Real Estate Finance Specialist

Our Climate, Your Future

Affine is a non-profit climate consultancy that bridges the gap between climate-aligned building transformation and sustainable real estate finance. We reshape how buildings and infrastructure are designed, improved, and financed. Our solutions prove that profitability and climate responsibility are mutually reinforcing. Our clientele and partners are broad, ranging from affordable housing providers to financial institutions — from development corporations and SMEs to First Nations communities.

The Opportunity

Our Board and Executive Director are scaling our team to support building owners and financial institutions with decarbonization, climate risk management, and sustainable finance. We're hiring a Real Estate Finance Specialist at the intersection of real estate investment, energy transition, and finance—someone who takes ownership and has an entrepreneurial mindset. Managing priorities, staying on time and budget, and keeping everything on track are a given. The real value lies in being an independent and analytical thinker who can perform financial modelling, structure research, proactively execute work with an eye to the implications for our clients.

Join a passionate, mission-driven, fast paced team making a real difference in decarbonization and sustainable finance innovation across BC and Canada.

Responsibilities

Client Engagement & Advisory

• Provide analysis, research and build presentations with Affine leads on projects with our diverse clients: financial institutions, housing providers, and real-estate owners.
• Do the practical work to integrate climate and sustainability considerations into investment, lending, and development decisions.
• Conduct financial and policy modelling.

Technical & Financial Analysis

• Perform financial modelling for retrofit and new-build projects, including payback periods, IRR/NPV analyses, and sensitivity to carbon pricing or incentive structures.
• Perform comparative valuation models using a Discounted Cash Flow model, and other approaches to show impact of different carbon and climate performance levels.
• Quantify GHG emissions, energy-use intensity, and resilience metrics across building portfolios.

Research & Policy Insight

• Research and keep up to date files on financing options such as green bonds, blended-finance structures, CMHC MLI Select, and capital-relief mechanisms for green assets.
• Track emerging sustainable-finance frameworks (e.g., OSFI B-15, ISSB, EU Taxonomy) and housing-sector policies relevant to climate risk and capital access.

Program Design & Implementation

• Support analysis and design of green-loan programs, retrofit financing pilots, or portfolio decarbonization roadmaps.
• Provide feedback from a real estate owner and lender perspectives on possible changes to property valuation models and government policies.

Team & Business Development

• Contribute to funding and new project proposals.
• Support the research and writing of thought-leadership pieces.
• Support continuous improvement of Affine’s analytical tools, frameworks, and data platforms.

Experience

• A minimum of 2 years professional experience in commercial real estate, financial analysis for real estate investments, or brokerage.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, real estate, accounting, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of real estate asset management, investments, business case development, and financial analysis.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to transform large amounts of raw data into actionable reports and recommendations (advanced Microsoft Excel).
• Highly detail-oriented with the ability manage competing priorities and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Personal attributes: Listen and seek first to understand, life-long learner, self-starter.

Value-added qualifications

• Sustainable real estate finance, energy efficiency / GHG management; including a technical understanding of decarbonization mechanisms and technologies and renewable energy.
• Experience with real estate standards and GHG quantification frameworks such as GRESB, PCAF, GHG Protocol, TCFD, CRREM.

 

 

What’s in it for you

• Meaningful Impact: Join a mission-driven organization that delivers real world decarbonization projects and sustainable finance innovation. Contribute to innovative projects that empower businesses to manage climate risk and enhance building resilience.
• Supportive Work Culture: We place a great deal of importance on offering our team the chance to grow and lead fulfilling lives both at work, and at home. We believe that how we work together is as important as the work we do.
• Competitive Compensation: Annual salary range of $70,000 - $90,000 commensurate with experience and qualifications.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy a generous health and RRSP benefits package and flexible work options.
• Contract Details: This is a temporary, full-time position through March 2027, with the possibility of extension based on organizational needs and funding.
• Location: Being based in Vancouver is an advantage, as it allows working from our office at least 2 days per week.

We’re growing our team with individuals from diverse backgrounds because we believe in the benefits of diversity of thought, creativity, innovation, new perspectives and ideas – and we want to offer the same to our clients.

We are committed to building teams based on qualifications, merit, and organizational needs. If we can make things easier through accommodation in the recruitment process, please let us know.

How to apply

Please submit your resume and cover letter in one PDF to hello@affineclimate.ca with the job title in the subject line. In your cover letter, please provide us with an overview of your experience in the real estate sector and how your vision will help further Affine’s operations and mission. Applications will be considered until the position has been filled.

While we appreciate all applications, only candidates under consideration will be contacted. Please note that only those already entitled to work in Canada legally need apply.

Affine Climate Solutions is grateful to work on the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəjˀəm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil Waututh), Coast Salish, Á,LEṈENEȻ ȽTE (W̱SÁNEĆ) and Lekwungen/Songhees Nations.