Career goals guidance as a Analyst working in REIT
I’m currently working as a junior analyst(Reconciliation/accounting) role, and wanted to know what should I aim toward with this experience. I have a degree in real estate and just starting working earlier this year.

I’m interested in finance, tho what I do now is mostly accounting/ admin stuff that I’m not hugely interested in. Would love to aim for something finance related and have more upside in compensation. 

There are so many departments within the company, is it a good idea to apply for a role that I feel interested after a few years? 

I’d like the potential to eventually do it on my own as well( such as consulting for financial valuation, green development…) 

Not sure if it makes sense, hence I can use some guidance in working toward my goals.
[{"id": "ika7xbi", "text": "Ive been in your shoes. You want to do investment stuff but your role is operations. You should consider a role as an aquisitions analyst or development analyst depending if you want to focus on purchasing stabilized properties or if you want to build. Those roles will focus on the investment aspect of real estate and you will do things like underwrite property, look at comps, make business plans and estimate costs and investment returns. You will be the subject matter expert on the deal and be pulled into helping with fund raising efforts to get the deals done once you determine its a good deal and get it under contract. \n\nIf that sounds interesting to you then those are the areas you want to look into. Generally development is riskier and takes longer and comp is lower unless you are getting a significant portion of the deal. To help you make that move you should do an absolute shit ton of practicing real estate model using whatever resources you can get your hands on, I like the resources from breaking into cre and adventures in cre. You will learn to model real estate and any interview process you get into will require you to demonstrate that you have these skills. Good luck", "replies": [{"id": "ikr1gck", "text": "These roles are exactly what I\u2019ve been looking into doing myself. Can I PM you? I\u2019m currently a civil engineer looking into making a switch to a more \u201canalytics\u201d based role", "replies": [{"id": "ikr6ksi", "text": "Sure, can try to answer whatever I can", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ikb6dzp", "text": "Gtfo of that role and try to do an internal transfer to investment analyst or apply to other places until you get that role\n\nIf you don\u2019t then you\u2019ll be stuck doing back office bullshit for the rest of your days", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ikbnc4u", "text": "What geographic and property type market are you in? I agree with others. Gtfo of the back office asap.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]