Sr. Associate, Asset-Based Financing

Come join one of America’s fastest-growing insurance companies. Since 1848, National Life Group has aimed to keep our promises, providing families with stability in good times and in bad. Throughout that history, we have provided peace of mind to those families as they plan their futures.

Our mission extends beyond the insurance and annuities policies that we offer. We strive to make the world a better place through our grants from our charitable foundation, paid volunteer time for our employees, environmentally sustainable and healthy workplaces, and events that promote the work of nonprofits in our own backyard.

We foster a collaborative environment with opportunities for growth and encourage our associates to live our values: Do good. Be good. Make good.

NLG Capital, the investment management company of NLG, manages approximately $40+ billion in AUM. Our purpose is simple – to allow NLG to keep its promises. How we do this – an obsessive focus on delivering investment results. We drive results through a rigorous but collaborative investment process, and we hold ourselves to the highest of standards, both as investors and teammates. While our process is based on rigor, our culture is based on our guiding principles: Meritocracy, Uncompromising Transparency, Intellectual Honesty, Performance Driven Learning, Relentless Pursuit of Excellence. These principles serve as the foundation of our team. They govern the way we conduct ourselves, how we interact with teammates and how we approach every investment decision. We act with the integrity and humility required to make the investment decision that is right for the firm, and ultimately our policyholders. Our culture has been deliberately built to foster curiosity and provide opportunities to learn and grow, both as people and investors. The flat and collaborative nature of our team promotes an atmosphere where the best ideas are continually expressed and rewarded. Our pursuit of excellence is unwavering.

Role Summary

The Sr. Associate, Asset-Based Financing plays a key role within the growing structured credit strategy of NLG Capital. This role will support senior members of the team on sourcing, analyzing, trading, structuring, and executing complex structured finance and asset-backed transactions.

The Sr. Associate, Asset-Based Financing will support the underwriting, ongoing monitoring, and investing of asset-backed finance transactions. Additionally, the candidate will serve as a key team member, helping to evaluate asset originators and collateral, while developing structural solutions appropriate for NLGs balance sheet.

Successful candidates will have relevant experience within investment banking, rating agencies, asset management firms, asset originators, or other intermediaries within structured finance. The Sr. Associate, Asset-Based Financing will have analyzed collateral and transactions across consumer finance, equipment lease/financing, residential solar, mortgages, and/or other asset backed sectors.

This position currently offers an onsite hybrid work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Support the team in sourcing, modeling, and analyzing private transactions across the asset-backed securities and loan markets
• Support the team in reviewing deal documentation, negotiating transaction terms, and structuring of forward flow agreements, warehouse financing, and term securitizations
• Coordinate with internal and external legal counsel, rating agencies, and industry experts to identify and execute on solutions appropriate for NLG
• Support ongoing portfolio and market monitoring, proactively identifying emerging risks and opportunities and recommending appropriate courses of action
• Perform timely surveillance of existing investments and maintain a clear system to communicate asset and market level performance across the investment team
• Support the research efforts for both traditional and esoteric securitized asset classes, including collateral and prepayment analysis, risk and default modelling, and cross sector relative value comparisons
• Collaborate with other members of the team to develop and implement sub-sector and security selection recommendations for securitized strategies
• Contribute to the development and distribution of asset class insights and reporting on portfolio and trading activity, aiding strategic decision making across the firm
• Monitor credit, prepayment, liquidity and market dynamics for risk management and balance sheet valuation exercises, including cashflow forecasting and other analytical exercises
• Provide key input to the fixed income team’s strategic and tactical asset allocation dialogue across fixed income sectors and portfolios

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in finance, economics, or a quantitative field
• 2+ years structured finance or whole loan experience spanning consumer finance, residential solar, equipment lease/financing, or other esoteric asset-based financing markets
• Deep understanding of structuring process and documentation provisions in complex structured transactions
• Experience with cash flow modeling and systems including Intex
• Demonstrated experience with deal structuring, negotiation, and documentation across flow agreements, warehouse, and/or securitization
• Must have broad strategic investment perspective and understanding
• Strong leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills. Focus on strategic talent management; experience mentoring, teaching and training staff
• Active student of the markets, with a passion for their work
• Able to articulate market conditions to a variety of audiences who may or may not have substantive investment knowledge

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree and/or CFA (optional, but seen favorably)
• Experience in a structuring, capital markets, rating agency, buy-side, or banking role strongly preferred
• Understanding of accounting implications and insurance general account investing preferred but not required

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Base Pay Range. The base pay range for this position is the range National Life reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position taking into account the wide variety of factors, including: prior experience and job-related knowledge; education, training and certificates; current business needs; and market factors. The final salary or hourly wages offered may be outside of this range based on other reasons and individual circumstances.

Additional Compensation and Benefits. The total compensation package for this position may also include a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. The successful candidate may also be eligible to participate in National Life’s discretionary annual incentive programs, subject to the rules governing such programs. If hired, the employee will be in an "at-will position" and National Life reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

National Life is accepting applications for this role on an ongoing basis and the role remains open until filled.

Salary Pay Range$193,375—$273,000 USD

National Life Group® is a trade name of National Life Insurance Company, Montpelier, VT – founded in 1848, Life Insurance Company of the Southwest, Addison, TX – chartered in 1955, and their affiliates. Each company of National Life Group is solely responsible for its own financial condition and contractual obligations. Life Insurance Company of the Southwest is not an authorized insurer in New York and does not conduct insurance business in New York. Equity Services, Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC, is a Broker/Dealer and Registered Investment Adviser affiliate of National Life Insurance Company. All other entities are independent of the companies of National Life Group.

Fortune 1000 status is based on the consolidated financial results of all National Life Group companies.

Social Media Policy

Site Disclosure and Privacy Policy

National Life Group

1 National Life Dr

Montpelier, VT 05604