DescriptionThis role will support the Debt, Equity, and Structured Finance Team in Newmark’s Los Angeles office in Century City. The ideal candidate will be a high performing individual that has prior commercial real estate experience and brings a strong background in automation and artificial intelligence integration.
Candidates should be capable of integrating AI-driven tools and automation strategies to enhance analytical capabilities, improve workflow efficiency, and support data-driven decision making, while providing financial analyses, analytical decision support services, and technical expertise for a broad array of financial and operational projects and initiatives.
ResponsibilitiesESSENTIAL DUTIES:
Capital Markets Execution
Support the placement of senior, bridge, construction, mezzanine, and permanent debt as well as preferred and joint-venture equity.
Prepare institutional-quality loan request packages, investment summaries, and lender/equity investor outreach materials.
Coordinate term sheet comparisons, structure optimization, and capital stack recommendations.
Manage transaction workstreams through closing, including diligence checklists, third-party reports, data rooms, and closing deliverables.
Underwriting & Financial Modeling
Build and maintain sophisticated cash flow, debt sizing, and equity waterfall models across multifamily, industrial, office, retail, and hospitality assets.
Underwrite and size loans using DSCR, debt yield, LTV/LTC, IO/amortization profiles, covenants, and exit tests; perform scenario/sensitivity and break-even analyses.
Synthesize rent rolls, operating statements, Argus exports, leases, and market data into defensible underwriting assumptions.
Market Intelligence & Business Development
Track capital markets activity, lender and equity sentiment, and pricing trends; maintain up-to-date term databases.
Support pitch development, proposals, and client strategy sessions with data-driven insights and comparable financing analyses.
Collaborate with research, valuation, and brokerage teams to align assumptions and messaging.