ABF Investment Team
Associate / Vice President, Asset-Based Finance Investments
A leading alternative investment manager is seeking an Associate or Vice President to join its Asset-Based Finance (ABF) investment team in New York. The successful candidate will help evaluate, underwrite, and manage investments across a broad range of private and structured credit opportunities, with a focus on asset-backed and cash flow-oriented investments.
Responsibilities
- Analyze and execute investment opportunities across consumer, commercial, and residential credit sectors.
- Perform detailed collateral, cash flow, and structural analysis on both private and public asset-backed transactions.
- Build and maintain financial models to evaluate risk-adjusted returns, downside scenarios, and portfolio performance.
- Conduct diligence on originators, issuers, borrowers, and servicing platforms.
- Monitor existing portfolio investments and identify relative value opportunities across the ABF universe.
- Work closely with senior investment professionals on transaction execution, portfolio construction, and investment strategy.
- Prepare investment memoranda and present recommendations to internal investment committees.
Qualifications
- 3-8+ years of experience in private ABF, structured products, specialty finance, structured credit, securitization, or related investing/lending roles.
- Strong understanding of consumer, commercial, and/or residential credit assets, including areas such as mortgage, unsecured consumer, auto, equipment finance, small business lending, receivables, or other specialty finance sectors.
- Experience underwriting asset-backed transactions, warehouse facilities, forward flow agreements, securitizations, or other structured credit investments.
- Strong financial modeling, analytical, and quantitative skills.
- Ability to evaluate collateral performance, cash flow dynamics, and transaction structures.
- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree and/or CFA designation is a plus.
Preferred Backgrounds
Candidates may come from:
- Private credit funds or ABF-focused asset managers
- Structured products investment teams
- Specialty finance platforms
- Investment banking securitization or structured finance groups
- Ratings agencies covering ABS, RMBS, or specialty finance
- Insurance asset management or credit investment platforms
This is an opportunity to join a growing investment team with exposure across the full breadth of the asset-based finance market and play a meaningful role in sourcing, underwriting, and managing investments across a diverse portfolio of structured credit assets.
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