Associate Director, CPACE Underwriting Transaction Management

Key Responsibilities And Duties

• Preparing term sheets for early-stage deals and assisting with presentation materials when needed.
• Managing deal structuring negotiations, leading borrowers and senior lenders through how PACE can be a value-add in development project capital stacks.
• Leveraging third-party market research, such as CoStar, to support underwriting assumptions.
• Identifying transaction risks and tracking exceptions to Nuveen Green Capital’s underwriting criteria.
• Drafting and presenting credit memos to obtain credit approval, interfacing with Nuveen Green Capital’s credit team to troubleshoot underwriting concerns.
• Completing loan files accurately and thoroughly.

Transaction Management

• Leading a diverse pipeline of C-PACE projects of various complexity, triaging and prioritizing the most impactful next steps for the overall pipeline.
• Communicating internally with originations, credit, legal, and asset management teams and externally with clients and partners to keep the deal team on track for key milestones and closing.
• Working with mortgage holders (where applicable) to gain consent for C-PACE financing.
• Supporting relationships with developers, brokers, mortgage lenders and other industry stakeholders.
• Preparing for client meetings, including development of background material and presentations.
• Increasing market awareness of Nuveen Green Capital.
• Going above and beyond to ensure a positive customer experience, creatively solving challenging problems, and enthusiastically supporting Nuveen Green Capital’s mission to be the Lender of Choice for our clients and partners.

Educational Requirements

University (Degree) Preferred
Work Experience 3+ Years Required; 5+ Years Preferred
Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work
Career Level 7IC Required
Qualifications: Minimum of 3+ Years of commercial real estate construction underwriting experience
Preferred Qualifications: 5+ Years of commercial real estate construction underwriting experience
Masters/MBA related to CRE
Demonstrated interest in sustainability and/or clean energy deployment
Experience with financial structuring of commercial real estate construction/development projects