About You:
You are a high achiever looking to thrive in a fast-paced environment. You take pride in your own work but are comfortable collaborating with a team of highly motivated individuals. You can communicate clearly and concisely with teammates and clients, and you enjoy strong company culture and camaraderie. You can navigate multiple corporate functions, including global lines of service and corporate centers of excellence. You possess strong interpersonal skills and are willing to take on diverse tasks to achieve the team’s common goal. You value personal and professional growth and are ready to take the next step in advancing your career.

If this sounds like you, well, then you will love the culture at Avison Young!

About Us:
Avison Young is a global commercial real estate brokerage and advisory firm, offering transaction, management, financial and consulting services. We’ve designed our corporate structure to best serve our clients by enhancing collaboration across our organization.

Real estate can have an enormous positive impact on people’s lives – and we’re in the business of making spaces and places work better for people. Our purpose is to create real economic, social and environmental value as a global real estate advisor, powered by people.

We care about each other and we have each other’s backs. This makes Avison Young a great place to be a client, and a great place to work. We support the whole person and their complete wellness – economic, mental and physical – because what’s best for our business comes from our people bringing their whole selves to work.

Of course we love it here, but outsiders think we’re pretty great too! Avison Young has been recognized as one of Canada's Best Managed Companies for the 13th year in a row, with a Platinum Club designation! 

The Avison Young Vancouver office is seeking a Financial Analyst to support a high-performing industrial and capital markets team. Apart from the team’s industrial leasing and project marketing mandates, the team regularly executes on high-profile capital markets mandates, including asset, land, and portfolio dispositions and acquisitions, portfolio management advisory, partnership structuring and capital raising, development project advisory, and quantitative economic research. They have completed some of the largest industrial investment transactions in the history of Western Canada, and their clients include the most prominent industry players, from regional and national development firms to institutional asset managers to public sector entities and prominent entrepreneurs.

This is a unique opportunity to join an established and evolving team, for an ambitious and motivated individual with both technical and interpersonal skills, to develop their career into a high-performing capital markets advisor.

The base salary is aligned with market data and is estimated between $50,000 to $60,000 with the ability to achieve additional compensation through a commission. Within this range, individual pay is determined by work location and other factors, including relevant education/training, experience, and internal equity.

• Financial modelling, including discounted cash flow analysis and land residual analysis of income-producing and development properties.
• Research of real estate market trends and comparable transaction data, with preparation of quantitative datasets, forecasts, visuals, and presentation materials.
• Transaction due diligence and holistic evaluation of investment opportunities, including reviews of leases, financial statements, and other property documentation.
• Assisting deal team(s) with transaction structuring, and providing thoughtful, empirically driven considerations of transaction risks and opportunities to the firm’s clients.
• Managing the preparation of transaction and marketing documentation, including liaising with senior team members and delegation of departmental work to relevant groups within the firm, while prioritizing duties and meeting tight deadlines.
• Client coordination and involvement in pitches, negotiations, and regular transaction correspondence.
• In-depth macroeconomic research, to be used within financial analyses and economic summaries and forecasts to be distributed to the firm’s clientele.
• Maintaining awareness of local, national, and global economic and geopolitical trends, with a focus on how such trends impact the overall capital markets and the Canadian commercial real estate sector.
• Identifying new business opportunities and potential business risks.
• Other ad hoc analyses and administrative tasks as may be required from time-to-time.

• Bachelor’s Degree, with a focus in business/commerce, real estate, finance, or economics, and a strong record of academic achievement.
• Relevant industry experience in a sell-side or buy-side capacity, including, but not limited to, commercial real estate investment, finance, investment sales, development, appraisal, or consulting is preferred.
• Strong understanding of financial modelling and real estate valuation fundamentals.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, with knowledge of Argus considered an asset.
• Demonstrated quantitative skills acquired from a combination of education and work experience.
• Interest in macroeconomics and capital markets.
• Motivated team player, with the ability to work in a fast-paced, demanding environment while maintaining a positive attitude.
• Strong multi-tasker with time management and prioritization skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to summarize quantitative information into understandable communications.
• Attention to detail with the ability to produce accurate deliverables with minimal oversight.

Avison Young practices as an equal opportunity employer in all services locations around the world.  We are committed to building and maintaining a workforce diverse in experience, skills and knowledge with uniformity in service excellence, commitment and integrity. 

The firm maintains a strict policy to ensure employment opportunities are equal and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, protected veteran or military service status, or any other elements protected by law.

Avison Young welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates during the recruitment process. For those requiring assistance, information relating to the need for accommodation and accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially. 

Avison Young is committed to employing the best talent with the most fair and equitable recruitment practices. Apply with us TODAY!