Vice President, Asset Backed Finance

Join to apply for the Vice President, Asset Backed Finance role at Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. Oaktree is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, with $209 billion in assets under management as of June 2025. The firm emphasizes an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investments in credit, real estate, and equity. The firm has over 1450 employees and offices in 25 cities worldwide. Oaktree is committed to cultivating a culture that encourages collaboration, intellectual stimulation, training and career development, diversity and inclusion and support to our communities through philanthropy.

Scope And Responsibilities

• Oaktree seeks an experienced ABF investor to participate in all phases of the private ABF investment process in Europe and to serve as a subject matter expert in a number of ABF verticals and competencies.
• The individual will be responsible for the following:
• Gain a deep understanding of Oaktree’s various funds and accounts available for ABF investments, including the constraints imposed by fund investment guidelines, regulatory capital considerations, regulators and Oaktree’s internal policies and procedures.
• Network and build relationships with investment professionals in Oaktree’s London office while working closely with ABF colleagues in Los Angeles and New York.
• Lead calls and meetings, both virtual and in-person, with asset originators, borrowers, sellers and their respective advisors, exposing key risks and opportunities, taking careful notes.
• Supervise, train and assist more junior ABF analysts as they collect, evaluate, organize and summarize the initial information which accompanies an ABF opportunity such as teasers, pitch decks, meetings or emails.
• Source ABF investment opportunities which fit the targeted risk-return parameters of Oaktree’s ABF strategy.
• Follow up on introductions and inquiries of potential relevance to the ABF strategy in Europe.
• Lead diligence, negotiation of terms and documentation, building models and preparing investment memoranda for consideration by the ABF investment committee.
• Supervise and contribute to the monitoring, surveillance and valuation of existing investments.
• Partner with various Oaktree colleagues to arrange financing or issue securitizations.
• Present information about investments, both actual and considered, to partners such as clients, prospects, financing providers and co-investors.
• Contribute to the evaluation of traded European ABS opportunities.

Experience Required

• 6+ years’ experience originating, negotiating, analyzing and structuring private asset backed investments for an investment manager, specialty lender or investment bank, across multiple collateral types.
• Command of fixed income fundamentals and deep understanding of the risks, mitigants and attributes of various contractual asset types.
• Experience supervising more junior analysts.
• Facility with Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong experience reviewing financial agreements, which govern asset backed investments, for relevant business points and to find answers to specific questions.
• Experience executing private asset backed investments preferred, but not required.

Personal attributes

• Clever, curious, resourceful, enjoys solving problems.
• Driven, productive, responsible.
• Focused on consistency, avoiding bad outcomes and long-term results for clients, Oaktree and the Oaktree ABF strategy.
• Team oriented, high integrity, friendly, empathetic, outgoing.
• Professional, sophisticated communicator in a variety of formats.
• Effective teacher.

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree from a top university with a record of academic excellence.

Contact and Equal Opportunity

Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. is an equal opportunity employer. Oaktree is committed to diversity and to equal opportunity employment. This policy applies to hiring, placement, internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, recruitment advertising, transfers, demotions, layoffs, terminations, recruitment advertising, rates of pay and other forms of compensation and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment.