I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Heitman (Hong Kong) in Apr 2022
Interview
I have applied the captioned role ("FOA") on March 31, 2022. The whole process took around 1.5 months with no offer while spoken to 7 people.
On April 19, 2022, I received an e-mail for being selected for further assessment/interview and got arranged a conversation with the VP of the HR team.
Next day I spoke to that team member. This is mainly a phone screening to let the HR see if your working experience and motivation could fit into the role. I was also shared the company culture during the call.
Two days later on April 22, 2022 the first round of interview started - involving 4 team member with 1v1 zoom interview with 30 mins each, total 2 hours. During the session, members of the following are met:
- Senior Finance Manager of FOA team based in US: mainly asking the working experience, and provide further details on the exact work done.
- AM team member based in Sydney: mainly asking reasons of leaving, behavioral question including how to cope with breakdown in communication, also asking you to share a view on a type of investment product based on the current situation
- Senior Associate of FOA team based in HK: mainly asking the working experience, and clarify certain details on my previous working experience with motivation to join Heitman
- VP of FOA team based in HK: asking reasons of leaving, while he also emphasize a lot on the job role since he is the direct reporting line manager of this role. Also I was asked questions in relation to financial modeling experience
Few weeks later on May 4, 2022 I got scheduled the interview with the management, 1v1 with 30mins each, total 1 hour.
- Head of Acquisitions: asked further details on my latest employment and my motivation to join
- Head of Portfolio Management: asked a few situational questions including my strength and weakness.
After the interview, I was provided a case study material which I was requested to prepare the income statement, construct DCF model, and calculate IRR & multiples of an investment property.
Around 1.5 weeks later on May 16th, I was notified the feedback of the interview and got pointed out that my performance on case study is relatively weak with a rejection on my process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
See above - mainly your background, your experience in certain situation, your strength and weakness, your reason to leave previous companies, and your motivation to join. There were a few technical questions on financial modeling but I think the output heavily depends on the case study side.