Investments Associate

About Kayne Anderson

Kayne Anderson Real Estate is a leading real estate investment firm, managing approximately $21 billion in assets across opportunistic equity, core equity, and real estate debt, with sector expertise in medical office, seniors housing, off-campus student housing, multifamily housing, self-storage, and light industrial. Kayne Anderson Real Estate is part of Kayne Anderson, an over $41 billion alternative investment management firm with more than 41 years of experience in the real estate, credit, infrastructure, and energy sectors.

With more than 130 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. (As of April 30, 2026)

About the Role

Kayne Anderson Real Estate is looking to recruit an Associate level investment professional to work within the acquisitions and investment management team in underwriting, structuring, and modeling prospective acquisitions, developments, asset management, and dispositions. The role will work on assignments across all the firm's verticals. The Associate will be exposed to a high volume of underwritings and transactions and will be required to come into the position with a strong real estate underwriting skill set.

The high volume of underwriting and transactions will provide an exceptional opportunity to learn and expand capabilities quickly. The most successful candidate will be a strong self-starter, have passion for their work, work tactfully to integrate themselves into the overall group, and will always be looking for an opportunity to learn from the team while actively progressing their assignments.

The position will afford the successful candidate the opportunity to learn through direct exposure to multiple asset classes and collaboration with all the business functions involved in a vertically integrated real estate operation while developing a broad range of financial modeling, analytical, and presentation skills. Furthermore, the Associate will work directly with the senior members of each vertical and interact with partners and outside parties.

Responsibilities

• Perform underwriting and financial modeling for acquisitions, developments, asset management, and dispositions, including discounted cash flows, monthly operating projections, joint venture structures and waterfalls, multi-layer financing, sensitivity analyses, and modification of existing models to accommodate unique deal-by-deal requirements
• Research market data and other resources to support underwriting assumptions
• Prepare Investment Committee Memorandums
• Manage due diligence process, including third party reports, market studies, site visits, etc.
• Coordinate and facilitate the effective closing of a transaction by communicating with partners, maintaining internal checklists, tracking outstanding issues, and assisting other internal departments (including legal, capital markets, and construction)
• Support verticals with refinancing, disposition, and recapitalization efforts
• Engage, with support of Directors/Managing Directors, with broker community to understand climate of specific verticals & track sales data
• Compile, analyze, and develop an interpretation on the status of real estate markets across the country. This includes a detailed analysis of competitive properties, sales valuations, supply and demand fundamentals, and demographics

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Real Estate, Economics or similar business-related field, or equivalent experience/education preferred
• 3-5 years related financial experience with exceptional analytical skills and a strong understanding of financial concepts
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• High proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and other MS Office programs
• Prior experience or willingness to learn Argus and 3rd party research databases such as Axiometrics, CoStar, RCA, Capital IQ, and Green Street Advisors
• Masters Degree in Real Estate or Finance preferred

This position will be based in the firm's Boca Raton, Florida office.

Benefits

• 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