Sr. Analyst

**Senior Analyst, Sports \& Entertainment** **What this job involves:** Join JLL's Sports \& Entertainment Development Advisory practice as a Senior Analyst, where you'll be the analytical engine behind some of the most consequential venue and mixed\-use development decisions in professional sports. Our team advises teams, leagues, owners, and public authorities across MLB, NFL, NHL, WNBA, MiLB, and collegiate athletics — from billion\-dollar mixed\-use districts anchored by a ballpark, to arena site selection, to the public\-financing and feasibility cases that get projects approved and built. In this role you'll own financial models, site analyses, and client\-ready materials end\-to\-end, working directly with the Managing Director and engagement leads on deliverables that go in front of ownership\- and league\-level decision\-makers. Operating in a lean, senior, high\-visibility team, you'll carry multiple concurrent engagements with limited oversight, help shape the analytical approach on new pursuits, and serve as a resource to junior team members. This is an exceptional platform to deepen your expertise across the full development lifecycle — underwriting, site selection, economic impact, public finance, and deal execution — while advancing within JLL's global platform and contributing to projects that reshape skylines and communities. **What your day\-to\-day will look like:** * Own development pro formas, feasibility models, and cash\-flow analyses end\-to\-end for stadiums, arenas, and surrounding mixed\-use development * Lead valuations and broker opinions of value using income/cap\-rate, comparable\-sale, and comparable\-lease approaches, incorporating stacking plans and market data * Construct economic\- and fiscal\-impact models — direct, indirect, and induced multipliers; tax\-revenue and incentive analysis — to support public\-financing and legislative cases * Direct site sourcing, screening, and analysis using CoStar, parcel records, and county assessor data, and build defensible site inventories * Produce site footprints, parcel\-ownership research, and thematic maps in ArcGIS / ArcGIS Online, reconciling acreage, zoning, floodplain, traffic, and incentive\-district overlays into a single dataset per site * Build and quality\-control client\-ready presentations — site shortlists, feasibility summaries, pitch and pursuit decks, and board materials * Draft, issue, and coordinate RFPs and RFQs (engineering, master planning, design) and manage responses through selection * Assemble and defend comparable\-transaction and comparable\-venue benchmarking sets and the underlying methodology * Synthesize public deal documents — leases, non\-relocation agreements, development agreements, bond official statements — into usable facts and figures * Conduct market, demographic, and demand research and monitor stadium/arena deal terms, public\-financing structures, and league developments * Support new\-business pursuits and serve as a resource to junior analysts on modeling and GIS workflows **Required Qualifications:** * Bachelor's degree in Real Estate, Finance, Economics, Urban Planning, Business, or a related quantitative discipline (or equivalent combination of education and experience) * 2\-4 years of experience in a financial analysis environment; commercial real estate, investment banking, private equity, or consulting experience strongly preferred * Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel for financial modeling from scratch (pro formas, DCF/NPV/IRR, sensitivity analysis) and with PowerPoint for polished, client\-ready deliverables * Demonstrated ability to own workstreams end\-to\-end and manage multiple concurrent engagements against real deadlines with limited oversight * Outstanding organizational, interpersonal, quantitative, and written communication abilities, with the poise to present analysis to senior professionals and clients * Exceptional research, analytical, and problem\-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize complex market and financial data into clear recommendations * Genuine interest in sports, venues, and real estate development **Preferred Qualifications:** * GIS experience with the Esri platform (ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online) * Database and research\-platform experience with CoStar, Real Capital Analytics, county parcel/assessor data, or similar industry tools * ARGUS Enterprise experience or certification for property cash\-flow modeling * Familiarity with public finance, development incentives, or economic\- and fiscal\-impact methodology * Comfort with data tooling and automation (Python, SQL, APIs, or AI\-assisted workflows) * Prior experience mentoring analysts or leading discrete client deliverables * Pursuit of relevant industry certifications (ARGUS, advanced Excel modeling, CCIM) encouraged