ACQUISTIONS ANALYST - AGRICULTURE PE
Central Valley Ag Partners is an Agricultural PE firm specializing in the development and farming of permanent crops in the Central Valley of California. We are actively looking for an acquisitions analyst to work along side our Director of Real Estate.
New Acquisition Analysis, Due Diligence, and Deal Sourcing
- Build financial models and spearhead the underwriting process for new investment opportunities.
- Develop pricing guidance, overview of project costs, and thoroughly articulate findings (both pros and cons) in a professional manner.
- Assist in the drafting of underwriting and market summaries for new investment opportunities
- Gather and evaluate economic, demographic, and detailed market data centered around farmland investing, portfolio crops, and future crops
- Develop monthly and annual budgets for new acquisitions
- Create water analysis and water usage reports for new acquisitions
Asset Management & Existing Portfolio Reporting
- Oversee budget performance and generate Budget to Actual reports for our investor base
- Research and identify portfolio incentives for new areas of improvement, including precision agriculture and agriculture technology
- Generate new annual and monthly budgets for existing portfolio
Strategy Reports & New Market Projects
- Offer recommendations to improve CVAP’s standard operating procedures across the investment cycle and management of our existing portfolio
- Generate and spearhead market reports for new target markets and crop types
- Generate market reports on water districts for the existing portfolio and new investments
Requirements, Experience, and Culture:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, or similar field preferred
- 2-3+ years of full-time working experience and proven track record in real estate, finance, private equity, asset management, consulting, or a related field
- Entrepreneurial, team player, collaborative mindset, honest, hardworking, and positive attitude
- Experience in Microsoft Excel, Office, and PowerPoint and Juniper Square
- Experience with waterfall calculations, DCF analysis, pivot tables, v-lookup, and financial return metrics
- Desire to work on an entrepreneurial team and the ability to wear multiple different hats in a fast-paced environment
- Passionate about the future of real estate, agriculture, and a transforming industry
- Ability to think critically and succinctly present information
- Ability to travel to new ranches and existing portfolio in the Central Valley, as needed
If you are interested send me a message: [email protected]
I'm very curious how this business model works - farming is a classic textbook example of a perfect competition thus there is little no return on investment unless at huge.
What kind of returns do you target, and what do you all advertise the "value add" for this asset class?
You are not entirely wrong, just not entirely right ! Farmers are essentially price takers unless they are providing upstream services to the commodity. That said, 2 neighboring farms may have vastly different yields and cost structures. Scale, and the resulting input costs, plus agronomic practices play a huge role in farm profitability. Farmland is a long term hold with competitive risk adjusted returns, annual coupons plus asset appreciation and beneficial tax treatment.
Interesting - how does the operational structure work - do you all have a subsidiary company that operates the property (harvest, chemigating, thinning, spraying etc.)?
Does this end up just being a syndication or is there institutional equity that plays in this space?
What kind of cap rate’s does ground typically trade on for ag properties?
Sorry for all the questions but this is a really interesting space to me…
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