Senior Asset Manager
Location: 145 Taylor St, San Francisco, CA 94102
Schedule: Monday - Friday; 9:00 am - 5:30 pm; Hybrid; 3 days onsite, 2 days remote
Overview
Salary Range: $109,984.00 - $122,204.00 Salary/year
Position Type: Full Time
Job Shift: Day
Description
Title: Senior Asset Manager
Reports To: Director of Asset Management
Department: Asset Management
Status: Regular, Full-Time
FSLA: Exempt
Wage Range: $109,984 - $122,204/year
Grant Funded: No
Union Position: No
Summary: Under the general direction of the Director of Asset Management, the Senior Asset Manager is responsible for ensuring that a sub-portfolio of TNDC properties achieves the financial, physical, and social goals and standards of the owner, TNDC, and its funders. Of particular importance is planning property and portfolio re-capitalization and execution of partner exits. Overall, there is exposure to many issues with many opportunities for creative problem solving. This is a very good opportunity for professional development in real estate.
Essential Duties
Financial Well-Being
- Establish and monitor financial performance standards for a portfolio of approximately twenty (20) assets within TNDC's portfolio.
- Monitor and provide input on annual rent setting goals to meet property financial performance targets; monitor annual income certification process and participate, as-needed, in annual file audit strategy.
- Contribute to property Watch listing work-out analysis, discussions, and identification of asset-specific solutions
- Monitor the current and long-term financial status of TNDC projects by reviewing operating budget variance reports and by preparing long-term operating cash flow projections
- Review and manage asset-level data integrity in Yardi (or equivalent), document management, and Microsoft BI dashboards; standardize chart of accounts mapping for analytics
- Contribute to preparation of audited financial statements, i.e., related party fees, contingent liabilities, reserves, and surplus cash analysis and distribution
- Assist Director of Asset Management and Accounting Team in audit tie-out procedures, and provide variance narratives to streamline annual audits and monitoring visits.
- Review audited financial statement draft reports.
- Propose solutions to structural deficits and propose disposition of annual surplus/deficits
- Responsibility for at least one technical specialization for the portfolio, such as property tax, mortgage, HUD contracts, or insurance management.
Physical Well-Being
- Ensure portfolio meets owner physical quality standards
- Approve specific capital improvement project proposals
- Ensure that capital needs assessments are performed on all properties, either internally or from third-party consultants; utilize findings to inform asset management plans, capital improvements prioritization, and/or recapitalization strategies
- For moderate rehabs, serve as owner's rep in preconstruction, change order control, schedule/cost oversight, and relocation planning coordination (with PM and services)
- Assist Facilities Team with establishing portfolio decarbonization and resilience targets (electrification, heat pump conversions, envelope upgrades) with facilities team, receive reports from facilities who track energy/water benchmarking, and help direct appropriate team to pursue incentives
- Complete property site visits annually, to assess operations and physical conditions, with additional site visits as needed.
Portfolio Planning and Re-capitalization
- Write property-specific asset management plans through analysis which finds each properties problems, opportunities and actions
- Contribute to portfolio long-range planning and lead execution of actions, such as re-finance, partner exits, increasing savings or finding new funding sources
Investor/Lender Contract Administration
- Minimize financial risk by ensuring compliance with third party requirements OR Follow the annual compliance calendar (CTCAC/TCAC, CDLAC, HUD, HCD, MOHCD, SF DBI/SFFD where applicable) developed by Director and ensure timely filinge.g., Annual Owner's Certifications, monitoring submissions, rent/income limit updates, utility allowances, and affirmative marketing reporting
- Track and fulfill city monitoring/reporting obligations specific to SF-funded assets, including compliance with recorded affordability covenants and services commitments
- In collaboration with Compliance inspection schedule, monitor stakeholder inspections, findings, and close-outs
- Maintain property asset management plans/deal books that include analysis of most restrictive requirements, services requirements, and other regulatory requirements that need to be tracked annually
- Monitor resident services outcomes that tie to asset KPIs (e.g., tenancy stabilization, reduced arrears/evictions, etc.)
- Provide timely information to and maintain excellent relationships with lenders, investors, and government agencies
- Preparing contract analysis summaries for loan and equity agreements
- Administer loan and equity agreements after initial and final loan closings
Responsibilities Furthering Multiple Owner Goals
- Advance Owner's main objectives by commenting on Property Management policies plans and procedures
- Work with TNDC development staff to create initial operating budgets and project designs that achieve Asset Management goals of long-term financial stability, cost efficiency and well-maintained physical plant
- Participate in new project hand-off from development to asset management and operations, understanding the long-term performance objectives and recording regulatory requirements
- Recommend for approval management plans which accomplish owner's asset management goals
- Assist Director or VP of Real Estate in preparation of quarterly and annual dashboards and memos for Board/Finance Committee and LPsperformance trends, compliance status, capex progress, risk alerts, and strategy updates
- Manage welfare tax exemptions, appeals, and valuation negotiations (as needed).
- Perform other related duties as required
Qualifications
Required Skills:
- Ability to comprehend and correctly use informational documents including budgets, financial reports, occupancy reports, bids, contracts and meeting minutes
- Ability to prepare policies, procedures, compliance reports, investor/owner reports and correspondence
- Ability to comprehend publications and manuals including HUD and tax credit manuals, industry publications and legal documents
- Ability to communicate effectively with coworkers and staff at all levels, residents, government officials, both verbally and in writing
- Ability to stay informed of changes in policy, methods, operations, etc. as they apply to property and asset management operations and activities
- Intermediate knowledge of MS Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Ability to work with and sensitivity to a diverse, low-income, multi-ethnic population
- Sound judgment, excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong time management skills
Minimum Qualification:
- Four-year college degree
- Five years of direct experience in non-profit owner asset management as a full-charge asset manager.
- Demonstrated abilities in all five of these areas:
- Property Asset Management Plan writing, including Partner Exit Plans
- Capital Needs Projections
- Surplus cash analyses for audits
- Contract analysis
- Project management
- High level specialist knowledge in at least one of these subjects: insurance, property tax, HUD contract renewals/increases, AM design review, or databasing
- Intermediate knowledge of MS Word and MS Excel.
- Two years of experience in quantitative analysis.
- Graduate degree or professional certificates may substitute for experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Graduate Degree and/or additional related professional experience
- Intermediate knowledge of property management software or accounting software