Asset Management Associate

CYM Living: Where caring meets innovation. We are a national real estate firm with corporate headquarters in Chicago’s West Loop and just outside of New York City. Our mission is to provide our residents with an exceptional living experience, nurture a culture of community, and empower growth from within. As a vertically integrated firm, we lead with operations but take a hands-on approach to real estate investment and property management, accomplishing our mission by incorporating data and technology with hyperlocal customer service to all units.

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CYM Living is currently looking for a full-time Asset Management Associate with experience in multi-family, garden-style apartment community management to add to our team, reporting directly to the Asset Management Manager. Successful candidates will be self-driven, highly motivated, team players, and be able to work effectively in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment. The ideal candidate will bring 2-4 years of multi-family real estate experience in either an Asset Management or Financial Analyst role, with technical experience using data analysis and financial modeling a big plus. The ideal candidate will also have 1-2 years of management experience, although it is not a requirement. The candidate will use their analysis skills and real world real estate experience to help leaders answer pressing business questions. This role works to understand every aspect of CYM’s financial performance by leveraging financial and operational data to gain insights on performance at every level – ranging from individual assets to the larger portfolio. The successful candidate will have the ability to analyze and draw conclusions from complex data sets, providing recommendations and developing solutions with our operations and field leaders, who will implement changes to drive results. This role will be highly cross-functional, working with every team in the company, and will require a natural leader inclined to ask questions, challenge the status quo and delve deeply into operational processes to solve problems and implement solutions. Highly effective and confident interpersonal and communication skills with a diverse audience, including senior executives, will be a critical success factor in this role.

Responsibilities:

• Develop technical skills to become an expert in business software (Excel, SQL, Business Intelligence Platforms)
• Manage a dedicated Asset Management Analyst
• Create, prepare, edit, and refine daily, weekly, monthly analytics to drive decision making
• Use a data-backed approach to answer questions and spot trends
• Run ad hoc projects/analysis to create strategic recommendations based on data analysis
• Identify variances from benchmarks and the drivers of those variances
• Create ad-hoc analyses to help managers/executives make more informed decisions
• Prepare reports for management defining problem, evaluation, and possible solution
• Constantly identify areas of improvement in the process and suggest/implement improvements
• Ability to diagnose, research, and resolve technical issues independently or as a part of a team
• Prepare and utilize budgets to ensure adherence to financial and operational plan

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in finance/economics, real estate, accounting, entrepreneurship, or related major required
• Minimum 3.5 GPA
• 2-4 years of multi-family real estate experience, either as an Asset Manager or Financial Analyst
• 1-2 years of management experience including delivering annual performance reviews a big plus
• Microsoft Office suite
• Experience with Yardi, SQL, business intelligence tools (Tableau, Looker, PowerBI, etc.) a huge plus
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Must be able to communicate effectively to all departments and levels of the organization
• Must have the ability and willingness to work both independently and cooperatively in a team environment
• Strong desire to learn and take on responsibility quickly

Benefits

• Competitive base salary plus bonus, will depend on experience and qualifications.
• 401(k) with generous company match.
• 15 paid vacation days plus 5 days of paid sick time annually (vacation increases to 20 days at 2 years of tenure).
• Exciting company events and significant exposure to senior leadership.