Senior Analyst - Real Estate Credit and Portfolio Management
Bluecrest Residential
- Newport Beach, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Underwrite new loans and preferred equity investments including sponsor diligence, market analysis, budget and schedule reviews, and base case and downside scenarios DSCR, debt yield, LTV, exit metrics.
- Build and maintain cash flow and waterfall models for A note and B note structures and for preferred equity with full return waterfalls and sensitivity tables.
- Prepare investment memos with clear thesis, risks, mitigants, and covenant packages.
- Lead post closing monitoring for assigned assets monthly operating reviews, DSCR and debt yield tests, construction progress and contingency burn, schedule variance, change order logs, and cost to complete.
- Manage construction draw reviews pay app tie outs, lien waivers, retainage, and reconciliation to budget and schedule.
- Track and enforce covenants and triggers coverage tests, net worth and liquidity tests, completion tests, and reporting deliverables.
- Partner with bank counterparties on whole loan structures intercreditor administration for A note and B note, consents, waivers, and remedies.
- Coordinate third party reports and diligence appraisals, cost reviews, environmental, surveys, PCAs, and insurance compliance.
- Maintain high quality data rooms and portfolio dashboards update monthly KPIs, covenant calendars, and risk ratings.
- Support amendments, extensions, and restructurings including term sheets, scenario analysis, and negotiation materials.
- Contribute to quarterly investor reporting and portfolio reviews concise commentary on performance, risk, and outlook.
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Economics, Real Estate, Business or related field.
- You have two-five years of relevant experience depending from a commercial bank construction lending group, a real estate debt fund, a life company lender, or a credit focused sponsor.
- You have strong financial modeling skills in Excel with comfort building from a blank sheet and auditing existing models.
- You have working knowledge of construction lending and development risk GMP contracts, change orders, payment applications, retainage, lien waivers, completion guarantees, and cost to complete.
- You have familiarity with intercreditor agreements, A note and B note structures, UCC remedies, and preferred equity waterfalls.
- You are able to read and summarize loan documents and covenants and translate into actionable monitoring tools.
- You have excellent interpersonal, written and communication skills.
- You have strong organization skills and follow through with attention to detail and deadlines.