Overview
Hayat Brown is a national engineering and advisory firm that helps mission-oriented institutions advance objectives related to the management of their infrastructure and real estate assets. Our team brings a lifecycle perspective to the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of commercial and economic development projects. A bench of professional engineers assists clients with technical design, project and construction management – all with safety as our number one priority. A team of results-oriented advisors will guide clients through each stage of the development process, from feasibility and financial structuring to transaction execution. This unique blend of consulting and engineering ensures project success at every stage of its development.
Public entities and private higher education institutions face a unique set of challenges in maximizing the value and useful life of real estate and infrastructure assets. Capital and operating budget limitations often inhibit adequate maintenance, renovation and expansion of needed facilities, eventually hindering core business operations. Debt ceilings, balance sheet limitations, and poor credit ratings may add to the challenge. Hayat Brown’s P3 | Infrastructure | Real Estate group helps institutions overcome these challenges by leveraging private capital and expertise through public-private partnerships (P3) and other performance-based infrastructure (PBI) capital improvement delivery methods. We also help these institutions use P3 and other creative strategies to monetize underutilized real estate and infrastructure assets to fund mission critical activities. Serving public and institutional clients exclusively, our team protects and advances institutional interests through strategy development (project feasibility and portfolio planning), transaction advisory services (valuation, partnership structuring, procurement, and negotiation), and operations support (program management, and asset management and real estate restructuring).
Job Description
This position will provide assistance with a wide range of market and financial analysis, program management support, and procurement management activities in support of state, local, and higher education clients. Additional areas of potential responsibility could include but are not limited to, real estate advisory, business development, and client service. The team brings its extensive project and program management experience to develop creative and valuable solutions to meet client needs and exceed expectations.
The successful candidate will serve in a management consulting capacity working closely with senior client managers to deliver innovative solutions to key public sector and higher education clients. Current engagements include financial management, program/project management, strategy, and operations reviews, data management and analysis, and a full range of real estate and infrastructure transaction advisory services.
Responsibilities
- Building, editing and interpreting financial models
- Detailing assumptions, methodologies and information sources for all analytical tasks
- Providing analytical and project management services related to strategic portfolio and asset planning, procurement management, transaction execution, reinvestment, repositioning and asset monetization
- Understanding, researching and organizing disparate types of data (economic, demographic, real estate market data, etc.) in Excel, performing analyses and documenting findings
- Assisting with the preparation of reports, written analyses, presentations and other client deliverables
- Advising clients on best practices, participating in client meetings and taking detailed notes
- Supporting proposals for new client opportunities
- Supporting the creation of and updates to marketing materials
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree – all majors considered, with preference for real estate, finance, business, or economics,
- At least one year of work experience, with experience in commercial real estate, facilities management, housing, investment or commercial banking, capital markets, government operations, and/or consulting.
- Corporate positions with a financial focus not required, but considered a plus
- Prior internship work experience in commercial real estate, investment or commercial banking, capital markets, government operations, and/or consulting is preferred.
Demonstrate proficiency with most or all of the following:
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
- Intermediate to advanced Excel skills including financial and cash flow modeling
- Strong quantitative skills including knowledge of key financial concepts and metrics
- Excellent research, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Understand key operational performance drivers of an entity
- Strong organizational skills
- Communicate effectively in written and verbal form
- Able to work independently, meet deadlines, and handle multiple tasks concurrently
