About Kayne Anderson:
Kayne Anderson Real Estate is a leading real estate investment firm, managing approximately $17 billion in assets (as of 1/1/2025) across opportunistic equity, core equity, and real estate debt, with sector expertise in medical office, seniors housing, off-campus student housing, multifamily housing, and self-storage. Kayne Anderson Real Estate is part of Kayne Anderson, a $37 billion alternative investment management firm with more than 40 years of experience in the real estate, credit, infrastructure, and energy sectors.
With more than 110 professionals, Kayne Anderson Real Estate has consistently demonstrated its ability to bring more to an opportunity than equity capital, enhancing a project’s overall performance and quality by incorporating best practices and effective alternatives in the design, construction, documentation, financing, and operation of investments. The firm’s entrepreneurial spirit and resilient culture, combined with a reputation for quick response, firm commitment, and timely execution, has solidified Kayne Anderson Real Estate’s reputation and resulted in strong relationships with developers, owners, operators, financing sources, and other intermediaries.
Position Overview:
We are seeking a Senior Associate/VP to join the Capital Markets team at Kayne Anderson Real Estate. The Capital Markets team is responsible for sourcing, structuring, negotiating, underwriting and closing all loans (credit facilities, loan syndications, and securitizations). The Capital Markets team works on all sectors across all equity funds and collaborates with all groups across the firm (acquisitions, asset management, legal, construction, accounting, investor relations, etc.).
General Position Responsibilities:
- Assist sourcing, hedging, and securing debt across all asset classes (primarily medical office, student housing, multifamily, industrial and seniors housing)
- Primary responsibilities include overseeing transaction execution from start to finish, collaborating with the deal team and our partners, conducting financial underwriting oversight, and managing lender relationships
- Assist in preparing offering memorandums, reviewing and analyzing term sheets, providing diligence materials to lenders, and negotiating loan documents for closings, modifications, and extensions
- Contribute to maintaining the real estate owned schedules for all funds and proactively track upcoming loan maturities, potential covenant defaults, and expiring hedges
- Assist various teams across the KA Real Estate platform with continued development and implementation of new processes and automated efficiencies
- Acquire a deep knowledge of the US loan financing markets and develop and refine financing strategies for our existing portfolio and pipeline
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5-10+ years of financial analysis, excel modeling, & closing experience. Experience in commercial real estate, with a focus on capital markets preferred
- Willingness to travel and work long hours in a demanding, self-motivated, highly focused, and collaborative team environment
- Effective communication, strong numerical/quantitative skills, integrity, professionalism, attention to detail, and adaptability are essential to the role
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible spending accounts (dependent care, healthcare, limited purpose FSA)
- Accident and Critical Illness insurance
- Long Term Disability insurance
- Competitive 401(k) benefits
- Pet healthcare savings program
- Member’s Only Healthcare - healthcare navigation
- WellHub - corporate wellness platform
- $10,000 lifetime reimbursement for family forming services (e.g. IVF, adoption, surrogacy)
- Rocket Lawyer legal benefits
- Reimbursement of professional society memberships and exam fees
- Up to $10,000 matching annually for contributions to qualified non-for-profit organizations
- Parental leave
Employment with the company is contingent on the applicant being able to provide proof of eligibility to work in the United States at the time of hire.
Equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
