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AECOM is seeking a Manager, Real Estate Advisory to support economic and financial analysis of real estate development projects for public, private, and institutional clients. This hybrid role is expected to be based in Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco, CA; Dallas, TX; Austin, TX; Denver, CO; or Chicago, IL. 

AECOM’s Buildings + Places (B+P) Consulting practice has three core disciplines: Real Estate Advisory, Economic Development & Urban Policy, and Sustainable Economics. Our Real Estate Advisory team leverages our real estate development, finance, strategy, and transaction experience to help our clients understand local market fundamentals, navigate complex transactions, and leverage real property to achieve policy goals. This includes making decisions about market demand, financial feasibility, and deal structure that balance financial feasibility/value, social benefits, and economic development for government agencies and institutions.

Whether leading an engagement or supporting an integrated team of designers, engineers, planners, and a variety of specialists, our work takes many forms: We sharpen master plan or development concepts to reflect what the private sector can provide. We assess policy and funding proposals to ensure they are appropriately scoped. We help bring concepts to implementation through soliciting and evaluating proposals.

The Manager will serve as Task Lead or Project Manager for advisory projects or discrete technical tasks, including developing and implementing quantitative analytical approaches; conducting financial modeling; conducting market analyses; identifying best practices; leading stakeholder engagement; developing graphics and presentations to communicate key findings; and writing sections of client deliverables and proposals.

The position requires the ability to lead client engagements, balance multiple projects and deadlines, delegate and oversee the work of junior staff, and communicate clearly with all project stakeholders including internal staff, subject matter experts, client representatives, owners and developers, regulatory authorities, and community members. While not a core responsibility of the role, Managers are also expected to support business development activities including proposals.

The core service areas for the Real Estate Advisory team include the following:

• Development feasibility studies
• Development solicitations (RFQs, RFPs, etc.)
• Deal structure and governance
• Asset strategy and business case analysis
• Portfolio strategy and optimization
• Organizational policies and procedures
• Office-to-residential conversion
• Affordable housing studies
• Market studies and highest and best use analysis

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Real Estate, Finance, Planning, Economics, Business, Public Policy, Construction, Architecture, Engineering, or related field +6 years of work experience in real estate development, real estate investment, real estate consulting, financial consulting, government real estate or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education 

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in a related field
• Experience with real estate finance and/or transactions
• Experience developing cashflow models in Excel from scratch reflecting investment returns
• Experience executing multi-disciplinary projects and leading client engagements
• Experience evaluating or structuring complex transactions, including multi-phase developments or public-private partnerships
• Experience assembling or evaluating financing for real estate projects, including debt, equity, and public funding sources, such as: TIF/TIRZ, LIHTC, municipal debt, grants, etc.
• Experience working with the public sector, including work for government entities or experience leading projects through detailed public processes such as entitlements
• Experience navigating and thriving in a multi-disciplinary work environment
• Experience developing professional reports and presenting to external audiences
• Effective communication skills including succinct language, structured thinking, and isolating takeaways/action items

About AECOM

AECOM is proud to offer comprehensive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absences, voluntary benefits, perks, well-being resources, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.