Starwood Capital

Description

Company Overview:

Starwood Capital Group is a private investment firm with a core focus on real assets globally. Since its inception in 1991, the Firm has raised over $80 billion of capital and currently has approximately $115 billion of assets under management. Over the past 33 years, Starwood Capital has invested in over $260 billion of assets, including properties within every major real estate asset class.

Since founding Starwood Capital during the depths of the savings & loan crisis in the early 1990’s with the purchase of non-performing loans and real estate assets from the Resolution Trust Corp., Chairman and CEO Barry Sternlicht has overseen the Firm’s growth into a diversified investment company that today encompasses approximately 7,000 employees. The Firm maintains offices located in Miami (Headquarters), Arlington, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Greenwich, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and has affiliated offices in Amsterdam, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.

Investor Relations:

The Starwood Capital Investor Relations and Global Fundraising team is responsible for managing and enhancing investor relationships around the world on behalf of the firm’s private investment funds, co-investments, and non-listed REITs. This individual will focus on supporting the lead investor relations professional for the private wealth business. Through this experience, the individual will work with multiple teams at Starwood Capital and develop expertise related to the Firm’s business lines, investment strategies, funds and investments while focusing on the funds offered within the private wealth channel.

Responsibilities:

• Support the Firm’s efforts across the private wealth channel, focusing on serving as a relationship point of contact with our key wirehouse bank due diligence relationships
• Assist regular and quarterly due diligence requests for our existing wirehouse bank and independent broker-dealer financial partners, RIAs and Family Offices, as well as third-party due diligence firms
• Perform research and draft responses to on-going investor questions, and maintain investor question response bank
• Help maintain and regularly update our standard form DDQs, presentations and other due diligence materials
• Communicate with numerous people across virtually all departments of the firm (Asset Management, Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Portfolio Management & Accounting, Marketing, Legal, etc.)
• Leverage AI to both innovate and improve existing processes around due diligence and investor relations
• Assist with ad-hoc projects and analyses as needed

Skills/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and strong academic record, preferably with courses in finance
• 0-2 years of relevant work experience (investor relations/real estate/investment banking/accounting/finance/audit)
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Strong writing, communication, interpersonal and analytical skills
• Highly organized with proven ability to multi-task
• Composed, poised and discrete in nature with a high level of integrity
• Authorization to work in the United States
• Must be comfortable potentially working with senior management and possess the ability to develop relationships throughout the organization
• Interest or knowledge of real estate is an advantage
• Proficiency in ChatGPT is an advantage