Mergers and Acquisitions Analyst

Responsibilities

• Support CSO and Operations leadership and other departments’ analysts (including FP&A, Operations, and Development ) to share the strategy and vision for assets in their assigned portfolio
• Visit communities and share best practices across the business, with a specific focus on improving operational results

• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with junior members of Property Owners’ Asset Management teams
• Gather data and analyze operating results, building presentations on strategic and operating plans for property owners
• Create analyses of investment opportunities such as redevelopments, unit conversions, and strategic repositioning of assets.
• Help to ensure compliance with management agreements by tracking performance tests and delivering required reporting

• Support the budget and strategic business plan process for each community
• Identify and make recommendations of areas for operational improvement and other opportunities across the portfolio, while supporting cross-functional teams to execute initiatives and evaluating their subsequent performance
• Support organizational management to drive core corporate processes such as Strategic Plans, Rate Setting, Budgets, Forecasts, Actuals review and M&A transactions
• Proactively support priorities and analytics related to community NOI perspective:
  • Analyze and make rate recommendations across the portfolio to drive RevPAR
  • Provide analytical data related to labor costs to help ensure they are managed effectively, reviewing how to optimize labor expenditures and utilization
  • Benchmark other costs and make recommendations to ensure effective management of margins, and identify opportunities for improvement on specific assets
  • Analyze capital spending (renovations and maintenance) to maximize growth and return on investment

• Assist in creating proformas for potential acquisitions of new management contracts or portfolios of assets.
• Conduct market analysis of comparable communities to determine proforma assumptions
• Help to present investment underwriting and M&A models to senior management and potential investors.
• Assist in creating and monitoring acquisition strategies such as up front capex investments, labor model reductions/enhancements, and unit repricing to ensure a successful transition to Sunrise management

• Analyzes and monitors key initiatives across the industry (competitors and investors), and evaluate opportunities for Sunrise, specifically presenting results to leadership
• Utilize common framework on strategy execution for various types of assets, and work with operational leadership to identify assess which strategies will be most effective for individual assets and subsequently monitor performance
• Assist in strategy presentation materials for each asset to align individual communities’ leadership with approved strategy for the community

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills, able to interact and support both financial and operations professions, including internal and external teams
• Ability to analyze budgets, expenditures, competition, trends, etc. for evaluating and completing a wide range of job based transactions
• Ability to simultaneously work on multiple key business workstreams, including M&A transactions, planning activities, pricing, reporting, while reviewing results across the business
• Excellent project management skills in planning, coordinating, prioritizing, and solving complex problems
• Collaborative business partner with Operational, Financial, and Investment leadership across the company, and a team player who can collaborate across the organization
• Advanced analytics skills that identify specific actions to implement into our business
• Well-developed skills in building and updating complex financial models
• Understanding of structured real estate transactions including financing, preferred equity, mezzanine debt, and waterfall returns
• Expert user of excel, with exposure to PowerBI and other planning systems strongly preferred
• Travel across North America to communities is required, and DC area residents are required
• Due to the safety of our residents being our #1 priority, all Sunrise team members are required to be fully vaccinated

Experience/Education

• Undergraduate degree in finance, accounting or real estate required, with post-graduate degree a plus
• Minimum of 3 years of finance, development, or asset management experience, with significant operations exposure
• Knowledge and experience in several of the following areas is strongly preferred:
• Real Estate ownership/management
• Finance and M&A
• Capital Markets
• Senior Housing
• Investor Relations
• Operations Management