Senior Analyst, Hospitality Asset Management

Waterton Search • Chicago, IL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Analyst, Hospitality Asset Management provides the analytical and presentation support behind portfolio-level decision-making, combining financial modeling, market research, and business plan analysis to support effective asset utilization and investment decision making across the portfolio.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance, real estate, hospitality management, or a related field.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in hospitality asset management, real estate finance, hotel operations, or investment analysis.
• Valid driver's license required.
• Advanced skill set with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Superior quantitative and financial modeling skills, with the ability to build, stress-test, and defend complex models independently.
• Professional communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to tailor communication style to the audience.
• Demonstrated interest in process systemization and an aptitude for adopting structured, repeatable workflows, with room to grow into ownership of platform systems over time.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to travel up to 50%

Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains financial models analyzing hotel performance, cash flow projections, return on investment, and partnership economics across the operating portfolio.
• Prepares the underlying analysis for asset-level business plans and budgets, and owns the variance narrative and forecast updates each reporting cycle, flagging performance risk early.
• Tracks key performance indicators against plan and prepares performance summaries for portfolio review.
• Partners with the hotel operator, brand and property teams to assess financial performance, cost structure, and revenue-enhancing or cost-saving opportunities.
• Conducts site visits to evaluate physical conditions and management effectiveness.
• Supports investment decisions by providing data-driven analysis for acquisitions, renovations and repositioning strategies.
• Provides financial analysis in support of the business plan during the renovation phase, including any proposed changes to project scope, spend, or timeline.
• Monitors the property manager's execution against operator’s opening responsibilities and reports on progress toward a strong opening.
• Tracks opening-readiness milestones across budget, systems, and business plan handoff.
• Monitors hotel operations to ensure alignment with business plans.
• Works with the operator to create and implement action plans that arise from the brand compliance/quality assurance inspections.
• Works with the VP to create and implement ownership SOPs.
• Assists with post-mortems following transactions, transitions, renovations, and go-to-market launches, incorporating findings into the playbook.
• Partners with the VP to build repeatable processes around recurring FP&A and opening work, creating capacity to support further optimization of platform operations over time.
• Works with property managers, the hotel operator, and internal teams to implement asset management strategies.
• Prepares lender and investor reporting materials in support of covenant compliance.
• Tracks regulatory developments and industry trends affecting hospitality asset performance.
• Ensures compliance with all SOPs.
• Maintains professional associations and industry networking; participates in professional or industry events as needed.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and incentive program participation
• Medical, Dental, Life, Disability, and even pet insurance.
• 401k + match
• Generous paid time off, volunteer time off, and paid holidays
• Learning plans that include internal and external training, as well as consideration for tuition reimbursement.
• Employee discounts
• Wellness initiatives, like an onsite gym.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior