Financial Analyst

Make your next move an expert one. At Colliers it's not our success that sets us apart, it's how we achieve it. Our people are passionate, take ownership and always do what’s right for our clients, people and communities. Why Colliers? Our enterprising environment needs your expertise to facilitate Colliers' continued growth as an industry leader. Our nimble, decentralized culture can provide you with a wealth of opportunities to learn about our business and quickly gain experience to accelerate your career.

This position is an onsite role based out of our Indianapolis office

You are great with numbers AND people. As a trusted and reliable member of our team, you bring a positive, customer service approach that benefits our clients and everyone you work with. You love diving deep into research and financial analysis to provide ultimate solutions and proposals to your clients. You're passionate about commercial real estate and looking for an opportunity to expand your knowledge in the industry.

As a Financial Analyst you will be at the heart of our support operations by providing expert financial analysis and other analytical work to support transaction management the capital markets team based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Armed with exceptional analytical and organizational skills and a keen eye for detail, you're a problem solver who’s always looking for ways to improve internal processes to achieve better results.

• Work closely with the Senior Analyst and senior advisors to support investment sales and equity-raising assignments across industrial, office, and retail properties throughout the Midwest.
• Underwrite acquisitions, dispositions, and ground-up development opportunities in ARGUS and Excel, including property-level cash flow projections, development pro formas, discounted cash flow analyses, valuation sensitivities, debt scenarios, and levered and unlevered returns.
• Support equity capital raises and joint venture assignments for ground-up developments, including analysis of development budgets, construction and lease-up assumptions, sources and uses, capital structures, and projected investor returns.
• Analyze rent rolls, leases, historical operating statements, budgets, expense recoveries, capital expenditures, and other property-level information to develop and support underwriting assumptions.
• Apply critical thinking and sound judgment to evaluate incomplete or conflicting information, identify the key issues affecting an assignment, and develop practical solutions without requiring a fully prescribed process.
• Identify missing information, inconsistencies, and potential areas of concern within property financials, leases, development assumptions, and due diligence materials, and determine the most efficient path to resolve them.
• Develop market-supported assumptions through analysis of comparable sales and leases, market fundamentals, tenant credit, replacement costs, development activity, and current capital markets conditions in conjunction with local leasing teams.
• Look beyond model outputs to identify investment strengths, risks, value-creation opportunities, trends, outliers, and logical inconsistencies that may influence valuation, deal structure, and transaction positioning.
• Translate complex financial and property-level information into clear, concise conclusions that senior advisors, clients, and investors can use to make decisions.
• Participate in client meetings, valuation presentations, investor calls, and internal strategy discussions, including presenting and defending underwriting assumptions and financial conclusions.
• Coordinate with clients, property managers, leasing teams, lenders, attorneys, and third-party consultants to collect and…