Investments and Asset Management Associate

The Amherst Group's companies are comprised of leading real estate investment and advisory firms with a mission to transform the way real estate is owned, financed and managed.

Amherst leverages its proprietary data, analytics, technology, and decades of experience to seek solutions for a fragmented, slow-to-evolve real estate ecosystem and to materially improve the experience for residents, buyers, sellers, communities, and investors.

Today Amherst has over 1000 employees and $14.1 billion in assets under management.

Over the past decade, Amherst has scaled its platform to become one of the largest operators of single-family assets and has acquired, renovated, and leased more than 46,000 homes across 32 markets in the U.

S. The firm delivers customized, stabilized cash-flowing portfolios of assets to its investors, wrapped in all the ongoing services required to manage, own, and finance the asset including property management, portfolio management, and a full capital markets team.

In addition to its single-family rental platform, Amherst’s debt business pursues two distinct credit strategies in mortgage-backed securities and commercial real estate lending.

Over its 25-year history, Amherst has developed a deep bench of research and technology talent, and leverages data and analytics at every stage in the asset lifecycle to improve operations and preserve long-term value for our investors and the more than 188,000 residents the firm has served.

Amherst is revolutionizing the way U.S. real estate is priced, managed and financed in order to unlock opportunities for all market participants.

Driven by data, analytics, and technology, Amherst has a 20-year history of anticipating where the next risks and opportunities are likely to emerge and designing actionable strategies for investors to capitalize on opportunities across residential real estate, commercial real estate and public securities.

Amherst, along with its affiliates and subsidiaries, has more than 900 employees, $5 billion under management and approximately $15 billion under advisement and oversight.

www.amherst.com. The Amherst Residential platform provides a comprehensive suite of services to facilitate the ownership of single-family rental properties, including property management services, asset-level financing, and asset management services.

With a deep understanding of and proprietary analytics on the single-family home and mortgage markets, Amherst's platform combines a unique combination of national scale with local market knowledge and execution.

The Acquisitions and Asset Management team oversees the investment strategy and asset management for Amherst’s $15bn real estate portfolio and is looking for an Associate who will work in a fast-paced environment, quantitatively driven environment, and is comfortable managing and streamlining various high impact projects and decisions across the portfolio.

They will be working on the buy-side acquisitions platform in the single-family residential real estate sector and be involved in business development, deal structuring and evaluation, investment thesis creation, and strategic initiatives.

Job Responsibilities :

• Centrally participate in all aspects of deal formation including opportunity screening, financial modeling, deal structuring and deal execution
• Assist in creation of new investment thesis through supporting proprietary quantitative models to drive our deployment of capital strategy
• Support weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reporting activities for internal stakeholders and external capital partners
• Help source, evaluate, and prepare summary purchase models for large portfolio acquisitions
• Support portfolio optimization strategies through detailed financial modeling to determine asset best execution and portfolio level return decisions
• Coordinate work product across various projects with legal, tax, accounting, research, and regulatory parties
• Collaborate and drive strategic initiatives across Amherst’s operating partners to improve margins and returns

Desired Skills and Experience :

• Bachelor’s degree required, MBA or Master’s in Data Science nice to have, CFA welcome
• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience with real estate, private equity, or investment banking required
• Strong academic background with focus in finance, real estate, accounting, or math preferred
• Advanced skills at complex business modeling in Excel; strong Microsoft Office skills PowerPoint; Basic knowledge of SQL, Tableau
• Top-ranked performer with a track record of success (academic, professional)
• Strong verbal and written skills to communicate effectively with internal and external professionals
• Candidate should be extremely detail-oriented and organized with a proven ability to work well in a high-intensity environment to complete tasks quickly and effectively
• Ability to prioritize multiple deadlines while delivering a high quality product under tight time constraints
• Desire to work on a highly collaborative, fast paced team
• Knowledge of Python and R preferred

What we offer :

Amherst is a privately held corporation located in Austin, TX with offices in Downtown Austin and East Austin.

• A competitive compensation package, annual bonus, 401k match
• Flexible PTO, 8 paid holidays
• Employer-paid benefits (medical, dental, vision, health savings account)
• Professional career development and reimbursement
• On-premise fitness center, locker rooms
• Daily catered lunches, fully stocked kitchen with snacks / drinks
• Relaxed casual environment and weekly / quarterly office events!

Amherst is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or veteran status, and encourage all applicants to apply.

Our full-time employee benefits include :

A competitive compensation package, annual bonus, 401k match

Flexible PTO including 7 paid holidays, 1 floating holiday, and 1 volunteer day

Employer-paid benefits (medical, dental, vision, health savings account)

Professional career development and reimbursement

Up to 16 weeks paid maternity leave; up to 4 weeks of paid parental leave

Backup childcare offered through Bright Horizons

Amherst is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or veteran status, and encourage all applicants to apply.