Consultant, Advisory

Job Summary

Altus Group is seeking a Real Estate Valuation Consultant for their New York office in the Advisory, Altus Analytics division. This role involves managing the quarterly valuation process of institutional real estate funds, including all aspects of the appraisal management process and real estate investment vehicles.

Responsibilities

• Manage the daily workflow through interaction with clients, subordinates, and supervisors.
• Quarterly valuation process of institutional real estate funds.
• Advanced Excel tasks like VBA programming, data simulation, analytics, and advanced formula usage.
• Data visualization of client deliverables.
• Interpreting client requests and communicating/delegating requests to team.
• Managing projects/engagements to ensure delivery on time and on budget.
• Reviewing all work by junior staff before sending to clients or 3rd parties, coaching and mentoring junior staff.
• Reviewing third party appraisal reports as part of the valuation management process, discussing and resolving any concerns with the client and/or the 3rd party appraiser.
• Ensuring compliance with USPAP and State regulations.
• Managing client communications throughout the valuation management engagement; creating or reviewing portfolio metric presentations.
• Developing relationships with equivalent level individuals in client firms.
• Delivering the highest quality of service and technical excellence.

Qualifications

• A university or college degree from an accredited university in Finance, Statistics, Data/Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field.
• Strong Excel proficiency and experience with VBA (knowledge of R or Python, SQL, Tableau/Power BI, Snowflake is a plus).
• Experience in Commercial Real Estate Valuation, Asset Management, Acquisitions, or Underwriting.
• Expertise in financial analysis and experience with financial modeling for commercial property types (office, industrial, retail and/or multifamily) in ARGUS.
• Strong communication and project management skills, including managing deadlines, creating plans, and evaluating results, and communicating at-risk tasks.
• Proven record of successful management of client deliverables.