Asset / Investment Manager Hotels - Europe

The organisation

Our client is a global real estate investor with a focus on hotel properties.

The position

The European Asset Team, based in Amsterdam, is responsible for the management of hotels in the UK, The Netherlands and several countries in Eastern Europe. 

Tasks & responsibilities

Investment management:

• Assist in full spectrum of acquisition/divestment activities, including preparing bid documents, financial modelling and returns analysis, conducting due diligence, reviewing legal documents and project managing external consultants to meet completion timeline
• Set up and manage virtual data rooms to facilitate information storage, retrieval and usage
• Prepare investment propositions/pitch books
• Conduct market research covering the UK and European hospitality markets.
• Ensure relevant market reports, analysis and trends are provided to the management team in Singapore on a timely basis
• Undertake special projects on ad-hoc basis.

Asset Management

• Review owner’s packs, analyse, and prepare questions for owner’s monthly meetings
• Financial modelling and analysis
• Attend monthly owner’s meetings, either in person or conference call and compile owner minutes
• Review hotel budgets and assist in compiling the group’s budget
• Benchmarking and looking for opportunities for profitability maximisation
• Cost saving across hotels by negotiating contracts across properties
• Hotel Balance sheet reviews
• Insurance placement, renewals and review
• Assist with hotel valuations
• Update key valuation data sheet for portfolio
• Approve capex expenditure and track against budget
• Analyse forecasts, variance analysis
• Provide market overviews on new hotels and tourism data
• Understand hotel management agreements and ensure hotels acting in accordance
• Analyse flow throughs and profitability’s
• Analyse and track hotel delivery channels
• Check rate parity on hotels websites
• Land tax review
• Check fee and lease calculations
• Manage key renewal dates for hotels
• Update and review below GOP costs
• HMA summary – update as required
• Hotel project ROIs
• Track new hotel inventory and performance 

Candidate profile

Requirements:

• Good degree in Finance, Business, Real Estate, Hospitality Management or other relevant fields
• At least 5 years working experience in investment banking, private equity, direct investment, and/or corporate finance preferably with exposure in the real estate/hospitality sector
• Strong financial modeling and quantitative skills to undertake financial analysis, forecasting and other related work
• Good power point skills
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills
• Mature, independent and motivated. Able to multi-task and adjust well in a flat and entrepreneurial work environment
• Able to travel on short notice
• Fluency in written and spoken English is a must. Fluency in German and other European languages will be a plus.

Interested?

If you are interested in this position you can sent your application (in English) to Robbert Jan Meerman by using the form below. For questions you can contact Robbert Jan on this number +31(0)6–43038330.