Sr Analyst, Asset Management

About Us

Perform Properties is a best-in-class, diversified real estate operating platform with expertise in high-quality, grocery-anchored shopping centers and premier office assets. Perform is positioned to create more engaging experiences for customers, deliver long-term value for tenants, and drive stronger performance across its portfolio.

Perform has expertise in transactions, development, leasing, and management, and benefits from a multi-sector focus, data-driven strategy, and national reach. The company focuses on properties with People-Appeal—dynamic spaces where people and businesses actively choose to work, shop, and gather, enhancing the communities around them.

Formed through the combination of ShopCore, ROIC, and EQ Office, Perform Properties leverages the shared experience, scale, and operational strengths of three leading organizations.

Role Summary

Analyst / Senior Analyst on the Asset Management team will provide analytical support to regional and sub-regional teams charged with maximizing property values. These teams vary in location to cover the United States coast-to-coast, hitting major markets like New York, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, etc. all the while exploring new gateway markets. The role will initially be allocated to the retail sector, with exposure to the office sector and potential to work on both office and retail as the portfolio permits.

Major responsibilities include constructing and validating all cash flow assumptions utilized in projections; creating financial plans with Market Leads that align with property visions and business objectives; material lease analysis; modeling, due diligence and closing of dispositions; and evaluating investment returns, asset sales timing, and values. Position requires ability to act as a project leader, research and challenge assumptions. The Analyst / Senior Analyst will be given direct financial responsibility for multiple assets, acting as a strategic investment advisor within their Portfolio team. The position includes travel and site visits to become an expert on asset position within the market, asset conditions and to build relationships with the Perform team and external brokers.

Essential Job Functions

• Financial Goals - Act as strategic and analytical thought partner and leader to the Market Leads on all financial matters related to the health and success of the company and assets in the market.
• Financial Planning - Create and maintain financial plan(s) with Market Leads that are aligned with the property vision, organizational values, business objectives, and operating plans to grow asset value. This includes coordination with Regional Finance on the annual budgeting and forecasting.
• Strategic Financial Analysis - Support efforts to coordinate strategic analysis as directed by senior leadership and / or Blackstone. This includes but is not limited to hold / sell analysis, yield on cost, repositioning analysis, major lease analysis, contribution / funding requests, and real estate tax (CA Prop 13).
• Investment Analyses - Assist the Revantage Valuations team in their preparation of quarterly valuation models to evaluate total investment return, leverage strategies, cash flow forecasting, asset sales timing and values, and distribution forecasting. Collaborate with the Market Leads on developing assumptions, communicating market developments, and assisting in broker engagements.
• Due Diligence and Underwriting – Support office team in underwriting, due diligence, and closing phases for disposition and debt transactions. Coordinate the flow of information & materials with various parties (buyers, sellers, lenders, attorneys, brokers); review due diligence materials (leases, financials, contracts, Offering Memorandums, Broker Opinions of Value, etc.); and prepare closing statements and memos. Review Argus files and associated financial assumptions and cash flow.
• Organization and Communication – Drive the organization and communication of key work products and information to effectively report to Market Lead and Blackstone asset or market conditions.
• Support Portfolio Work – Provide support to Asset Management Department on the following items : leadership presentations (i.e. board materials), acquisition onboarding, portfolio valuation models and walks to stabilization, coordinate on cash model reviews and lender compliance, seek and learn new technology that makes work more effective and efficient, assume additional responsibilities and perform ad-hoc analyses as needed or as assigned.

Analyst / Senior Analyst will work in close collaboration with senior team members on the Asset Management team on a daily basis, in addition to collaborating with other departments throughout Perform and Blackstone.

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