Commercial Real Estate Business Writer
Summer Street Advisors, LLC, a strategic advisory firm directing review of real estate and loan portfolios for institutional and entrepreneurial investors is seeking a Business Writer to research and compose 1000 to 2000+ word original, thought leadership articles. Individual must be comfortable working as part of a fast-paced, dynamic team and collaborate effectively. This position is on a contractor basis and reports to the Managing Director.
Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years of professional business writing with direct experience in the financial, banking and/or commercial real estate sectors
- Demonstrated ability to capture complex ideas and express them in a clear, concise and engaging writing style
- Ability to take creative direction from Managing Director, ensuring comprehension of his vision
- Strong self-motivation and drive
- Excellent attention to detail and follow-through
- Ability to manage and meet deadlines
- Strong collaboration, communication and interpersonal skills
Send resume, cover letter and salary requirements to jobs@summerstreetre.com.
Real Estate Advisory Services Director
Strategic advisory firm directing review of real estate and loan portfolios for institutional and entrepreneurial investors is seeking a highly motivated Director to manage client engagement teams, work with a wide variety of real estate clients to deliver advisory services, and lead business development activities on strategic and global priority accounts.
Responsibilities:
- Effectively manage and motivate client engagement teams with diverse skills and backgrounds.
- Provide constructive on-the-job feedback/mentoring to team members and junior consultants within the organization.
- Consistently deliver quality client services.
- Foster relationships with client personnel at appropriate levels.
- Drive high-quality work products within expected timeframes and on budget.
- Monitor progress, manage risk and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
- Stay abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business.
- Demonstrate in-depth technical capabilities and ability to quickly assimilate to new professional knowledge.
- Remain current on new developments in advisory services capabilities and industry knowledge.
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of complex real estate concepts.
- Engagement delivery – executes engagement tasks independently or in a team setting and deliver to high quality standards.
- Evaluate industry and business trends in local market area for potential impact on operations and respond with necessary business changes as indicated.
- Analyze financial performance indicators and local market area activity.
- Clearly support others by providing honest, open, two-way communication.
Qualifications:
- A minimum of ten (10) years comprehensive experience in commercial real estate or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience, sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job.
- Consulting background highly desirable with experience in real estate, capital markets, finance banking, investment management in a consultant and/or industry role.
- Degree in Real Estate, Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business Management, Engineering, Architecture, or Management Information Systems and/or an MBA or MRE degree preferred.
- CPA, Lean, Six Sigma, PMP or other relevant certifications a plus; desire to pursue certifications a plus.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint; working knowledge of Microsoft Project, and Access. Experience with Argus a plus.
Core Competencies:
- Knowledge and understanding of all facets of property and asset management, foreclosure, leasing, brokerage, marketing, and financial reporting.
- Quantitative and qualitative analytical skills facilitate ability to comprehend, analyze and interpret the most complex documents.
- Advanced financial skills and knowledge to review the complex financial reports prepared by others and to make recommendations to executives that impact the line of business.
- Ability to think strategically and to synthesize the business and financial data.
- Possess fundamental business process improvement strategy and project management skills.
- Ability to make effective and persuasive presentations on complex topics to employees, clients, top management and /or public groups.
- Creative problem-solving ability and a collaborative, consultancy mindset.
- Ability to solve advanced problems and deal with a variety of options in complex situations.
- Expert level analytical and quantitative skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Flexibility with respect to travel.
- Flexibility and adaptability at handling multiple priorities and initiatives.
- Demonstrated integrity, values, principles, and work ethic.
Send resume, cover letter and salary requirements to jobs@summerstreetre.com
Internships
Summer Street Advisors, LLC seeks two (2) interns: one (1) for a generalist position to assist in all facets of the firm’s activities, and one (1) for an analytics position with strong Excel based financial modeling skills.
Both positions require candidates to be available for 10 hours, 3 days a week. These are unpaid internship positions, yet, college credit may be available depending on the requirements of your respective college or university.
Generalist Internship
Responsibilities:
- Assist in new business initiatives in the REIT industry
- Support underwriting teams with commercial real estate and loan valuations
- Develop financial models
- Perform commercial real estate market research
- Develop transaction database of distressed banks and portfolio sales
Requirements:
- Highly proficient with Excel and PowerPoint
- Strong presentation skills
- Experience with financial modeling
- Working towards an undergraduate degree or related work experience in commercial real estate, finance or economics a plus
Analytics Internship
Responsibilities:
- Support partners with design, development, modification and maintenance of proprietary commercial real estate finance models
- Support underwriting teams with database management
- Assist partners with loan valuation and underwriting due diligence
Requirements:
- Highly proficient with Excel
- Experience with Visual Basic and the ability to write complex macros
- Experience working with highly complex financial models
Send resume, cover letter and salary requirements to jobs@summerstreetre.com