Cushman & Wakefield - Associate - FI Securitized Products Origination

Job Title : FI Securitized Products Origination

Job Grade: Associate

Reports To (line manager's job title only) : VP/Director

Overall Job Purpose

- Securitized Products Origination: The primary responsibility will be to support the Underwriting and Origination team in evaluation new and existing loans. Manage work-flow, deliverables and leading a team of 2-4 analysts.

- Preparing Asset Summary Reports for US Commercial Real Estate.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Candidate will be required to:

- Review Offering Memo/Credit Memo prepared by Seller/Servicer and/or Borrowers to gain an understanding of the real estate and the requested financing.

- Evaluate and compile property level income statements, rent roll, reimbursements, occupancy statics, sales and occupancy cost information and other information into excel-based models.

- Compile market research to determine and verify a project's economics and assumptions in the model. Market research will include third party sources (such as Reis, RCA and others) as well as public information available on the internet.

- Review and evaluate third party reports including real estate appraisals environmental reports, property condition reports, and zoning analysis etc.

- Review Borrower level analysis and ability to interpret any derogatory issues. Evaluating the NW, Liquidity and REO schedule of the Borrower(s).

- Review tenant leases and related documentation and prepare an abstract of key terms. Evaluate historical and projected capital expenditure budgets.

- Collect and organize due diligence and credit files in an established documentation system.

- Prepare short memo summarizing key terms of the transaction, providing a short description of the property and its location, market, and tenancy. The memo will also include short descriptions of terms in the property and market characteristics and prepare short memo describing strengths and weaknesses of the transaction.

Person Specification (Personal attributes essential to performing role: e.g. skills, competencies, expertise, knowledge, and experience. Note: experience not to be time-bound)

- Engineering/MBA Graduate required.

- Minimum 1 year experience in team handling, however experience candidates with excellent US CRE background and good leadership skills may be considered.

- 2-4 years of US real estate investment experience will be preferred. Candidate should have experience in performing reviews of US Commercial Real Estate Underwriting models and analysis.

- Excellent communication skills (oral/written) as the candidate would have to work with the US team. They would have to speak to the US team on a regular basis to manage the current deliveries and work flow.

- Strong co-ordination skills to manage multiple tasks.

- Work proactively to review and improve the operational support model.

- Eye for Detail - Need to make sure all corporate actions are incorporated. Any missing prices are update.

- Analytical Skills - Should possess strong analytical skills and have a solution based approach.

- Aptitude for self learning - Should be able to demonstrate a self starting attitude.

- Proactive in nature. Should be able to take decisions and support those.