AVP_ Real Estate Investments

AVP, Investments – Mumbai, India

Amherst is revolutionizing the way U.S. real estate is priced, managed and financed in order to unlock opportunities for all market participants. Driven by data, analytics, and technology, Amherst has a 20-year history of anticipating where the next risks and opportunities are likely to emerge and designing actionable strategies for investors to capitalize on opportunities across residential real estate, commercial real estate and public securities. Amherst, along with its affiliates and subsidiaries, has more than 900 employees, $5 billion under management and approximately $15 billion under advisement and oversight. www.amherst.com.

The Amherst Residential platform provides a comprehensive suite of services to facilitate the ownership of single-family rental properties, including property management services, asset-level financing, and asset management services. With a deep understanding of and proprietary analytics on the single-family home and mortgage markets, Amherst's platform combines a unique combination of national scale with local market knowledge and execution.

The Investments team oversees the investment strategy and asset management for Amherst’s $15bn real estate portfolio and is looking for AVP who will work in a fast-paced environment, quantitatively driven environment, and is comfortable managing and streamlining various high impact projects and decisions across the portfolio. The AVP of Investments will lead and oversee a team of underwriters in India responsible for acquisitions, underwriting, and ongoing asset management of a portfolio of single-family homes. This strategic leadership role involves directing the end-to-end acquisition process, rigorous underwriting, and expense management to maximize portfolio growth, operational efficiency, and investor returns.

Job Responsibilities :

• Gain full understanding of how to underwrite all the components of property underwriting and act as India SME for Investments team
• Serve as the SME to develop and drive the L&D program and training for the Investments teams
• Support the India based recruiting efforts for Investments team
• Improve productivity, and ensure delivery of high-quality services out of India to support Amherst’s Investment activities
• Develop and implement quality control protocols and procedures to ensure high productivity and high-quality work product is delivered on a timely, consistent and accurate manner
• Continuously drive process improvement and automation for Investments team workflows
• Use data and other tools to transform business processes, proactively identify trends, find root causes for challenges or inefficiencies, develop solutions and action plans using technology, and ensure timely execution of deliverables
• Collaborate with the US managers and teams to evaluate existing processes for efficiency opportunities, drive incremental change and incentivize performance improvements
• Convey innovative ideas that question the status quo and achieve return on investment
• Establish, monitor and communicate performance on key metrics to stakeholders
• Ability to provide communication, documentation, and project plans around new workflows to be transitioned to India

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Working Shift / arrangement : US Shift (1 : 30PM – 10 : 30 PM – IST and 4 : 30 PM – 1 : 30AM),Flexible - Hybrid working model