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Outpost · 1 day ago

Investment Associate, Real Estate

Austin, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

3+ years exp

Outpost is a vertically integrated real estate, operations, and technology company focused on reinventing supply chain infrastructure in America. The Investment Associate will support the real estate investment team by sourcing, underwriting, conducting due diligence, and executing transactions across the company's portfolios.

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Comp. & Benefits

Responsibilities

Support the real estate team in all sourcing, underwriting, due diligence, and investor communications activities

Perform extensive financial modeling analysis and valuation work on potential acquisitions

Interface across Outpost’s internal and external functional areas, including executive leadership, external partners, attorneys, brokers, lenders, and other similar parties

Prepare investment memos and ancillary reports for presentation to senior management and outside investors

Generate, aggregate and synthesize critical market information from third-party reports and first-party research as part of ongoing asset management and growth initiatives

Be relied upon to complete timely and accurate analysis regarding critical real estate documents including contracts, financial statements, leases, loans, and other similar transaction documents

Qualification

Real EstateFinancial ModelingDue DiligenceExcelAnalytical SkillsMarket ResearchInvestment MemosArgusCommunication SkillsOrganizational SkillsProblem-Solving Skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Real Estate, Finance, Economics or related field

3-5 + years of real estate acquisitions experience

Strong financial modeling skills (Excel required; Argus beneficial)

Excellent research, analytical, and problem-solving skills

Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities

Highly organized, fast-moving, and detail-oriented

Ability to manage multiple workstreams in a dynamic, high-velocity environment

Extreme career dedication

Preferred

Full-cycle industrial outdoor storage or traditional industrial acquisition experience. This includes underwriting, due diligence, entitlements, contract negotiation, title analysis, third-party report management, consultant oversight, and construction financing

Experience purchasing off market or listed properties. This includes utilizing the skills above in addition to broker relationship development/management, lease analysis, financial due diligence, and permanent financing

Preparing investment memos, offering memoranda, or similar deal-specific analytical materials

Building financial models in Excel for developments, individual property acquisitions, or multi-property portfolios. This includes modeling all key valuation assumptions, debt assumptions and partnership waterfalls. The capability to build financial models from scratch is helpful, but reliably auditing and manipulating existing models to meet specific deal demands is equally important

Rental and sales comparable analysis. Justifying likely market rents, growth rates, and exit cap rates based on previous and forthcoming activity in the marketplace

Geographic market research and analysis. Identifying positive and negative demand trends that will impact market conditions at the property, MSA, and macroeconomic levels

Pitching investment opportunities to third-party investors or internal investment committees, including all related memo preparation

Experience working in entrepreneurial or institutional real estate firms