Associate, Real Estate Debt, Capital Solutions

Responsibilities

• Assist with marketing, structuring, negotiating, and closing loans, including secured and unsecured loans used to finance both equity and debt investments.
• Prepare financing request packages, including updating Argus and property underwriting for potential lenders.
• Summarize and analyze financing quotes received.
• Work with Title, Attorneys and Lenders to complete required due diligence to close loans.
• Partner with Due Diligence team to work through surveys, zoning and environmental reports.
• Prepare loan abstracts for newly closed loans and update quarterly financing summary.
• Assist in implementing and monitoring interest rate hedges including swaps and caps, reviewing hedging implications from an accounting and finance perspective and maintaining ongoing regulatory compliance and ISDA documentation.
• Calculate, monitor, and report in‑place and projected financial covenants for corporate and/or secured financings, including recourse obligations – for internal and external purposes.
• Ongoing tracking of secured and unsecured debt markets, debt strategies, debt tracking, etc.
• Periodically update debt capital markets dashboard to be used for acquisition underwriting.
• Track ancillary business and share of wallet for primary broker and lending relationships.
• Assist in conducting capital market research by analyzing comparable company financial reports, analyst research, economic reports, and general real estate research.
• Other ad hoc analyses and reporting, both for internal and external purposes.
• Partner with Portfolio Management and F&A teams on forecasting, treasury management and certain corporate modeling activities, including near term sources and uses and periodic reports to management regarding cash activities.
• Manage loan draw requests and line of credit borrowings/repayments for unsecured and/or secured debt based on short and medium term cash needs.
• Evaluate cash management investment strategies based on both internal and external risk factors.

• Bachelor's degree (finance or accounting preferred).
• 3 to 5 years of applicable work experience within real estate debt capital markets; preferably within origination, underwriting, legal documentation, loan closing/structuring, securitization, rating agency methodology.
• Proficiency in Argus, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word required;
  Argus certification preferred.
• Excellent written and communication skills required.
• Must be driven, proactive, good listener, collaborative problem‑solver, self‑motivated and a team‑oriented individual.
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities required.
• Proficiency in AI Tools and using AI Tools for automation purposes.
• Willingness and ability to travel required.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information required.
• High ethical standards required.

Base salary range: $100,000 – $130,000. Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance‑based bonus.

Ares U.S. Core Benefits include Comprehensive Medical/Rx, Dental and Vision plans; 401(k) with company match;
Flexible Savings Accounts (FSA);
Healthcare Savings Accounts (HSA) with company contribution;
Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance;
Long‑Term Disability (LTD) and Short‑Term Disability (STD) insurance;
Employee Assistance Program (EAP); and Commuter Benefits for parking and transit.

Additional benefits include access to a medical advisory team, mental health app with coaching, therapy and psychiatry, mindfulness and wellbeing app, financial wellness benefit with an advisor, new parent leave, reproductive and adoption assistance, emergency backup care, matching gift program, education sponsorship, and more.

Ares Management LLC (together with its related operating and administrative subsidiaries, “Ares Management”) is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, ethnicity, creed, sex, age, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, status regarding public assistance, military or veteran status, domestic violence victim status, gender identity and expression, transgender status, genetic information, status as unemployed, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Ares Management will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.