Job Description

Amherst Overview: Amherst is a vertically integrated real estate investment, development, and operating platform, offering solutions across the U.S. real estate capital stack, including single-family residential (SFR), mortgage-backed securities (MBS), and commercial real estate (CRE). Amherst is headquartered in Austin, TX and New York, NY, in the United States, with regional global offices located in India and Costa Rica. Underpinned by proprietary technology, battle-tested data and mortgage model, and a deep understanding of U.S. real estate markets, Amherst\'s vertically integrated platform seeks to provide investors a more efficient model to price, finance, and manage real estate with turnkey execution capabilities across the firm\'s debt and equity strategies in the public and private residential, commercial, and mortgage-backed securities markets. Our Single-Family Residential strategy has quickly scaled over the last 10 years to own and operate 40,000+ homes in 30+ markets across 20 states while building a vertically integrated real estate investment and operating platform that manages approximately $18bn in assets. Across the SFR strategy, Amherst acquires, builds, renovates, leases, finances, manages, and disposes of homes on its own account and for its investors. Outside of the SFR strategy, Amherst is engaged in various strategic initiatives and venture businesses, including commercial real estate debt and equity (all things non-SFR) and mortgage-backed securities advisory. For Further information about The Amherst Group, kindly visit https://www.amherst.com/ Department / Role Overview: Our team sits at the center of the action, serving as leaders and collaborators with every function that serves the lifecycle of our investment products. We seek a highly motivated individual to play a key role in strategic modeling and capital planning . We communicate with leading institutional investors and senior management daily and must articulate our strategy and performance well. We are subject matter experts in many areas of the firm, including venture strategy, debt optimization, cash management, financial reporting and performance, and valuation. Responsibilities: Our team leads all strategic financial modeling across Amherst, capital raising, investor relationships and diligence responses, and transaction execution and documentation Create and maintain financial models and underwriting, including cash flow projections, fund-level waterfalls and IRR calculations, DCF and NPV valuations, sum-of-the parts analyses Prepare presentations and marketing materials, including pitches, responses to diligence requests, and various modeling exercise outputs for investors, senior executives, and Board of Directors Collaborate with the team and groups across the organization to generate new ideas, advance existing initiatives, and assist with special projects on an as-needed basis Requirements: Education: Bachelor\'s degree and MBA / CA / CFA with financial markets understanding a plus. Experience (4-6 years): prior experience in banking, financial Services and / or real estate firm preferred. Highly analytical mindset. Technical: Intermediate-advanced skills in MS Office Excel and PowerPoint. System: Prior experience in using Yardi, Tableau, and SQL preferred. Time Management: Proven ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment. Must react quickly to requests with a sense of urgency. Working Shift / Arrangement: U.S. shift (1:30 PM - 10:30 PM - IST), flexible - hybrid working model Amherst\'s Core Values: Culture & Conduct: Positive attitude with high integrity. Agile in adapting to a dynamic environment with emerging datapoints. Client-Centricity & Business Acumen: Strong Team player, multiple internal stakeholder management. Communication & Connectivity: strong written and verbal communication skills with clients and management. Ability to communicate across teams and disciplines within Amherst to drive progress. Execution & Delivery: self-starter, proactive, motivated, driven personality, excellent organizational and time management skills. Ability to understand conceptually process goals and operate independently when creating execution framework and model with limited real-time input / guidance

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