Commercial Real Estate Reporting Specialist

Company Overview:ASB Real Estate Investments, a division of ASB Capital Management LLC, is a leading U.S. real estate investment management firm from over 300 institutional clients. Headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area, ASB invests in major markets across the United States, concentrating in industrial, multifamily, office, retail, and self-storage properties.
ASB has built success around talented, hard-working individuals who collaborate to gain a broad and integrated understanding of real estate disciplines to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns. We encourage a culture of collaboration, and all members of our team engage in offering their points of view on major decisions in an extremely inclusive management process.
IntroductionCommercial Real Estate Investment Manager with $6B in assets is seeking an innovative, forward-thinking, and experienced reporting and data warehouse specialist that has deep domain knowledge in real estate private equity. You will take over day-to-day responsibilities on managing, maintaining, and reporting on our internal data warehouse that centralizes core business data, such as leasing, appraisals, financials, receivables, performance, and debt. As a Reporting Specialist you will wear many hats, including data warehouse engineer, ETL developer, API engineer, database administrator, data architect, and data quality assurance analyst on the back-end side, in addition to report developer, report automation engineer, and visualization specialist on the front-end.
Domain Knowledge RequirementsIt is extremely important that you’re very comfortable with data modeling for long-term commercial leases. You have experience building integrations with property management and appraisal systems such as MRI, Yardi, OneSite, and Argus. You understand mechanics, calculations, and jargon around commercial leasing, recoveries, appraisals, leverage, returns, receivables, and other real estate industry concepts. You know how to build financial statements from general ledger data. You’re intimately familiar with time value of money calculations. You’re comfortable holding conversations with non-technical business users on real estate and investment topics.
Technical Knowledge RequirementsYou’ve successfully delivered data warehousing projects, ideally in SQL Server. You have a deep understanding of data modeling, especially regarding temporal dimensions and rollup calculations. You are also an expert in Excel, PowerPoint, and VBA, and fully understand how to build sophisticated, visually appealing Excel-driven reporting for recurring delivery. You’re comfortable writing the occasional Python script for automation of routine tasks. You understand how to build visualizations in business intelligence tools, such as Tableau. You can confidently integrate the data warehouse to source systems via API, linked servers, and flat files. You are qualified to migrate the data warehouse from on-premises SQL Server to a cloud solution, such as Snowflake or Databricks, if the need arises. 

Summary of Competitive Benefits & Perks:

• Health/Medical Insurance including Dental and Vision
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off
• Bonus/Target Incentive
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Complimentary usage of modern in-house fitness center
• On-premise full-service dining center discounts
• Discounts via the company’s EAP
• Monthly Employee Recognition Programs
• Referral bonus
• Pre-tax transportation options
• Plus more!

Soft Skills Requirements

• You’re an excellent communicator that knows how to toggle between technical conversations with department colleagues and high-level, “plain English” conversations with business teams. You’re comfortable presenting in front of a large audience.

Other Requirements

• You’re internally motivated, driven, and very curious. You love to build things and are obsessed with efficiency. You understand that our firm is made up of mostly real estate professionals and does not have an engineering culture. Most of your colleagues will not understand the details of your work. You also understand that our firm emphasizes reliable working solutions over the use of cutting-edge technologies. You have a “whatever it takes” mentality and will roll up your sleeves to do data wrangling, report formatting, and quality assurance work, where necessary.

Responsibilities

• Manage, maintain, and optimize on-premises SQL Server data warehouse for core business reporting.
• Manage monthly & quarterly business processes to generate and deliver timely and accurate reporting.
• Develop reports, analyses, visualizations, integrations, and automation processes for business teams.
• Collaborate with business teams to understand data-related pain points and develop high-quality solutions.
• Build frameworks, workflows, and tools that create efficiencies for the Data & Analytics team.
• Achieve mastery of commercial real estate concepts and calculations, regarding leasing, financial accounting, appraisals, valuation, forecasting, budgeting, debt, derivatives, and returns.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly and concisely to non-technical counterparts.
• Assist with non-technical tasks that support the mission of the Data & Analytics team and/or the firm.
• Research and advise on use cases for modern technologies, such as AI and cloud computing.

Education / Additional Job Qualifications

• Bachelor of Business Administration or Analytics
• Passed CFA Level 1 (or MBA)
• 5+ years building data warehouses
• 5+ years’ experience building advanced reports in Excel

Core Company Competencies

• Perseverance
• Focus
• Accountability
• Empathy
• Social Responsibility

Core Job Competencies

• Communication - Interact with employees at many levels of the organization and must have the ability to express ideas and information orally and in writing keeping in mind the intended audience.
• Analysis skills - Can be counted on to gather, understand, and process information that is critical to the organization’s operations.
• Planning & Organization - Accomplishing specific goal(s) while managing time and resources to meet deadlines and expectations.
• Attention to Detail - Focus on all areas of a project and paying close attention to all aspects of it.

Working Conditions/Physical Requirements
• This position is based in an office environment with prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

The actual base pay offered is determined by several variables, including, as appropriate, the applicant's qualifications for the position, years of relevant experience, distinctive skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held.  Base pay is one component of ASB Investment Management's total compensation package, which also includes access to or eligibility for healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, bonus plans and more. 
ASB Real Estate Investments is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We foster an environment that recognizes employees’ unique skillsets and ensure that all employees have an equal opportunity to grow and advance.
If you are a candidate in need of assistance or an accommodation in the application process, please contact corporate.resumes@bfsaul.com or 301-986-6000. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled