Asset Origination Associate, Structuring

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COMPANY OVERVIEW

Global Atlantic Financial Group is a leader in the U.S. life insurance and annuity industry, serving the needs of individuals and institutions. Global Atlantic is a majority-owned subsidiary of KKR, a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management across multiple strategies and capital markets solutions.

Global Atlantic is looking for a diverse team of talented individuals who reinforce our culture of collaboration and innovation. We are dedicated to the career development of our people because we know they are critical to our long-term success. Join our team and come grow with us. 

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The Associate will join the New York based Global Atlantic Investment Office which manages the firm’s investment account. The Associate will join the Asset Origination team, with a focus on structuring, which focuses on cross-asset strategic deal origination and execution.

Responsibilities include:

• Work with portfolio managers to develop structures to optimize for capital, accounting and tax on assets Global Atlantic acquires
• Understand and reverse engineer public market transactions to understand capitalization for potential investments
• Support relationships with rating agencies to structure, rate, and capitalize origination assets
• Have a working understanding of rating agency criteria across asset classes to develop new models for potential investments
• Develop and manage models for internal and rating agency analysis
• Manage documentation and operational processes for GA on-balance sheet securitizations

Qualifications:

• 3+ years relevant work experience in structured products structuring with strong quantitative and modeling skills
• Familiarity across structured finance asset classes, including CLOs, consumer ABS, commercial ABS and real estate
• Experience with Intex Calc and Dealmaker strongly preferred
• An understanding of structured finance legal documentation
• Flexible individuals who are both creative and commercial, and are comfortable working on multiple transactions at once across a variety of assets
• Energetic, inquisitive and a high initiative to take on projects
• Organized with high attention to detail
• Bachelor’s degree

Applicants must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.

Various jurisdictions have passed pay transparency laws that require companies provide salary ranges for any positions for which they are accepting applications. Global Atlantic has offices in Atlanta, Batesville, Bermuda, Boston, Des Moines, Hartford, Indianapolis, and New York City. The base salary range posted below is inclusive of the lowest cost of living geography to the highest in which we have a Global Atlantic office. 

Global Atlantic’s base salary range is determined through an analysis of similar positions in the external labor market. Base pay is just one component of Global Atlantic’s total compensation package for employees and at times we hire outside the boundaries of the salary range. Other rewards may include annual cash bonuses, long-term incentives (equity), generous benefits (including immediate vesting on employee contributions to a 401(k), as well as a company match on your contributions), and sales incentives.  Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Compensation for our more senior positions have a larger component of short-term cash bonus and long-term incentives.  The base salary range for this role is $140,000 to $160,000.

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TOTAL REWARDS STATEMENT  

Global Atlantic’s total rewards package is reflective of our corporate values, particularly diversity, excellence and innovation, with a focus on inclusion, pay equity, and flexibility. We are proud to support your personal and professional growth and well-being through programs such as educational assistance, virtual physical therapy, remote/onsite fitness reimbursement, a medical second opinion program, pet in