, with access to high quality managers, broad transaction types and international exposure?

We’re looking for an Investment Officer to:

• assist with the origination and execution of fund investments, co-investments, JVs, recapitalisations, and operational, GP stake, and secondaries investments in real estate private market transactions across EMEA
• contribute to thought leadership with our internal regional teams, evaluating existing portfolios and helping build external deal flow in a methodical and systematic way by market, asset class and via preferred and/or exclusive formats
• remain current on market developments to help frame sourcing and investment strategies
• convert industry insights into comprehensive investment recommendations and risk assessments
• lead, contribute to and develop work flows for liaising with internal committees, legal, operations, and tax / structuring staff, as well as external parties including fund managers, brokers / advisors, consultants, sellers, LPs and lenders. Negotiate terms, and underwrite investments at an asset- and portfolio-level, as well as test and scrutinise the underwriting of related partners and managers
• lead deal investment processes, including legal, tax, commercial, operational and structuring due diligence, managing the production, refinement and finalisation of due diligence materials
• manage and co-ordinate junior support and training, particularly around investment underwriting
• contribute to the development of underwriting templates for modelling, analysis and valuation across single assets, portfolios, operational real estate and funds, including roll-up analyses and financing overlays, and manage their implementation and use in transactions
• drive production of Investment Committee memorandums and recommendations of transactions to the UGA-RE Global Investment Committee
• contribute to the systematic processes and structures that help our oversight, monitoring and management of corporate and operational actions, as well as summary and forecast materials for client and investment reporting materials and meetings. Support asset and risk management, and the reporting of investments
• support fundraising efforts.