New York City Metropolitan Area
Experienced research Associate with a demonstrated history of working in the real estate and hedge funds industry. Skilled in Microsoft Word, Sales, Asset Management, Construction, and Market Research. Strong research professional with a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) focused in Finance, General from Brooklyn College.
- Conduct quality assurance and quality control of GP profiles to ensure they meet our quality standards. - Recognize inaccuracies within our dataset and initiate clean-up ad-hod projects. - Train our new hires on BAU responsibilities, CRM, Salesforce, CURA, Client Engaging Practices, JIRA workflow, and strategies to overachieve KPIs. - Monitor our inbox for pressing requests from secondary data contacts to delegate them or respond to their queries.
Hedge Funds Team: Responsible for building, developing, and maintaining strong relationships with the global hedge fund community in order to ensure a flow of insightful, accurate, and high quality proprietary data. This intelligence is then used by fund managers to compare their peers, and for investors to source new commitments and industry intermediaries. - Managing a portfolio of priority fund manager profiles. - Communicating with industry professionals to obtain valuable proprietary information. - Conducting in-depth web research (i.e. regulatory filings, news reports, etc.) and tracking daily news sources. - Updating Preqin’s online databases with key financial information, statistics, and analysis. - Contributing to Preqin’s research reports, blogs, and publications. - Executing ad-hoc research projects and data requests.
• Researched various Real Estate publications and media sources to locate and identify new real estate properties. • Utilized analytical skills to assess the viability of projects prior to entering into database for increased efficiency. • Validated information by reviewing data obtained from telephone survey team to ensure accuracy and consistency. • Assisted team in meeting monthly and quarterly goals. • Employed leadership initiative by providing training and quality assurance for new team members and nc survey team. • Developed relationships with market contacts such as contractors and developers to anticipate new construction sites. • Identified and reconcile property specifications and data discrepancies in the company’s database in order to maintain data accuracy. • Maintained excel spreadsheets including county list, real estate market list and developer list.
•Confirmed and/or obtained property level data via telephone surveys with owners, developers, sales agents, leasing agents, architects, contractors, property managers and city planning department while maintaining an average rate of 150+ per day, an error rate standard of 3.0% or less, and 13.0+ apartment/office surveys per hour. •Updated all development contact information including company name, contact name, phone number and company or complex website. •Obtained as much property level data on properties (both existing and new construction) for tertiary and IAG via telephone survey or secondary source Internet researching. •Assisted assigned research analyst obtain validations and development construction status on surveys by phone, property website or via email. •Helped the survey new construction department obtain updated information on properties from spanish speaking contacts when needed.