Investment associate

Description

The Investment Management Associate helps oversee and grow Another Star's global portfolio of owned, leased and managed citizenM hotels. The role covers the full investment life-cycle: divestments, expansion under the citizenM banner, debt and capital markets, and hands-on asset management.

You will own value-add initiatives at asset level, represent Another Star with co-owners, landlords and stakeholders, and keep reporting and processes lean so the team can focus on creating value.### Key Responsibilities

• Support the Managing Director of Investment Management in driving deal flow by communicating with brokers, prospective third-party operators, and external advisors to deliver on value add initiatives;
• Manage deal flow for asset-lite development projects including initial underwriting, relationship management, and maintaining the development process life-cycle;
• Own the team’s accounts payable responsibilities to ensure compliance, payment timeliness, and ledger accuracy across property and project expenses;
• Provide financial and investment analysis on ad hoc strategic initiatives;
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to help lead the execution of the investment and divestment strategies for assigned assets;
• Work closely with legal, property management, capital markets, finance, accounting, and operations teams to review agreements, construction/capital projects, loan documents, leases, and other materials that impact the operations of the asset and ownership’s obligations;
• Perform detailed reviews of budgets, forecasts, monthly income statements, STR reports, cash flow projections, and create and maintain internal asset-level dashboard reports to identify inefficiencies and help create strategies around maximizing profitability and value;
• Maintain internal and external property reporting materials including asset decks, investor reporting, internal communications, and routine deliverables;
• Identify cost-saving and efficiency opportunities through the review of monthly and annual financial reports to drive shareholder value and improve hotel performance.

Qualifications / skills

• Relevant and proven experience in hotel or real estate investment, asset management, transactions, lending or advisory;
• Advanced analytical, written, and verbal communication skills;
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, with high expertise in Excel and financial modeling;
• Self-motivated, flexible, and highly detail-oriented with strong quality control;
• Ability to effectively manage competing priorities, projects, and deadlines;
• Experience in asset management fundamentals and principles including hotel performance metrics, valuations, and debt structuring;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. Proficiency in French or other European languages is highly advantageous;
• Uses AI to its full potential.

What's in it for you?

• citizenM experience nights for you (discounts for friends and family)
• Favourable rates at Marriott hotels
• Personal and professional development opportunities and programs
• Latest tech devices and all the tools you need to be successful in your role
• Commuting travel costs covered (by car or public transport)
• Pension and cycle-to-work scheme
• Subsidized fresh daily lunches at our support office
• Flexible public holidays
• Employee assistance program
• Varied team days and social events (from food trucks and quizzes at the office to parties on boats)
• Modern office in Leiden, 500m from the central station

Location / hours* Leiden Support Office. Hybrid working is possible, on average two days in the office. Not fully remote. This is a full-time role. Start date = as of January 2027

Please note that we are only able to consider applicants with the right to work in the Netherlands. We won't be able to sponsor Visas for this role.### About Another Star

Another Star is the company behind all citizenM hotels in Europe and the USA. Our purpose is simple – to make sure citizenM hotels have everything to run smoothly and keep the guests happy. Bedding, tech, room maintenance, crunchy croissants and more – Another Star takes care of it all.

citizenM hotels were founded in 2008 by Rattan Chadha. From 2008 to 2025, citizenM was its own owner-operator, which is unusual in the traditional hotel industry where separate owners and operators are the norm. In 2025, the citizenM brand was acquired by Marriott International and added to their existing portfolio of 30+ hotel brands worldwide. A new company was created to keep hotel operations under one roof – that’s Another Star. It may be a new company by name, but it’s made of the same people who have been building and running citizenM hotels for two decades – knowledgeable and guest-fanatic.

Another Star operates 37 citizenM hotels – all in Europe and the USA. The remaining two hotels – one in Kuala Lumpur and one in Taipei – are operated by Marriott.