Associate, Private Credit Investments

April Housing

$70K — $95K *
Real Estate & Construction
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS/BA in Real Estate, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or STEM-related fields
  • 1-2+ years in real estate, credit, or investment banking roles
  • Experience in real estate acquisitions, credit, M&A, or leveraged finance
  • Familiarity with commercial real estate or structured finance is a plus
  • Strong analytical, financial modeling, and credit analysis skills

Responsibilities

  • Perform comprehensive financial analysis to evaluate investment opportunities
  • Underwrite and analyze loan collateral for various property types
  • Conduct due diligence and assist throughout the investment process
  • Assess deal and loan-level risk ratings and monitor asset performance
  • Structure and analyze complex credit transactions like loan portfolio acquisitions
  • Prepare materials for investment committee and asset reviews
  • Present investment findings and insights to senior leadership
  • Monitor industry trends and macroeconomic factors impacting portfolios
  • Innovate and improve existing team processes
  • Limited travel required (5-10%)

Benefits

  • Exposure to complex transactions and portfolio management
  • Close collaboration with senior stakeholders and team members
  • Opportunity for creative thinking and process improvement
  • Dynamic, fast-paced working environment
Full Job Description

Role Purpose:

As an Associate, you will play a key role in evaluating and executing private credit and real estate investment opportunities. This position involves financial modeling, credit analysis, and supporting the full deal lifecycle—from due diligence through closing and ongoing portfolio monitoring. You will collaborate closely with senior team members, contribute to investment decision-making, and help prepare materials and insights for leadership. This is a highly analytical, fast-paced role offering strong exposure to complex transactions, portfolio management, and senior stakeholders.

What you will do:

  • Perform comprehensive financial analysis, including valuation and cash flow modeling, to assess investment prospects.

  • Underwrite and perform credit analysis on loan collateral across all major property types within private credit investments, loan pools and the corporate credit landscape

  • Working with the team to perform due diligence on prospective investments and participating in all aspects of the investment process from origination to deal closing. Reviewing credit agreements and loan structures in coordination with broader deal-level diligence workstreams.

  • Determine deal and loan-level risk ratings, assist in identifying risk assets across the portfolio to monitor performance and provide periodic asset management updates. Create and edit financial models to determine base and bear case commercial real estate (CRE) asset valuations and perform sensitivity analysis.

  • Assist with the structuring and analysis of structured credit transactions, including loan portfolio acquisitions, NAV facilities, private placements, SRTs, and more.

  • Prepare investment committee and quarterly asset review presentation materials.

  • Present investments to senior leadership on a regular basis.

  • Track issuer/industry trends and macroeconomic events which could impact portfolio holdings.

  • Think creatively about ways to improve the team’s existing processes.

  • Will travel 5-10% domestically.

What you should have:

  • Strong curiosity and desire to learn and think creatively.

  • College (BS/BA) degree in Real Estate, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or STEM-related subjects.

  • 1–2+ years of experience in a real estate, credit, or investment banking role, including real estate acquisitions, real estate credit, M&A or advisory investment banking, debt capital markets, leveraged finance, or other credit-focused roles. Familiarity with commercial real estate or structured finance is a plus. Comfortable working in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment.

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