Financial Analyst

About the role

Founded in 1971, Marcus & Millichap (NYSE: MMI) is a premier commercial real estate brokerage firm specializing in investment sales, financing, research, and advisory services. With a national platform spanning 80+ offices across the U.S. and Canada, the firm completed over 8,800 transactions in 2025, with $50.8 billion in sales volume. Our mission is to help our clients create and preserve wealth through exceptional real estate investment expertise and service. This is an opportunity to join an award-winning senior investment sales team with significant opportunities for growth within one of the nation’s largest commercial real estate investment brokerages.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead financial underwriting and investment analysis across all properties within the team’s deal pipeline, including cash flow modeling, IRR analysis, cap rate analysis, comparable sales analysis, owner-user analysis, land residual analysis, and sensitivity analysis.
• Review and analyze property financial statements, leases, and supporting documentation to determine appropriate underwriting assumptions, modeling approach, scope of analysis, and timing of financial deliverables.
• Build and maintain sophisticated financial models for single and multi-tenant retail, office, mixed-use, and redevelopment opportunities.
• Analyze comparable sales, lease data, market trends, and pricing dynamics across Southern California to support valuation and underwriting assumptions.
• Organize and present analytical findings, draw objective conclusions, and recommend appropriate modeling parameters and assumptions.
• Prepare investment memorandums, marketing copy, financial analyses, and investor presentation materials.
• Maintain underwriting consistency and quality control across all financial deliverables.

Qualifications

• 3–7+ years of experience in commercial real estate financial analysis
• Advanced proficiency in Excel financial modeling, Argus, and CoStar
• Strong understanding of real estate valuation metrics, including IRR, NPV, cap rates, and DSCR
• Experience analyzing retail, office, mixed-use, and land development opportunities
• Ability to interpret property financial statements, leases, and market data to support investment underwriting and valuation analysis
• Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple assignments and deadlines simultaneously
• Strong communication, writing, and presentation skills
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and complete projects on time with accuracy
• Strong understanding of zoning regulations and municipal ordinances to support financial modeling for development sites and detailed land residual analysis
• Self-motivated, team-oriented and capable of handling several tasks simultaneously