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Head of US Debt Capital Markets

Over the last 20 years, Ares' success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.

Job Description

Position Summary

Seeking to hire a leader within the Debt Capital Markets team, with a particular focus on executing corporate and property level financing transactions, managing lending relationships, and hedging activities.

Essential Duties

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Expertise in all stages of financing transactions, with primary responsibilities shown below

  • Oversee and/or implement fund specific structuring, negotiation and closing of property level secured loans and/or corporate unsecured loans, including responsibility for negotiating loan documentation with lenders
  • Manage and report in-place and projected financial covenants for secured and/or corporate financings, including recourse obligations for internal and external purposes
  • Manage existing lender relationships and drive formation of new ones
  • Source financing for fund investments, both directly and through mortgage brokers
  • Think strategically about cross function opportunities with lending and debt broker relationships
  • Track secured and unsecured debt markets, implement existing debt strategies while seeking to develop new ones, when applicable
  • Develop and implement hedging strategies including execution of swaps and caps, manage hedging implications from an accounting and finance perspective and ongoing regulatory compliance and ISDA documentation
  • Oversee implementation of loan abstracts and tracking for newly closed loans and updates to quarterly financing summaries
  • Periodically update debt underwriting assumptions to be used for acquisition underwriting
  • Track ancillary business for primary lending relationships and recommend partnership allocations where appropriate
  • Conduct capital market research by analyzing comparable company financial reports, analyst research, economic reports, and general real estate research
  • Partner with accounting and portfolio management teams on forecasting, treasury management, certain corporate modeling activities, including periodic reports
  • Evaluate short term cash investment alternatives, when applicable
  • Oversee loan draw requests and line of credit
  • borrowings/repayments

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • A Bachelors degree (in finance or accounting is preferred) and minimum of 10 years of applicable work experience and extensive experience reviewing and negotiating real estate related loan documents is required.
  • Prior experience in the following areas also preferred cash management, liquidity planning and control, management of interest, procurement of finance and financial investments, banking and agency ratings, and corporate finance.
  • Excellent written and communication skills required.
  • The incumbent must be a proactive, good listener, collaborative problem-solver, self-motivated and team-oriented individual.
  • Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word required Argus proficiency a plus, but not required.
  • Demonstrated leadership capabilities required.
  • Willingness and ability to travel required.
  • Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information required. High ethical standards required.

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Compensation

The anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below. Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance-based bonus. Note, the range takes into account a broad spectrum of qualifications, including, but not limited to, years of relevant work experience, education, and other relevant qualifications specific to the role.

The firm also offers robust Benefits offerings. Ares U.S. Core Benefits include Comprehensive Medical/Rx, Dental and Vision plans 401(k) program 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 plan for parking and transit.

Ares offers a number of additional benefits including access to a world-class medical advisory team, a mental health app that includes coaching, therapy and psychiatry, a mindfulness and wellbeing app, financial wellness benefit that includes access to a financial advisor, new parent leave, reproductive and adoption assistance, emergency backup care, matching gift program, education sponsorship program, and much more.

There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.