Financial Analyst

The Firm - McCarthy Cook & Co.

McCarthy Cook & Co. is a privately held commercial real estate investor and manager with offices in Orange County, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.  We are a passionate and collaborative team of disciplined real estate investors in a vertically integrated real estate operating company.  We invest in, vision and manage great work environments focused on creative office campuses, mixed-use office and life-science investments. 

We bring a special blend of entrepreneurial zeal and institutional capabilities to our investment & development underwriting and our strategic asset management disciplines, including leasing, property management, construction management and project accounting. We build exceptional relationships with our customers and institutional partners and every day is a new opportunity.  As a collaborative team, McCarthy Cook offers opportunity for personal and professional growth for enterprising, self-starting teammates.  We own and manage over three million square feet of Class A office and mixed-use assets in the western U.S. and partner with premier institutional investors such as Prudential, Northwestern Mutual, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Oxford Properties, Northwood Investors, Alliance Bernstein, Blackstone and Rialto Capital.  

The Opportunity

Join the McCarthy Cook Team as a Financial Analyst working at McCarthy Cook’s headquarters office in Orange County.  As a private, entrepreneurial team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with MCC’s senior principals and team members on acquisition underwriting, due diligence and asset management assignments and participate in Investment Committee meetings and strategy discussions.  Your primary areas of focus will be the following:

• Building investment underwriting models for new acquisition opportunities in concert with senior principals and acquisition team members.
• Completing asset management assignments including lease analyses, hold/sell studies, potential tenant due diligence, asset valuations and financial modeling.
• Managing a variety of office market and econometric studies.
• Working closely with the head of Asset Management and CFO on asset, accounting and financial reporting assignments.
• Assisting in due diligence efforts during acquisition, disposition and financing processes.

We are looking for a true team player.  If you have excellent written and oral communication skills, are a critical thinker with great analytical skills, can multi-task, manage deadlines, and pay close attention to detail and think and work proactively, then we should talk! If you think creatively and collaboratively as a team player, take ownership of assignments, and pitch-in whenever and wherever needed to support the cause, then we need to meet.  If the opportunity to enhance, activate and differentiate the workplace experience for today’s forward-thinking companies excites you, then you are a fit for the McCarthy Cook’s creative, entrepreneurial team culture. Ideal candidates will have work experience with real estate financial modelling, including a strong competency in Argus and Excel.  

Skills and Experience                          

• College Degree. We look forward to hearing what you did and where.
• Previous financial analyst experience and training is ideal but not required.  Summer internship experience is welcome and recent college graduates with a strong financial background and real estate coursework will absolutely be considered.
• Proficiency in Argus Enterprise and Excel-based financial modelling is a big plus.
• Great computer skills including Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint with a strong emphasis on Excel).
• A can-do personality that is ready to pitch in and work after hours from time to time to meet important team deadlines and close deals.

McCarthy Cook & Co. offers competitive compensation including salary, bonus and medical insurance package and the benefit of working with a great team! McCarthy Cook & Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and an inspired place to work!