Vice President, Assistant Portfolio Manager

Job Summary

The Vice President, Assistant Portfolio Manager plays a critical leadership role across RXR’s existing and new real estate private equity and debt funds. The VP assists in overseeing fund-level financial performance, portfolio strategy and optimization initiatives, and ensuring the delivery of best-in-class forecasting, analytics, and investor reporting. The role requires real estate fund expertise, the ability to architect and review complex financial models, and the judgment to provide strategic recommendations to senior management. The VP partners closely with acquisitions, asset management, capital markets, and accounting while acting as a key point of accountability for fund performance, liquidity management, capital structure decisions, and investor-facing outputs.

Fund Management & Forecasting

• Lead the design, architecture, and oversight of sophisticated fund-level and investor-level financial models, ensuring accuracy, scalability, and strategic utility.
• Direct the forecasting of fund performance, including scenario modeling, sensitivity analyses, covenants, liquidity optimization, and capital deployment pacing.
• Oversee fund cash management processes and ensure compliance with fund-level and asset-level covenants.
• Oversee annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and periodic portfolio reviews, ensuring sound financial assumptions and well-supported conclusions.
• Drive portfolio-level analytics, including hold/sell analyses, refinancing/recap scenarios, return attribution, benchmarking, and market-level performance insights.
• Demonstrate familiarity with fund partnership agreements, joint venture structures, waterfall mechanics, and waterfall modeling.

Investor Reporting & Communications

• Architect, review, and refine high-impact presentations for senior leadership and investors.
• Synthesize complex financial and operational data into clear insights for executive decision-making.
• Oversee the preparation of quarterly and annual investor reports through coordinated cross‑functional inputs, ensuring high‑quality, consistent, and investor‑ready deliverables.
• Manage and quality-control the responses to investor due diligence requests, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and strategic clarity.
• Ensure that all investor-facing outputs convey a cohesive and accurate view of fund performance, strategy, and positioning.

Systems, Data Quality, and Process Leadership

• Lead fund-level data governance, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and reliability across reporting systems and analytics tools.
• Champion process improvement and automation initiatives to enhance reporting efficiency and data integrity.
• Maintain oversight of historical performance datasets and ensure they remain complete, clean, and reconciled.

Qualifications

Top Competencies

• Expert Excel Modeling: Architect new fund models, evaluate and refine existing models, and mentor team members.
• Expert PowerPoint Communication: Develop compelling presentations for complex financial topics and mentor junior staff.
• Real Estate Fund Expertise: Deep understanding of real estate fund structures, transactions, asset types, and capital markets.
• Analytical Leadership: Solve complex analytical problems and provide sound recommendations.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Collaborate and influence without direct managerial authority.

Experience & Education

• Minimum 7 years of experience in real estate private equity, investment banking, fund management, or related field.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, real estate, economics, accounting, or related field.
• Demonstrated mastery of financial modeling (testing required).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly detail-oriented, organized, proactive, and able to manage competing priorities.