About Clay Cove Capital:
Clay Cove Capital is a real estate focused private equity firm that specializes in dual structure OpCo-PropCo platforms in the lower middle-market. We invest in real estate dependent growth businesses that anticipate and cater to the changing ways in which people live, work, play, and connect.
Drawing on our team’s decades of real estate investing and participation in transactions totaling over $50 billion, we source differentiated opportunities across the U.S. As a member of the team, you would play an important role in the entrepreneurial process of scaling a real estate private equity firm.
Values:
- Forge Your Path: We believe in the power of individual initiative. Your growth and our firm’s success are intertwined. Take risks, seize opportunities, and don’t wait for permission to lead.
- Stay Humble: True strength lies in openness to new ideas and respect for different viewpoints. Listen intently, learn constantly, and remember that mutual respect drives our collective success.
- Be An Owner: Approach every challenge, big or small with the dedication of an owner. Take pride in your work, own your decisions, and never settle for “good enough.” Accountability is everything.
- Embrace Change: Question assumptions, challenge the status quo, and continuously expand your knowledge. Your relentless pursuit of what’s next keeps us ahead in a fast-changing world.
- Customer First: Our investors and operating partners are our customers. Anticipate their needs, align our interests, and consistently deliver outsize value. Their success defines our own.
Job Description: Investment Analyst
Primary Responsibilities:
- Work with Senior Associates and Principals to build and maintain complex financial models for both real estate and operating company investments incorporating the following concepts and structures:
- Cap rates
- Debt amortization schedules
- Mortgage financing structures
- Lease analysis
- Enterprise valuation analysis
- Cash flow projections
- Working capital analysis
- Scenario modeling
- Risk-return profiles
- Perform in-depth market research, including analyzing comparable transactions, industry trends, geographic markets, and competitive landscapes to identify investment opportunities and risks.
- Support investment due diligence (both corporate and real estate), including reviewing financial statements, property performance metrics, and risk factors.
- Support preparation of investment presentations, pitch decks, memos and supporting materials for internal committees, investors, and partners.
- Support capital raising efforts with completion of due diligence questionnaires and public facing profiles about the firm and other requests from limited partners
Desired Experience and Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree from a top-tier undergraduate program with a major in business, finance, economics or related.
- Prior experience in investment banking, commercial real estate, management consulting, private equity, or a financial institution.
- Proficiency in financial modeling, valuation techniques, and investment analysis.
- A proactive mindset with the ability to think critically, solve problems, and generate insights. Passion for working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with an entrepreneurial approach to investment opportunities.
- Strong writing and communication skills
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite – Excel, PowerPoint, Word
- Preference for experience with Real Estate, Investor and Corporate Databases – CoStar, Green Street, Preqin, CapIQ etc.
Additional Details:
- The position is expected to begin in April/May 2025 for a summer position with the potential for a full-time role for recent graduates.
- Preference for in-office work with flexibility for a hybrid role as needed.
- This is a paid position, with compensation commensurate with the candidate’s experience and job level.
