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Jessica Jimenez - Senior CRE Analyst

Location: Mexico City, Mexico

Compensation range discussed: $1,500 - $2,300

LinkedIn Profile | email: jessjimenezb96@gmail.com | Phone: +55 61 98407-4263

Summary

Civil Engineer and Senior Real Estate Underwriter with 4+ years of experience in US Commercial Real Estate, currently managing loan lifecycles for Florida-based lender New Wave Loans. Previously, she spent three years at Kroll, conducting appraisals across 35 US states, including New York, Chicago, California, and Texas. Her expertise blends financial analysis—underwriting, DSCR, and IRR modeling—with marketing design, creating investment decks and pitch materials using Canva and PowerPoint. She actively reviews Offering Memoranda (OMs) and Broker Opinion of Values (BOVs) and leverages AI tools such as ChatGPT and NotebookLM to accelerate due diligence by leveraging data from CoStar. Notably, she produced a complex hotel valuation of $53M that matched an internal appraisal by Cushman & Wakefield, significantly validating her analytical accuracy.

Meet Jessica

This video from our screening interview provides a look into Jessica's background and experience:

Candidate Snapshot

US-based Real Estate Experience

• 4+ Years of US CRE Focus: Currently serves as a Senior Underwriter for a Florida-based lender, New Wave Loans, directly handling loan processes within the US market.

• Nationwide Appraisal Scope: Spent three years at Kroll, conducting complex appraisals and valuations across 35 US states, with specific market experience in high-volume regions including New York, Chicago, California, and Texas.

• Institutional Alignment: Validated analytical accuracy by producing a $53M hotel valuation that matched an internal appraisal by Cushman & Wakefield, demonstrating adherence to top-tier US institutional standards.

Real Estate Documentation & Design

• Pitch & Investment Deck Creation: Leverages a hybrid skillset to design investment decks and pitch materials, utilizing Canva and PowerPoint to translate financial data into visual marketing assets.

• OM & BOV Proficiency: Actively reviews and engages with Offering Memorandums (OMs) and Broker Opinion of Values (BOVs), ensuring familiarity with the structure, data requirements, and narrative flow necessary for deal presentation materials.

Commercial Real Estate Expertise

• Financial Modeling & Underwriting: Possesses strong technical proficiency in underwriting, DSCR (Debt Service Coverage Ratio), and IRR (Internal Rate of Return) modeling, bridging the gap between raw financial data and investable insights.

• Due Diligence: Conducts deep-dive research and due diligence using industry-standard data sources to support valuation and lending decisions.

Education

• Engineering Degree, Civil Engineering | National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) (2019)

• Exchange Student, Civil Engineering | South China University of Technology (2019)

Certifications

• ACI Concrete Field Testing Technician - Grade I | American Concrete Institute (5 years - expired)

Tools & Technologies

• Real Estate Data: CoStar (Advanced), LoopNet, Argus (Intermediate)

• Design & Presentation: Canva, Microsoft PowerPoint.

• AI & Productivity: ChatGPT, Gemini, and NotebookLM (utilized for accelerating due diligence workflows).

Key Qualifications & Highlights

• Hybrid Analytical & Creative Profile: uniquely combines hard skills in financial underwriting and valuation with the design capabilities required for marketing roles. This dual competency enables the creation of marketing materials (OMs/Decks) that are not only visually professional but also financially accurate and structurally sound.

• AI-Driven Workflow Optimization: Proactively integrates AI tools like ChatGPT and NotebookLM into the real diligence process. This modern approach to synthesizing data from sources like CoStar and LoopNet suggests an ability to improve workflow efficiency and speed-to-market for deal materials.

• Proven Valuation Precision: Demonstrated exceptional analytical reliability by independently producing a complex $53M hotel valuation that closely aligned with a third-party report from a major brokerage firm, mitigating risk and validating internal underwriting methodologies.

Screening Interview - Key Observations

• Process Automation & Efficiency: She demonstrates a strong drive to eliminate manual redundancies. For example, she proactively replaced a manual Word-based process for creating "Term Sheets" (loan offers) with an automated Excel tool she built, allowing her team to generate and present terms instantly during live committee meetings.

• Advanced AI Integration: Going beyond basic prompting, she utilizes NotebookLM and Google Drive’s audio features to convert 50-60 page Offering Memorandums into 5-minute audio podcasts, allowing her to rapidly digest deal narratives and key data points. She also utilizes AI to "enhance" aerial imagery from Google Earth for her investment decks, ensuring visual quality meets investor expectations.

• Design Expertise: In her current role at New Wave Loans, she has become the sole designate for creating high-stakes investment decks because the partners prefer her visual style over standard templates. She expressed genuine pride in translating complex data (like maps and renderings) into "attractive" visual narratives that secure private funding.

• Confidence in Valuation: She reflected on a pivotal moment where her independent $53M hotel valuation closely matched a confidential appraisal. She cited this as a defining moment for her professional confidence.

• Schedule & Capacity: During the interview, she inquired about the possibility of maintaining her current role concurrently with this new position. She stated she is "not an 8-hour worker" due to her speed and efficiency, but noted that if exclusivity is required, she would expect a compensation package that reflects that shift.