Private Equity Associate – Real Estate (US)
Mercor · United States (remote) · Contract · 2026-09-17
Job description
Mercor is hiring experienced **private equity associates** to build a financial model from a synthetic deal document pack, then peer-review models built by two other contractors on the same transaction.
### What you'll do
- Build a working financial model of an assigned **real estate** transaction from a synthetic deal document pack
- Deliver an editable Excel workbook with live formulas, source references, and stated assumptions
- Peer-review two anonymized models from other contractors against a fixed set of criteria, with a short written rationale for each and a completed review scorecard
### Requirements
- **2–4 years total experience**: ~2 years investment banking (Real Estate or Industrials) followed by 1–2 years in private equity
- Currently or recently an **Associate at a real-estate-focused mid-market or upper-mid-market PE fund**
- Able to build a financial model from source documents, without a template
- Fluent **English**
### Logistics
- **Effort:** ~20–25 hours over 1.5–2 weeks