Director, Alternative Investments Credit

Overview

A growing financial services platform is seeking a senior credit professional to join its investment analytics team. This individual will evaluate the financial strength, portfolio characteristics, liquidity profile, and risk framework of alternative investment vehicles and financing structures across a broad range of asset classes.

Responsibilities

• Lead detailed credit and risk assessments of investment vehicles, financing arrangements, and portfolio-based structures.

• Analyze manager quality, investment strategy, portfolio composition, liquidity sources, leverage, and downside risk considerations.

• Conduct meetings with fund managers, investors, lenders, and other market participants to evaluate performance and risk management practices.

• Review financial statements, portfolio reporting, legal documentation, and transaction materials.

• Develop financial models and scenario analyses to evaluate portfolio behavior under various market and stress conditions.

• Prepare written analyses and present conclusions to senior decision-makers.

• Monitor existing exposures and identify material developments impacting credit performance.

• Track market trends across private capital, specialty finance, and alternative investment sectors.

• Partner with professionals across investment, risk, structured products, and capital markets teams.

• Mentor junior team members and contribute to analytical best practices.

• Support research initiatives and participate in industry events as a subject matter expert.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in credit analysis, alternative investments, structured products, fund finance, specialty finance, or private markets.

• Strong understanding of how investment vehicles raise capital, deploy capital, manage liquidity, and generate returns.

• Experience evaluating portfolio risk, leverage, cash flow generation, and downside protection.

• Ability to analyze complex legal and financial structures.

• Strong financial modeling and Excel capabilities.

• Experience working with private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, asset-based finance, or other alternative asset classes.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex findings to senior stakeholders.

• Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.

• CFA designation or progress toward the charter is a plus.

Target Candidate Backgrounds

• Fund Finance

• Private Credit

• Asset Based Finance

• Specialty Finance

• Structured Credit

• Investment Risk

• Alternative Asset Management

• Investment Banking

• Credit Research

• Institutional Investing