Director, Reputational Risk & Compliance (AASP)

About the role

The Risk function within Atlas is responsible for identifying and managing risks across the deal lifecycle, including reputational, regulatory, governance, and credit risk considerations. The team partners closely with deal teams, legal, compliance, and senior risk leadership to ensure that transactions are thoroughly vetted and approved through appropriate governance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Conduct legal, regulatory, and financial due diligence to assess reputational risk across a variety of transactions and business relationships, with a primary focus on asset-backed finance.
• Analyze reputational risks including corruption, fraud, litigation, regulatory issues, sanctions, governance concerns, conflicts of interest, and high-risk lines of business.
• Identify, assess, and synthesize risk-relevant information from multiple open-source and proprietary sources; instruct and liaise with investigative consultants and evaluate their findings.
• Apply a global perspective to reputational risk, with sensitivity to local market practices, regulatory environments, and cultural considerations that may impact risk outcomes.
• Prepare clear, concise, and well-structured risk and mitigants memoranda for senior management, risk approval committees, new product approval committees, and other transaction or conflict committees.
• Contribute to committee discussions by challenging assumptions, asking probing questions, and ensuring risks are fully vetted and understood before decisions are made.
• Review and critically assess third-party due diligence reports; drive the due diligence process to address identified issues, coordinating closely with external counsel, in-house legal, and compliance.
• Engage with internal stakeholders across deal teams, legal, compliance, and risk; escalate issues that merit further diligence or committee review.
• Develop relevant industry and sub-sector expertise within asset-backed finance; proactively identify and anticipate emerging reputational risks.

Qualifications & Experience

• 8+ years of experience in legal, regulatory, compliance, or financial services.
• Background at a top law firm (mid- to senior-level associate) and/or in-house at a bank or financial institution, with meaningful exposure to complex financial transactions; compliance candidates with a KYC/conflicts focus will also be considered.
• Demonstrated experience supporting or participating in risk approval committees, conflict committees, new product approval committees, or similar governance forums.
• Strong familiarity with financial services regulation and a range of debt finance and asset-backed finance transaction structures.
• Proven ability to identify and analyze governance, sanctions, KYC, litigation, and regulatory flags in the context of specific transaction structures.
• Experience challenging business decisions and risk perspectives in a constructive, credible manner; ability to ask tough, incisive questions and drill into key issues.
• Expertise in, or meaningful exposure to fraud-related risks and investigations is highly desirable.
• Proven ability to draft high-quality risk memoranda outlining risks, mitigants, and recommendations in a clear and structured way.
• Strong analytical, research, and investigative skills, including experience leveraging open-source and proprietary information sources.
• Global perspective with working knowledge of local market practices, regulatory regimes, and reputational risk considerations across key jurisdictions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and engage senior stakeholders.
• Able to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment while maintaining sound judgment and attention to detail.
• Intellectual curiosity, high integrity, and sound judgment; collaborative and team-oriented, with the ability to work effectively across disciplines and seniority levels.
• CPA, CFA, CAMS, or other relevant professional credentials are a plus but not required.

About Apollo

Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes.

About AASP Management, LP (AASP)

AASP is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Apollo Management Holdings, LP. Currently, AASP manages asset-backed warehouse facilities and other securitized products and structured finance assets. Additionally, AASP serves as the sole risk manager for ATLAS SP Partners (described below) and all of Apollo’s Asset Backed Lending business.

About ATLAS SP

ATLAS SP Partners is a global investment firm that seeks to provide stable funding and capital markets services to companies seeking innovative and bespoke structured credit and asset backed finance solutions. ATLAS SP is proud to build upon a legacy of excellence anchored in deep expertise and client service across the asset management landscape. Their expert team and integrated platform help determine the best approach to optimize clients’ capital structures and achieve their goals working across a broad range of services within principal investing, financing, capital markets and portfolio solutions. ATLAS SP’s integrated platform encompasses a holistic suite of capabilities, including asset/portfolio advisory solutions, warehouse/acquisition financing solutions, whole loan purchase/sale and securitization/distribution. ATLAS SP works with specialty finance companies, REITs, financial sponsors, mortgage lenders, corporates and others to unlock value from their existing asset base, accessing capital that goes beyond traditional unsecured debt and equity. They specialize in advising clients on how to reach their strategic goals, from providing early-stage asset backed capital, constructing flexible aggregation warehouse facilities, establishing securitization programs to accessing bridge capital and acquisition financing solutions. The Company works with clients throughout all stages of the growth lifecycle — from early stage private to mature public companies — to access flexible capital through a variety of structures and capabilities, including asset/portfolio advisory, warehouse/acquisition financing solutions, whole loan purchase/sale and securitization/distribution. ATLAS SP was created out of Credit Suisse’s Securitized Products Group, a top provider of credit solutions to lenders. Now as a standalone securitized credit origination platform, ATLAS SP continues to benefit from the team’s leadership, experience and operational strength to serve client needs across the full ABS financing spectrum. ATLAS SP is backed by a diverse set of institutional capital partners, including affiliates of Apollo, and other third-party financial institutions. These relationships can provide ATLAS SP with investment-grade capital partners and strategic benefits designed to enhance its financial and operational strength and to accelerate growth in client offerings.

Purpose & Core Values

We are committed to helping our clients build stronger businesses and to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference. We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who: Outperform expectations Challenge Convention Champion Opportunity Lead responsibly Drive collaboration

Benefits

Apollo relies on its people to keep it a leader in alternative investment management, and the firm’s benefit programs are crafted to offer meaningful coverage for both you and your family. Please reach out to your Human Capital Business Partner for more detailed information on specific benefits.

Pay Range

$300,000