Associate / Senior Associate, Investments (Real Estate Credit) Full Time

The individual will work in Brookfield’s real estate credit investment platform, Brookfield Real Estate Credit (“BREC”), and will be responsible for supporting the investments team in the origination, underwriting, leverage, and execution of real estate debt investment opportunities across property types and investment vehicles.

• Develop optimization strategies for loan and business capital structures understand the key risks underlying asset performance
• Evaluate and analyze potential new investments
• Create and oversee detailed and complex financial underwriting models for the financing of real estate investments
• Source, negotiate, structure, execute, and monitor financing facilities for various investment vehicles
• Maintain and expand senior mortgage syndication relationships
• Help oversee existing portfolio of SASB CMBS across multiple vehicles; loan and portfolio surveillance, pricing, and reporting
• Understand physical characteristics of properties, and the related competitive advantages and disadvantages
• Critically evaluate existing and potential operating characteristics of a project
• Identify a project’s demand drivers, gather market information through independent fieldwork and direct contact with brokers, appraisers and developers. Synthesize information and draw a conclusion on future market rent, absorption, vacancy and liquidity in the investment market
• Communicate conclusions into a comprehensive narrative to be presented to senior management for consideration and approval. Participate in underwriting and Investment Committee discussions
• Participate in and provide support for the ongoing asset management of each investment

Qualifications & Requirements:

The individual will directly interact with colleagues throughout the organization and therefore should have strong quantitative and analytical skills, be detail-oriented, articulate, and well organized. The candidate must display initiative, good judgment in managing multiple tasks and strong problem-solving skills. The ability to think strategically and to present information in a clear and concise manner is critical. Other qualifications include:

• 2-6 years of relevant work experience. Previous experience in real estate (investment banking, private equity, development, institutional sales, etc.) strongly preferred
• Excellent financial modeling skills including a high degree of proficiency with Excel; Argus experience is a plus
• Desire to understand market landscape, including pricing, participants, relative value, and basics of bond math; experience in Bloomberg and SASB CMBS is a plus
• Self-motivated and driven; ability to work effectively in a fast-moving, demanding and dynamic environment
• Intellectually curious
• Superior quantitative and analytical skills
• Creativity and problem-solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Keen attention to detail
• Impeccable integrity and trustworthiness

Source: Brookfield Career Page