About YELDO

YELDO is a fintech company in the real estate investment space. We offer direct digital access to institutional-level real estate investments via our technology platform.

As of today, we have raised capital for EUR 850m+ of real estate projects in Europe and Switzerland with an historical IRR of ca. 14.6% and 0% default rate.

Our mission is to deliver the best online real estate investing experience by bringing access, transparency, and liquidity to invest in an asset class that has historically been available only to the few.

YELDO has offices in Germany, Switzerland and Italy.

Role summary

As our Real Estate Investment Junior Associate you will be our go-to person for real estate valuation and modelling, assessing all our investment opportunities and making your recommendations to our senior Real Estate team members. You will be in the driving seat to ensure YELDO Group deals are thoughtfully analyzed and properly presented.

You will interact internally with all YELDO team members from origination to distribution, and externally with advisors and service providers to ensure that you have all the info you need to support the delivery of our value proposition: offering the best institutional-grade real estate deals for our investors.

You will report directly to YELDO CIO - Chief Investment Officer - (20+ years of Real Estate investment experience in Morgan Stanley).

Main job activities

• Analyze and evaluate real estate investment opportunities applying good judgement and critical thinking
• Create and manage complex financial cash-flow and valuation models, including debt analysis and structuring tranching and waterfalls
• Work closely with senior members of the Investment Team, support transaction execution on a day-to-day basis (with specific focus on financial modelling, due diligence, and liaising with internal and external stakeholders)
• Prepare investment papers and present to the YELDO leadership team and the Investment Committee
• Support documenting, structuring and financing of transactions also including dealing with external counterparties (advisors, lawyers, accountants) on detailed, day-to-day aspects of a transaction (both face-to-face and digitally)
• Leverage on support from intern resources
• Contribute to developing our internal valuation & analysis tech tools working hand-in-hand with our tech team

Profile description

You are the perfect candidate if you have:

• A quantitative degree with excellent results
• 2+ years of experience in real estate roles (eg. real estate private equity, fund and investment manager, M&A IB teams)
• Excellent financial analysis and modelling skills
• English proficiency, another language such as German, French is a plus
• Ownership: you want to take full responsibility for your actions and your results
• Activation: you are proactive and get things done
• Communication skills: you have excellent written and verbal communication skills and engage senior leadership

As a tech startup our day-to-day is challenging and fast-moving, that’s why we are looking for passion, motivation and creativity: you’ll be asked to analyse our deals, be effective in your problem-solving, stand up for your judgement and be independent in your recommendations.

Other important things to know

Location: Milan, Italy. Training: a training budget will be available for your personal development for reaching your objectives and YELDO’s objectives. Eg. public speaking, coding, Excel, etc.

Contract: Full-time position with permanent contract.

Benefits and perks: We offer an incentive plan related to personal and company results

Application and selection process

• Submit your CV via our website
• General interview with HR (webconference)
• Technical assignment (live or offline)
• Early stage interview with CIO (live)
• Fit interview with COO (live)
• Final interview with CEO (live)

We strive for the whole process to last 3 weeks from the first interview.

At YELDO, inclusion, equity, and diversity are critical in achieving our goals of access, transparency and simplicity in the real estate investment space. Our team differences are the special ingredients that make us better able to compete. Come join us with your best self!