Vice President, Asset Based Credit - Fortress Careers

New York, NY

About Fortress

Fortress Investment Group LLC is a leading, highly diversified global investment manager with approximately $51 billion of assets under management as of March 31, 2025. Founded in 1998, Fortress manages assets on behalf of over 2,000+ institutional clients and private investors worldwide across a range of credit and real estate, private equity, and permanent capital investment strategies.

About the Position

Fortress is seeking a Vice President to join its Asset-Based Credit Group within the Credit Funds business. The Asset-Based Credit Group focuses on a broad mandate of investment opportunities across the capital structure in the specialty finance sector including consumer finance, commercial finance and other contractual cash flowing receivable assets. The team generally concentrates on lending against and acquiring assets originated by companies across these sectors. The investment model emphasizes deep industry and asset class specific research along with substantial data analysis as a backdrop to formulating opinions on attractive transactions and deal structures.

The Vice President will join our New York office (in-person) and will be involved in all aspects of the investment process including financial modeling, structuring, legal documentation, due diligence and portfolio management. Experience with asset-based financing, structured credit and securitization required.

The Specialty Finance Vice President will:

• Assist in the sourcing and origination of new investment opportunities.

• Work with internal due diligence team and third parties to coordinate all corporate and asset-level due diligence processes.

• Lead the underwriting, structuring, legal documentation negotiation and closing process for new investment opportunities. The Vice President will help manage both internal and external workflows to facilitate successful transaction closings.

• Perform financial modeling and asset performance analysis to provide structural recommendations and projected investment returns.

• Lead the development of investment committee memos and supporting analysis.

• Assist in asset management and monitoring of existing portfolio investments.

The ideal candidate will have:

• A bachelor's degree in finance, economics, mathematics, computer science or a related field is required.

• Minimum of 4-6 years of experience with asset-based transactions.

• A background in securitization banking, asset-based finance, asset backed securities portfolio management or asset-based lending.

• Strong familiarity with securitization structures and the ability to analyze a specialty finance company and its assets.

• Sophisticated financial modeling and analytical capabilities using standard tools (e.g. Excel). Strong proficiency with Excel is critical for success in the role. Database and programming skills are a plus.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Self-motivated and driven with ability to work in a collegial, demanding, and dynamic environment.

The base salary range for this position is expected to be between $0 and $0.

The base salary range proposed for this role has been set forth to comply with local law, but salary is only one element of the total compensation for this role. The base salary range suggested above does not include compensation elements such as bonuses, overtime and deferred cash (each of which are applicable in certain roles), benefits, perquisites, and company contributions to employee 401(k) accounts. Such other pay components often result in total compensation materially exceeding base salary for a particular role. Total compensation as well as base salary for a role depend in part upon individual performance, years of service, experience, geographic considerations, the performance and the needs of particular business units, company performance, and general market conditions.