Analyst (Hotels)

THE COMPANY

CBRE is the world’s leading commercial real estate services firm. The company serves real estate owners, investors and occupiers through more than 300 offices worldwide. The company’s core services include property sales, leasing and management; corporate services; facilities and project management; investment management; capital markets; appraisal and valuation; research; and consulting. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.cbre.com.

CBRE HOTELS

CBRE Hotels is one of the largest hotels teams in Europe and comprises approximately 130 people based in 20 offices across EMEA. We provide a full service offer to clients and investors, in country and cross border, with business lines covering, Investment Advisory, Investment Sales, Debt & Structured Finance, Operator Selection, and Valuation Services. To support our cross-border integration we have a tightly connected European central team. This team is tasked with supporting pan-European projects, assisting our in-country teams with strategic projects when helpful to secure the best outcome for our clients, and acting as a port of call for our global colleagues for in-bound and outbound capital markets and advisory activity relating to the European hotels sector.

THE ROLE

Job Title Graduate Analyst/Analyst, Hotels Centre Investment Properties Team

Reports To Hotels Central Team

Location Henrietta House, London

To support the Hotels central team in key client management brokerage mandates and/or operator selection mandates. Conducting and documenting complex hotel financial analysis, as well as researching and writing business development (pitches) and property marketing documents.

Key Responsibilities

• To support the Hotels Centre) team on winning new business and executing existing business.
• To gather and interpret appropriate research data, financial reports, third-party studies, and other due diligence materials in accordance with project requirements.
• To track intelligence via the maintenance of various internal databases, proactively identifying and communicating opportunities for cross-company collaboration.
• To draft well-written and persuasive sections of proposal documents and marketing materials.
• Conduct investment analysis for hotel properties utilising various methodologies such as Discounted Cash Flow, Direct Capitalization, Room Revenue Multiplier and Sales Comparison approaches.
• During a sale, to organise and facilitate the distribution of specific due diligence materials to potential operators and arrange meetings answering questions confidently and knowledgably.
• To collate and analyse responses from bidders.
• To maintain appropriate contact with clients through the preparation of regular reporting documents during marketing efforts.
• To support Centreteam and country teams in preparation of key client research, presentations, and meeting preparations.
• To conduct field visits of properties and submarkets.

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from leading hospitality university with previous work/internship experience in hotel real estate consulting or Bachelor’s degree in real estate with minimum 1 year experience in hotel transactions/operator selection.
• Requires strong analytical and quantitative skills. Ability to comprehend, analyse, and interpret complex financial information. Knowledge of hotel financial statements, as well as real estate valuation terms and concepts, strongly preferred.
• Keen interest and passion for the hospitality industry including understanding of key trends and branding/operator/concept landscape.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to effectively present information in written and verbal form to clients, both internal and external. Ability to provide efficient, timely, reliable and courteous service to clients. Appropriate language certification: English min. C2 and fluent in at least one other European Language
• The ability to maintain and update industry knowledge for use in project-related work and professionally represent the firm as international experts in hospitality.
• Well-developed IT skills, with advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong organization skills. Must be detail-oriented and able to multi-task.

Person specification

• Should be able to interact with demanding professionals in a high-energy environment.
• Process-driven, proactive and high sense of responsibility.
• Open-minded, adaptable and experienced in interacting with various European cultures
• Extremely professional, approachable with a mature demeanour
• Ability to quickly form professional relationships with colleagues and clients at all levels of seniority.