Analyst - Hotels - Consultancy

Analyst - Hotels - Consultancy - London RAF 0633

If this role sounds like you and something you want to be a part of, please apply now and send us your CV.

We’re the leading specialist advisor for buying and selling businesses in our sectors - hotels, pubs, restaurants, childcare, healthcare, convenience retail, leisure and medical.

We employ the largest team of sector specialists in the UK and the largest group of hotel specialists in Europe, providing professional brokerage and advisory services from offices in major cities across Britain and Europe. And because we’ve been doing this for over 90 years, we know our sectors and local markets inside out. We work closely with our clients to guide and conclude transactions of any size, covering hotels, restaurants and pubs, leisure, forecourts and convenience retail businesses, social care and elderly care, childcare & education facilities, dental practices and pharmacies.

Christie & Co has developed a market leading consultancy proposition providing a wide range of services to a very diverse client base including leading owners, operators, investors, lenders and developers. This role forms an integral part of the Christie & Co Hotels Team (Brokerage, Consultancy and Valuations) in the UK and across Europe. It will support both the Consultancy team and Hotels team leadership with comprehensive research, database maintenance, elevation of analytical tools, direct consultancy projects’ support as well as adjacent commercial activity including presentations, market publications, commercial proposals and client presentations.

This role demands tenacity, agile self-management together with intense internal and external collaboration, all powered by a passion for the industry as well as a drive to learn and contribute to the team’s success in meeting (and exceeding) our clients’ requirements. This role is a fantastic learning platform to consolidate the candidate’s analytical skills and expand his/her professional vision of the hotel investment sector.

• Tackle with enthusiasm and discipline thorough market reviews in support of projects, focused industry publications and client presentations, occasionally supporting the production of commercial pitches
• Demonstrate individual excellence in undertaking projects (or parts of) independently and active teamwork in the context of larger and/or cross-office assignments (ex: portfolio)
• Critically and timely contribute to the preparation of feasibility studies, operational reviews, commercial due diligence and development advice or any other bespoke services
• Demonstrate individual excellence in undertaking projects (or parts of) independently and active teamwork in the context of larger and/or cross-office assignments (ex: portfolio)
• Regularly and proactively monitor the hospitality market and competition in the UK and wider Europe to maintain in-depth and timely market knowledge. Active maintenance and update of databases, critical resources and internal newsletter, gathering and organising hotel transactions, financial and operating statements
• Work in partnership with the European offices to roll out critical initiatives, new tools, coordinate research efforts and databases ensuring a smooth and productive collaboration of the wider hotel team
• Support to management in addressing ad-hoc client requests from complementary research, short presentations or commercial proposals with a sense of urgency and responsiveness
• Initiate and creatively support the development of new financial models, study models, bespoke side-analyses, etc.
• With supervision of functional leader or senior peers, ensure a responsive communication to customer requests and timely follow-up on project leads
• Where relevant pro-actively engage with our brokerage or valuation team to leverage their transactional market knowledge, valuation guidance to support our consultancy deliverables and conclusions
• Pro-actively develop and maintain productive relationships with the Christie & Co consultancy teams across Europe, as well as other Hotels teams and the wider Christie & Co…