• Independently manage and corporate private cash flow lending of bespoke commercial credit investments across structured credit, asset-based lending, and specialty finance.
• Monitor portfolio performance, identify emerging risks, and recommend proactive credit actions or mitigants.
• Interface extensively with Front Office, Finance, Legal, and Operations teams throughout the investment lifecycle.
• Perform ongoing monitoring, including borrower financial analysis, cash-flow modelling, collateral analysis, and covenant assessment.
• Prepare presentations and dashboards covering transaction structure, credit risk assessment, downside scenarios, financial projections, and investment recommendations.
• Responsible for periodic valuation support and performance analysis of assigned investments, in coordination with Valuations and Accounting teams.
• Support amendments, waivers, refinancing, and restructurings as needed in collaboration with other teams.
• Taking ownership of complicated assets and complex analyses, while overseeing and training team members and support analysts.
Requirements
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment with the ability to think broadly about the business, incorporating continual improvement of processes and procedures with a goal of excellence, while focusing on accuracy and efficiency.
• 7-8 years of experience in commercial credit, structured finance, private credit, or asset-based lending, with meaningful exposure to complex deal structures.
• Strong fundamental credit skills, including financial statement analysis, cash-flow modelling, collateral valuation, and covenant analysis.
• Solid understanding of loan documentation and credit agreements, with experience working on deal execution, amendments, and credit documentation.
• Exposure to diverse asset classes and industries preferred.
• Ability to clearly communicate credit views through well-structured memoranda and presentations.
Strong judgements, high ethical standards, collaborative mindset, and willingness to take ownership of outcomes.
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What We Do
Arena Investors is an institutional asset manager that provides creative solutions for those seeking capital in special situations. Arena brings decades of experience, a track record of comfort with complexity, the ability to deliver within time constraints, and the flexibility to engage in transactions that cannot be addressed by banks and other conventional financial institutions. Arena’s mandate is global, and also unconstrained in terms of asset class and industry.
