Senior Investment Associate

A Brief Overview

The Senior Investment Associate is a core member of Avanta Residential, an Invesco Real Estate and Hunt Companies real estate development and investment platform. The Associate is responsible for supporting all aspects of project execution across a broad range of real estate investment opportunities. This role encompasses advanced financial modeling, underwriting, valuation analysis, and market research for acquisitions, mezzanine financing, preferred equity investments, development projects, joint ventures, and co-GP structures.

The Senior Associate leverages experience with Build-to-Rent (BTR) and multifamily assets, operating platforms, portfolio recapitalizations, and capital markets activity, while actively applying AI-driven tools and workflows to enhance investment analysis and decision-making capabilities.

What you will do

* Financial Analysis & Modeling

* Builds and maintains comprehensive, complex financial models for potential high-priority or sophisticated acquisitions, development projects, redevelopments, joint ventures, and other investment structures, including mezzanine financing, preferred equity, and co-GP arrangements.

* Conducts advanced financial modeling to assist in underwriting and due diligence phases of potential new developments, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other opportunities.

* Performs research on rental income, operating expenses, ad valorem taxes, sales and rental comparables, demographics, and other factors necessary to evaluate land and/or existing assets.

* Updates and maintains advanced financial models and databases using current contracts, bids, and available market information.

* Performs advanced ad-hoc financial analysis to support asset management and senior executive decision-making.

* Market Research & Intelligence

* Conducts market research across a broad range of asset classes, including Single-Family Rental (SFR), Build-to-Rent (BTR), multifamily, land, and mixed-use assets across diverse geographic markets and investment structures.

* Prepares and effectively analyzes market data and research for all submarkets and micro-markets within the portfolio.

* Sources, structures, and synthesizes market intelligence using AI research tools and data platforms; conducts AI-assisted market and submarket research, including prompting and evaluating outputs.

* Performs market research travel as needed.

* Investment Execution & Asset Management

* Contributes in the preparation of investment committee memoranda describing potential new investments and participates in Investment Committee presentations.

* Drafts presentations and investment committee memoranda for lenders, management, and investors; prepares capital raising presentations and supports investor relations requests.

* Works with Development Managers and other team members to support LOI submittals and project structuring.

* Supports the creation of annual business plans for owned and managed investments and monitors the operating performance of owned investments.

* Reviews analyses submitted by consultants and team members.

* AI Tools & Innovation

* Applies AI-powered tools and platforms to streamline financial modeling, market research, and investment reporting workflows; stays current with emerging technologies relevant to real estate investment.

* Identifies, pilots, and helps institutionalize AI-enabled workflows that improve the speed, quality, consistency, and scalability of underwriting, research, reporting, and knowledge management.

* Acts as a power user and informal coach for AI tools, establishes best practices for prompting and output review, and promotes thoughtful adoption of emerging capabilities across the team.

Qualifications

* Bachelor's Degree Finance, Real Estate, Business Administration, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline; ideally from a top-tier school. Required

* Master's Degree Master of Business Administration (MBA) or Master of Science in Real Estate (MSRE) preferred Preferred

* 4-7 years of work experience in real estate, real estate development, infrastructure, investment banking, lending, investment management, or commercial real estate brokerage, or a…