Consultant, Daily Valuation & NAV Accounting

TalentMinded • Chicago, IL

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

Reporting to the Manager, Daily Valuation & NAV Accounting, our client is hiring a Consultant, Daily Valuation & NAV Accounting to support their growing daily valuation services practice. As the new Consultant, you will work with institutional real estate clients, appraisers, valuation teams, and internal stakeholders to support NAV calculations and share-price reporting layered on top of quarterly real estate valuation processes. You will project net investment income and changes in property values, coordinate valuation updates throughout the quarter, investigate variances, and help ensure accurate, timely client deliverables. This is a specialized opportunity to work at the intersection of commercial real estate valuation, accounting, financial analysis, and analytics while contributing to the continued growth of an evolving service offering.
This role is a hybrid role open to candidates anywhere in the United States, preferably Chicago.
What’s in it for you
Specialized expertise. You will build deep expertise at the intersection of commercial real estate valuation, accounting, NAV reporting, and financial analytics. Working with institutional real estate portfolios and sophisticated clients, you will develop a specialized skill set that is increasingly relevant as investment structures create demand for more frequent valuation and reporting.
Ownership and influence. You will join a growing service line where your ideas and expertise can directly shape how daily valuation services are delivered. You will have the opportunity to improve processes, strengthen workflows, and help build the capabilities needed to support a scalable practice.
Breadth and visibility. You will work across valuation, accounting, appraisal, and client teams, gaining exposure to the full lifecycle of daily NAV reporting and valuation updates. You will collaborate with appraisers, internal valuation teams, clients, and senior stakeholders while managing multiple engagements and contributing to high-quality client deliverables.
Career growth. As the practice continues to grow, you will have the opportunity to deepen your technical expertise, take on increasing ownership, and grow toward broader leadership or subject matter expert responsibilities within Daily Valuation & NAV Accounting and the wider Valuation Advisory practice.

Requirements

• Experience in accounting, financial analysis, and commercial real estate, with an understanding of how property performance, debt, valuations, and other financial inputs affect NAV and investment reporting.
• Comfort interpreting complex financial information, identifying trends and variances, and using sound judgment to develop projections and recommendations.
• Strong Excel skills, including financial modelling, budgeting, and variance analysis.
• Experience with accounting or financial systems and ability to learn new tools and processes quickly.
• Project management skills: ability to manage multiple engagements and deadlines, create clear plans, identify at-risk deliverables, and communicate effectively when priorities or timelines change.
• Ability to build effective working relationships with clients, appraisers, colleagues, and stakeholders.
• Ability to interpret requests, explain complex information clearly, and coordinate work across multiple contributors.
• Self-starter who takes initiative, works independently, and is comfortable operating in an evolving environment where processes are still being developed.
• Energized by the opportunity to solve problems, recommend improvements, and take ownership of how work gets done.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with platforms such as Yardi, MRI, JD Edwards, or similar systems.
• Experience coaching or mentoring others.
• A CPA and/or MAI designation.

Responsibilities

• Support daily valuation and NAV calculations by reviewing financial information, property values, debt positions, equity calculations, and working capital adjustments.
• Coordinate valuation updates by working with appraisers, engagement teams, clients, and other stakeholders to collect and incorporate updated property valuations and other information.
• Support material event analysis by identifying and assessing events such as new leases, bankruptcies, and other significant market or property developments that may affect valuation.
• Own assigned client engagements by managing timelines, organizing information, tracking deliverables, and communicating with teams and stakeholders.
• Improve processes and build structure by reviewing existing workflows, templates, and documentation to identify opportunities for standardization, automation, and improved efficiency.
• Help modernize the way we work by identifying opportunities to improve, standardize, automate, and modernize existing workflows, templates, and processes.
• Build expertise and contribute to the team by learning from experienced colleagues and developing expertise in daily valuation and NAV accounting.

Benefits

• Specialized expertise development
• Opportunity for ownership and influence in a growing service line
• Breadth of experience across valuation, accounting, appraisal, and client teams
• Career growth opportunities
• Exposure to the full lifecycle of daily NAV reporting and valuation updates
• Collaboration with senior stakeholders
• Opportunity to deepen technical expertise
• Opportunity to take on increasing ownership
• Opportunity to grow toward broader leadership or subject matter expert responsibilities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed