Associate (Miami FL)

ACG Professionals, Inc.; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ACG Professionals, Inc. is seeking an Associate to join its leading retail capital markets platform in Miami.

The role targets candidates with 3+ years in investment banking, investment sales, principal investing, brokerage, or retail real estate operations, offering exposure across underwriting, financial analysis, market research, and transaction execution. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to interface with executives.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in real estate investment banking, investment sales, principal investing, brokerage, or retail real estate operations.
• Strong analytical and quantitative abilities with attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to interface with top-level executives.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain real estate financial models including DCF and sensitivity analyses.
• Create offering memoranda, pitch books, and client presentations for investment sales and capital advisory.
• Support transaction execution from engagement to closing across retail assets.
• Analyze properties and portfolios using lease economics, market trends, and valuation metrics.
• Coordinate with clients, lenders, and consultants to ensure timely deliverables.

Skills

Real estate investment banking

Financial modeling

Client communication

Tools

ARGUS

Excel

Job description

Job Summary:

One of ACG’s clientsis seeking an Associate to join the firm’s leading retail capital markets platforms. The client is seeking somebody with at least 3 years of experience in investment banking, investment sales, principal investing, brokerage, or retail real estate. The successful candidate will join a team that advises institutional and private clients on investment sales, capital raising, valuation, and strategic advisory assignments across a diverse range of retail assets throughout North America. The role offers direct exposure to every stage of the transaction lifecycle, including underwriting, financial analysis, market research, property tours, preparation of offering memoranda and pitch materials, investor outreach, transaction execution, client meetings, and closings.

Retail remains one of the most dynamic sectors in commercial real estate, requiring professionals who understand both the underlying real estate fundamentals and the capital markets perspective through which investors make decisions. We are seeking someone with strong analytical ability, intellectual curiosity, exceptional attention to detail, and a genuine passion for retail real estate and capital markets. This is an opportunity to grow alongside one of the industry’s most active retail advisory teams in a collaborative, high-energy environment.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain comprehensive real estate financial models, including discounted cash flow valuations, leveraged return analyses, and sensitivity scenarios, to support underwriting, valuation, and investment recommendations.
• Create offering memoranda, pitch books, proposals, strategic review presentations, and other marketing materials for client presentations and transaction execution.
• Support the execution of investment sales transactions from initial engagement through closing, coordinating multiple assignments while ensuring deadlines and deliverables are met on schedule.
• Evaluate individual properties and portfolios through analysis of financial performance, lease economics, comparable sales, market trends, and other key valuation metrics.
• Analyze and organize due diligence materials—including rent rolls, operating statements, lease abstracts, third-party reports, and market research to produce clear, actionable analyses.
• Work closely with internal teams and external parties, including clients, investors, lenders, legal counsel, and third-party consultants, to facilitate successful transaction execution.
• Maintain internal databases of comparable transactions, capital markets activity, and market intelligence to support underwriting, pricing, client advisory, and business development initiatives.
• Perform additional duties as required.

Qualifications/Skills and Knowledge Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in real estate investment banking, investment sales, principal investing, brokerage, or retail real estate operations.
• Ability to be proactive, anticipate demands and accomplish tasks with minimal direction and oversight.
• Exceptional organizational, interpersonal, quantitative, writing and communication skills; able to interface with clients including their top-level executives.
• Proficiency in ARGUS and Excel.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Competitive salary and bonus commensurate with experience