SREIT –Valuation Analyst/Associate
Location: New York, NY
Starwood Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. is a perpetual-life, monthly NAV REIT that directly invests in high quality, stabilized, income-producing real estate. SREIT is managed by Starwood REIT Advisors L.L.C., a subsidiary of Starwood Capital Group.
The Valuation Analyst/Associate will play a key role in supporting SREIT’s valuation and performance reporting processes. This opportunity offers significant exposure to many SCG team members including Portfolio Management, Asset Management, Capital Markets, Acquisitions, Finance and Investor Relations.
Responsibilities include:
- Support monthly valuation process for SREIT, which includes global investments across multiple sectors, primarily multifamily and industrial
- Prepare and maintain internal valuation models (Excel, Argus, Anaplan), utilizing input from Asset Management, reviewing and analyzing property financials, and conducting independent market research
- Assist in the quarterly review of third-party real estate appraisals, including coordination of supporting documentation, analyzing appraisal assumptions and discounted cash flows, and preparing summaries of results
- Communicate directly with third-party appraisers and SREIT’s independent valuation advisor as part of the quarter-end appraisal process
- Produce asset and fund level reporting for senior management, investors and board of directors on a monthly and quarterly basis
- Aid in valuation automation and AI projects intended to enhance efficiencies in the group’s reporting processes, procedures and analytics
- Support SREIT’s Finance and Investor Relations teams on an ad hoc basis for due diligence and/or investor requests
- Perform ad hoc sensitivities and analyses to assess impacts to portfolio valuations or returns based on changes to property and/or portfolio assumptions
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in real estate, finance, business or related area with strong GPA
- 2–5 years of relevant real estate valuation background preferred. Multifamily experience is a plus. Experience with open-ended real estate fund finance, valuations and performance reporting
- Familiarity with financial modeling, including discounted cash flow analyses
- Proficient in Argus, Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Experience with AI tools a plus
- Experience in managing, updating, analyzing and presenting large quantities of data
- Excellent communication skills (both written and oral)
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills and detail-oriented
- Highly organized and ability to multitask with many priorities
- Authorization to work in the United States
