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About the Role
The Investment Officer will play an important role in the origination, review, selection, and monitoring of real estate investments within the EMEA region for a leading global indirect real estate manager with over $70bn in AUM. This role offers direct access to high-quality deal flow with best-in-class managers.
Responsibilities
- Assist with the origination and execution of fund investments, co-investments, JVs, recapitalisations, and operational, GP stake, and secondaries investments in real estate private market transactions across EMEA.
- Contribute to thought leadership with internal regional teams, evaluating existing portfolios and building external deal flow methodically by market, asset class, and preferred/exclusive formats.
- Remain current on market developments to frame sourcing and investment strategies.
- Convert industry insights into comprehensive investment recommendations and risk assessments.
- Lead, contribute to, and develop workflows for liaising with internal committees, legal, operations, and tax/structuring staff, as well as external parties including fund managers, brokers/advisors, consultants, sellers, LPs, and lenders.
- Negotiate terms, and underwrite investments at an asset- and portfolio-level, and test/scrutinize the underwriting of related partners and managers.
- Lead deal investment processes, including legal, tax, commercial, operational, and structuring due diligence, managing the production, refinement, and finalization of due diligence materials.
- Manage and coordinate junior support and training, particularly around investment underwriting.
- Contribute to the development of underwriting templates for modeling, analysis, and valuation across single assets, portfolios, operational real estate, and funds, including roll-up analyses and financing overlays, and manage their implementation and use in transactions.
- Drive production of Investment Committee memorandums and recommendations of transactions to the UGA-RE Global Investment Committee.
- Contribute to systematic processes and structures for oversight, monitoring, and management of corporate and operational actions, as well as summary and forecast materials for client and investment reporting.
- Support asset and risk management, and the reporting of investments.
- Support fundraising efforts.
Requirements
- Solid relevant experience in real estate private markets.
- Proficiency in a second European language is mandatory.
- Experience across funds, co-investments, JVs, secondaries, and/or recapitalisations (but not mandatory).
- Excellent computer skills, including the application of AI models within investment underwriting, advanced use of Microsoft Office, financial modeling capability, and proficiency within programming (e.g., R or Python, etc.) is a strong plus.
- Demonstrate deep and advanced industry networks with principal real estate groups, fund managers, asset companies, LPs, financial advisors, brokers, valuers, and sellers, essential across Europe.
- Strong underwriting capabilities.
- Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, ideally with a post-graduate qualification (but not mandatory).
- Solution-oriented thinker with strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Organized and focused on results, with the ability to work accurately under pressure.
- Collaborative personality, committed team player with the ability to work independently.
- Curiosity to explore how AI can improve workflows, with sound judgment for validating outputs and aligning with policies, risk standards, and ethical use.
Skills
- Investment strategies
- Real estate investment
- Indirect real estate investment
- AI models within investment underwriting
- Microsoft Office
- Financial modeling
- Programming (e.g., R or Python)
- Underwriting
- Communication
- Collaboration
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
- Post-graduate qualification
Benefits
- New challenges
- Supportive team
- Opportunities to grow
- Flexible working options when possible
About the Company
- UBS is a leading and truly global wealth manager and the leading universal bank in Switzerland.
- We also provide diversified asset management solutions and focused investment banking capabilities.
- Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, UBS is present in more than 50 markets around the globe.
- We know that great work is never done alone. That’s why we place collaboration at the heart of everything we do.
- Want to find out more? Visit ubs.com/careers.
Equal Opportunity
- UBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We respect and seek to empower each individual and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills and experiences within our workforce.
- We’re committed to disability inclusion and if you need reasonable accommodation/adjustments throughout our recruitment process, you can always contact us.