Senior Consultant, Affordable Housing Finance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Guidehouse collaborates with state and local housing agencies, public housing authorities, HUD, and other mission-driven clients to design, implement, and enhance affordable housing programs.

• Provide support for client engagements that concentrate on affordable rental housing finance, program design, policy implementation, and operational improvements.

• Assist in affordable housing finance and program implementation projects for public-sector clients.

• Assess affordable housing development proposals, including 4% and 9% LIHTC projects.

• Create and evaluate project budgets, sources and uses, financial pro formas, and underwriting models.

• Perform feasibility analyses, benefit-cost analyses, and subsidy layering reviews.

• Aid in transactions and project due diligence, encompassing development, financing, closing packages, land use, and regulatory documentation review.

• Facilitate client use of HOME, CDBG, ARPA, and other public funding sources.

• Investigate and interpret HUD regulations, QAPs, and program guidance.

• Develop memos, reports, tools, templates, SOPs, and presentations.

• Conduct both quantitative and qualitative analysis, synthesizing findings into client-ready outputs.

• Support stakeholder engagement through interviews, workshops, and coordination with partner agencies, as well as development, legal, lending, and compliance teams.

• Oversee assigned tasks, timelines, and deliverables alongside project leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• No sponsorship is available for this position.

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is required.

• A minimum of THREE (3+) years of overall work experience in a related field.

• Experience in affordable housing finance, real estate lending, underwriting, LIHTC development, housing finance agency programs, community development finance, or public-sector housing program administration, including the evaluation of affordable housing transactions and financial feasibility.

• Proven experience supporting affordable housing development, finance, or program implementation projects.

• Background working with public-sector organizations, housing authorities, housing finance agencies, community development organizations, or affordable housing developers.

• Experience with workforce, mixed-income, rehabilitation, and permanent supportive housing project types.

• Involvement in phases of affordable housing transactions, including application review, underwriting, due diligence, entitlement, financing, closing, construction monitoring, or asset management.

• Skill in developing and analyzing affordable housing development budgets, sources and uses statements, operating pro formas, cash flow projections, and debt sizing analyses.

• Knowledge of QAPs, equity pricing, tax credit structuring, and affordable housing capital stacks.

• Familiarity with the development process for affordable housing transactions.

• Working knowledge of HUD multifamily programs and relevant federal regulations.

• Advanced Excel skills, including financial modeling, scenario analysis, pivot tables, lookup functions, and sensitivity testing.

• Strong analytical and research skills with a keen attention to detail.

• Clear and effective written and verbal communication abilities.

• Capacity to manage multiple priorities and adhere to deadlines in a consulting environment.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance.

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays.

• Position may qualify for a discretionary variable incentive bonus.

• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance.

• 401(k) Retirement Plan.

• Basic Life & Supplemental Life Insurance.

• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.

• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability coverage.

• Student Loan PayDown assistance.

• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities.

• Skills Development & Certifications.

• Employee Referral Program.

• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach initiatives.

• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program.

• Mobility Stipend.

• Flexible benefits package.

• Travel Required: Up to 50%.