Acquisitions Analyst or Associate

Job Description

Job Title: Acquisitions Analyst or Associate

Job Description

GEM Realty Capital, Inc. (“GEM”) is seeking to add an Analyst or Associate (depending upon experience) to the Acquisitions group of its private equity real estate investment team.

Requirements

• 1-3 years of relevant work experience with acquisitions experience across multiple sectors highly preferred.
• Significant experience with Excel, specifically financial and cash flow modeling.
• Argus experience required.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Motivation and initiative to meet deadlines and overcome challenges.
• Must be willing to live and work in Chicago, IL.
• Willing to travel to tour properties and markets.

Job Responsibilities

• Underwrite and execute real estate acquisition and development opportunities across all real estate sectors, including multifamily, single-family rental, office, hotel, senior housing, lab/life sciences, other specialty property types, and distressed debt.
• Create detailed valuation models with complex deal structures.
• Conduct in-depth property-level, market, and industry due diligence.
• Advise on merits and considerations of each prospective investment.
• Prepare comprehensive investment memoranda and help present opportunities to the investment committee.
• Interface with brokers, joint venture partners, attorneys, lenders, and other market participants.

Company Description

Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Chicago, GEM Realty Capital is an integrated real estate investment firm. GEM invests in private-market real estate assets through GEM Realty Properties (“GRP”) and in publicly traded real estate securities through GEM Realty Securities (“GRS”). GRP is currently investing on behalf of its seventh opportunistic investment fund, with an equity commitment target of $1 billion. GEM’s investors include pension funds, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, financial institutions, and private clients. In total, GEM has approximately $6 billion in assets under management.

Over the past 27 years, GRP has completed more than 160 private real estate transactions in a variety of property sectors and geographic markets with a total investment cost of over $8 billion. GRS invests primarily in publicly traded equity and debt securities of real estate related companies, including REITs, homebuilders, and real estate operating companies.

GEM’s private/public platform provides perspective, relationships, and real time information critical to identifying and underwriting compelling real estate investment opportunities for GRP. GEM’s senior investment professionals average nearly 30 years of real estate investment experience and together have successfully invested in real estate through several economic cycles. GEM’s investment committee sets top-down investment strategies for both GRP and GRS, drawing from its expertise in the private and public markets. As real estate and capital markets evolve, GEM develops investment themes, refines investment strategies, and executes investments to capitalize on both near and long-term trends.

GEM values a diverse workforce and encourages all applicants to apply.  Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, disability, creed, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, religion, national origin, citizenship, marital status, veteran status or any protected category by local, state or federal laws.