Real Estate Valuation Analyst

Description:

If you’re looking to advance your career in data analytics, expertise, and technology for the rapidly growing global CRE market, there’s no better place than Altus Group. At Altus, our work is purposeful. Every day, our employees drive impact, innovate, and shape the global commercial real estate (CRE) and PropTech industry.

Our people-centric culture empowers you to deliver in a high trust, high performance culture, surrounded by an inclusive team that’s collaborating to modernize our industry. We invest in our people with training and growth opportunities designed to propel you further in your career while providing a flexible and progressive workplace that reflects our values and teams.

Altus Group have an exciting new opportunity for a Real Estate Valuation Analyst to join their team based in Vancouver. Reporting into the Vice President, the Real Estate Valuation Analyst will be responsible for the collection and organization of real estate related data, which is to be used for property assessment and consulting services within the different asset classes.

Key Responsibilities

• Market Research - Obtain all required property information related to property assessment and taxation. Conduct research from both internal databases and third-party sources, with respect to market rental data, sales transactions, comparable assessment data & general market info. Ensure that all necessary property data for client properties needed to provide assessment and tax consulting services is obtained and organized in a timely manner

• Data Entry & File Management - Ensure data collected is entered accurately into internal databases in a timely fashion. Organize information for each property assessment accurately in preparation for analysis. Log assessments and tax bills issued into internal databases. Assist in the appeal management, file maintenance and electronic storage of documents.

• Analysis Preparation - Summarize client and market data to allow senior staff to easily analyze for the purpose of complying with statutory filing requirements or analyzing potential savings opportunities. Under direction of senior staff, sets up valuation sheets, reviews leases and rent roll data, sales research and comparisons, comparable assessment and equity analysis etc.

• Report Setup & Preparation - Under direction of senior staff, assist in the set-up and prepare initial reports. External reports include assessment appeal reports, review panel, Appeal Board hearing materials etc. Prepare schedules and related work papers to support the numbers to be submitted to jurisdictions. Assist in creating internal project tracking and client-based progress reports using standard software such as Excel, Access, Altus Tools and other appropriate software

Key Qualifications:

• Ideally a Bachelor’s degree in Real Estate, Business or Math preferred

• Previous experience as an Analyst

• General proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Outlook and Adobe Acrobat required

• Intermediate Excel skills

• Quantitative and qualitative analysis skills

• Attention to detail in order to complete data entry exercises accurately

• Written communication skills