Associate, Real Estate Investment Banking

We are looking for an Associate to join our Real Estate Investment Banking team within our Capital Markets EMEA business line.
What can you expect from JLL Capital Markets?
Sitting within the wider International Capital Markets team at JLL, the Real Estate Investment Banking team focuses on advising clients on: M&A transactions, Recapitalisations, JVs, and Strategic Reviews.

With very flat hierarchies and outstanding, inclusive team culture you should expect to take project and workstream responsibility early on and represent JLL Capital Markets as a fully integrated team member. Being involved in a diverse range of different projects, you will have the opportunity to gain invaluable, first-hand experience of working with top executives in the sector (CEOs, CFOs etc.) and develop a wide network of contacts.

Working across all sectors and geographies, you will have the opportunity to gain invaluable experience in developing your knowledge and understanding of global capital markets, building relationships with key stakeholders across the JLL business globally and forming a wide network of contacts across the full spectrum of international investors.

You'll gain a thorough grounding in all aspects of Capital Markets and will benefit from some of the best technical, professional and client-skills training around.

What does the role entail?

• Qualitative and quantitative analysis of real estate and corporate business opportunities for our client base including complex financial modelling, transaction structure analyses and positioning including support of Directors in presenting business ideas to our client.
• Project execution across a wide range of products as a fully client-facing team member, where you will be expected to lead and manage project workstreams
• Development of proprietary sector know-how, closely following developments in the real estate sector, thereby developing a fundamental understanding of the sector
• Team-up with other JLL teams to ensure best-in-class service to our clients
• Possible travel across Europe to join client and investor meetings, both in relation to business origination and project execution
• Support the EMEA Investment Banking business to provide EMEA market analysis, JLL performance statistics, underbidder analysis and presentations to include maintaining a team capability deck. Responsible for understanding how to work with JLL's proprietary databases and research resources, including Global Capital Flows (GCF) data
• Support senior managers by providing client intelligence, contribute to the development of our Client Relationship Management initiative, to include creating investor profiles in our CRM (Salesforce) to maintain the team's investor lists up-to-date (to include meeting notes, press, conferences)

• General transactional support including:

• Production of market materials to support sale opportunities including cashflows, IM writing / checking / design

• Production of client materials to support buyside opportunities including cashflows, buyside report and other analysis

• Tracking of investor / marketing lists and production of client reports

• Maintain deal case study library with market transactions using press and research outputs; produce globally comparable real estate metrics and sources of data

• Assist team with arranging meetings and client market tour itineraries for clients

What are we looking for?

• Someone with proven experience of working within and investment Banking or Corporate finance environment
• "Big picture" thinking and a strong interest in global business cultures
• Commercial awareness, sound judgement and a strategic mind. Interest in commercial property but prior experience not essential
• Enthusiasm, intellectual curiosity and eagerness to learn from top professionals in the sector
• Pro-activeness; self-motivation and goal orientation
• Strong team player able to work effectively in a team environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, able to prepare client presentations in a clear and compelling manner
• Strong project management skills
• Strong work ethic
• Strong attention to detail and always checks work to ensure high levels of accuracy
• Excellent level of MS Office applications
• Excellent command of electronic media and systems (Salesforce, Sharepoint)
• European languages are a benefit but not a requirement