Analyst, Strategy

The Amherst Group's companies are comprised of leading real estate investment and advisory firms with a mission to transform the way real estate is owned, financed and managed. Amherst leverages its proprietary data, analytics, technology, and decades of experience to seek solutions for a fragmented, slow-to-evolve real estate ecosystem and to materially improve the experience for residents, buyers, sellers, communities, and investors. Today Amherst has over 1000 employees and $14.1 billion in assets under management.

Over the past decade, Amherst has scaled its platform to become one of the largest operators of single-family assets and has acquired, renovated, and leased more than 46,000 homes across 32 markets in the U.S. The firm delivers customized, stabilized cash-flowing portfolios of assets to its investors, wrapped in all the ongoing services required to manage, own, and finance the asset including property management, portfolio management, and a full capital markets team. In addition to its single-family rental platform, Amherst’s debt business pursues two distinct credit strategies in mortgage-backed securities and commercial real estate lending. Over its 25-year history, Amherst has developed a deep bench of research and technology talent, and leverages data and analytics at every stage in the asset lifecycle to improve operations and preserve long-term value for our investors and the more than 188,000 residents the firm has served.

The analyst, Business Strategy role in the Operate group at Amherst represents a unique opportunity to be exposed to and operate at the highest levels of a leading digital real estate company that’s already at scale, profitable, and growing quickly. The business has five distinct verticals – our Originate business, our Operate business, our Merchant Bank, our Investment Management business, and our Incubator. This role will support the Operate business and go deep into the heart of our property management’s operations. The position will be based in Austin.

Responsibilities

• Support cross-functional projects that require oversight and will drive future business operations.

• Create aesthetic, simple, and easily understood data visualizations using Tableau or other tools for internal and external customers.

• Gather requirements, understand desired outcomes, update release notes and suggest novel ways to further derive value from data

• Design and develop high-quality visualizations that effectively track KPIs/metrics and analyze evolving business initiatives

• Consolidate, synthesize, and communicate regular reporting on the projects that give insights and support to the leadership team.

• Conduct and lead small meetings with members in with various groups across the organization

• Analyze data and identify trends and key findings in both qualitative and quantitative data sets from various systems

• Support ad-hoc analyses and projects, including automation of reporting from various internal software platforms, creation and/or maintenance of financial and operational reporting dashboards, and data visualizations.

Candidates will need to demonstrate essential capabilities:

• Executional excellence: You have the organizational skills, meticulous attention to detail, high sense of responsibility, and general skillset to take on a wide range of high-priority tasks in support of the Head of Real Estate Management’s projects. You are dependable and always deliver quality work.

• Executive-level communication and presentation skills: Your written (including presentation decks) and verbal communication are compelling and precise. You can quickly take complex concepts and communicate them briefly, simply, and persuasively. You’ve demonstrated the ability to communicate at executive levels of large companies or organizations.

• Structured problem solving: Strategic thinking, in particular the ability to break complex problems down into component parts. The ability to lead on and enjoy both strategic and tactical work is key.

• Analytical capability: You’re confident creating, scrutinizing, and improving everything from revenue models to KPI dashboards. You’ve repeatedly done the work to make sure complex business reporting data is accurate, but you’re also able to cut out the noise by identifying the most salient data points to inform decision-making.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree required. Advanced degree (MBA, MS, etc.) a plus, but not required. Preferred fields of study include Finance, Economics/Econometrics, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, and Engineering

• 0-3 years of working experience in finance or asset management or real estate.

• Advanced skills at complex business modeling in Excel; strong Microsoft Office skills in PowerPoint; Basic knowledge of SQL, and Tableau; knowledge of Python and r a plus

• Highly analytical and process-oriented; ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, good attention to detail.

• Flexible and adaptable with excellent organization, time management, and prioritization skills; follow through with a sense of urgency.

• Highly self-motivated and results-focused, executes efficiently and effectively.

​Amherst is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or veteran status, and encourage all applicants to apply.