Graduate Investment Analyst, Netherlands

at  Greystar Real Estate Partners LLC

ABOUT GREYSTAR

Greystar is a leading, fully integrated global real estate company offering expertise in property management, investment management, development, and construction services in institutional-quality rental housing, logistics, and life sciences sectors. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, Greystar manages and operates more than $290 billion of real estate in 247 markets globally with offices throughout North America, Europe, South America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Greystar is the largest operator of apartments in the United States, manages more than 857,400 units/beds globally, and has a robust institutional investment management platform comprised of more than $76 billion of assets under management, including over $34 billion of development assets. Greystar was founded by Bob Faith in 1993 to become a provider of world-class service in the rental residential real estate business. To learn more, visit www.greystar.com.

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

Start your career in Real Estate Investment on our 2 year Investment Graduate Programme. Greystar is a global leader in investment management, development, construction and property management of rental housing. We’re looking for bright and ambitious graduates to join our rotational Investment Graduate Programme.
This is a central and diverse role that provides support for, and input to, acquisitions, asset management and portfolio management activities, through research, underwriting, modelling and preparing analysis to support and determine the feasibility of new investment strategies and opportunities. The Analyst will also support the analysis and presentation of key performance information both internally and to external investment partners to drive well-informed and value- enhancing decisions on existing strategies.

• Assess the performance of the portfolio(s) against budget and underwriting, highlighting any points of exception or opportunity.
• Gather, compile, investigate and analyse market data to identify investment and development opportunities; and also, to develop and enhance current research sources.
• Prepare analysis of investment management initiatives for internal and external review, including working with detailed multi-tier pro-forma waterfall models.
• Work with colleagues to monitor performance of specific initiatives and deliver key performance metrics to the business covering leasing performance, income, expense and returns.
• Work alongside the team to assess new opportunities - providing key information and operational inputs for underwriting.
• Support internal and external relationship management through the production of reports and commentaries.
• Work with the Capital Projects Group to monitor performance and returns against capital budget expenditure.
• Support the execution of investment strategies including income, cost reduction and value-add initiatives.
• Support the annual rent and budget-setting process.
• Work with stakeholders across the business to improve our reporting systems and data capture to drive visibility and efficiency, including design, legal, tax, finance, HR and others.
• Support the mobilisation of new assets and portfolios into the business.
• Monitor and report on key market, industry and competitor data.
• Complete various financial, accounting, narrative, administrative and other reports and analysis and duties as assigned or necessary for the successful execution of the business plans.