Structured Finance - Asset-Backed Securities, Director, New Asset - New York

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Structured Finance – Director, Asset-Backed Securities

Fitch Ratings is seeking an emerging assets professional to join the Asset-Backed Securities Group in our New York and Chicago office.

Fitch Ratings is adding an experienced and highly motivated professional to the Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) team as a Director. The position is within the North American ABS team, with a primary focus on transactions collateralized by novel asset types—including GPU computing infrastructure financing and intellectual property (IP) monetization structures. This role requires deep familiarity with unique asset financing and the ability to pioneer structured finance rating approaches where limited historical performance data exists.

This is a leadership position responsible for a wide range of initiatives including: sector analytical leadership for emerging asset classes, direct responsibility for analytical activities including rating and monitoring a wide range of asset based financing and regular direct engagement with bankers and issuers operating at the frontier of securitization.

Successful candidates will demonstrate strong senior leadership in a structured finance credit role, combined with relevant experience in structured credit and/or project credit markets. Candidates must clearly demonstrate the ability to analyze novel collateral types and apply macro and sector-specific trends. In this leadership role, strong communication skills (verbal and written) are essential, given the broad internal and external responsibilities to articulate and disseminate credit views on asset types that require significant market education.

What We Offer:

• A rewarding leadership experience to expand your managerial talents and lead a team at the forefront of structured finance innovation.
• An opportunity to be a market-defining leader at the top rating agency in ABS, directly shaping the analytical framework for asset classes that are redefining the securitization landscape.
• Ability to grow the depth and breadth of your presence in emerging-asset ABS through active external participation with investors, issuers, legal counsel, and technology stakeholders.
• A dynamic and fluid work environment expanding the breadth and depth of your involvement in the debt capital markets, with direct influence on criteria development and strategic sector decisions.

We'll Count on You To:

• Lead deal teams to analyze critical credit, legal, and structural elements across emerging asset based finance sectors;
• Contribute to dynamic rating workflows by leading rating analysis on a growing portfolio of emerging-asset ABS transactions and participating externally with investors, issuers, and bankers to build market confidence in Fitch's approach;
• Deploy and implement various credit tools and cash flow models to form analytical views and recommendations on a wide array of collateral and financing types, usage-based revenue models and more operation business models;
• Lead the development and refinement of ratings criteria for emerging-asset ABS, including forming recommendations to bolster analysis, calibrate stresses, and make strategic sector decisions where historical performance benchmarks are limited or nonexistent;
• Manage and mentor analysts, strategically plan workflows, and drive progress on multiple parallel projects across a rapidly evolving deal pipeline.