Senior Associate, Structured Credit

We are presently recruiting for a Senior Associate, Structured Credit (SC) in our Capital Solutions group within the Credit Investment department, to be based in Toronto.  SC invests in sub-investment grade structured credit, debt capital solutions for financial institutions, life science & IP investments, and special situations in markets across the Americas. The Senior Associate will focus on our structured credit and financials portfolio. Typical investments include purchasing or financing whole loan portfolios, acquiring junior tranches or residuals in ABS securitizations, or providing strategic financing solutions to financial institutions in the Americas. 

Reporting to a senior team member of the Structured Credit team, you will play a key role in making and managing principal credit investments in North America, including investments in structured products and lending to financials companies. You will assist the team in evaluating investment opportunities, analyzing asset portfolios, developing sophisticated pricing and valuation models, conducting statistical research, developing investment recommendations, participating in the execution, monitoring, and management of investments.

Role-Specific Accountabilities:

• Research, analyze and evaluate investment opportunities across multiple sectors.
• Build complex dynamic financial models to analyze investment opportunities, asset portfolios and financing structures with the capability to test assumptions and sensitivities and run scenario analyses and simulations.
• Stratify and analyze large data sets to identify historical performance trends, detect correlations, identify key drivers and derive key assumptions for projection period.
• Assist in preparing presentation materials and presenting investment recommendations to Investment Committees.
• Interact with external parties’ key to the investment process, including management teams, loan sellers, legal counsel, auditors, banks and leverage providers, among others.
• Execute investment opportunities, including reviewing legal documentation, working with internal operations, developing transaction structures; and
• Ongoing monitoring of portfolio investments and reporting performance highlights to Strategic Credit and Investment Committees.