2-Year Associate, ABF Asset Management Full Time

Carlyle Global Credit is seeking a highly motivated Associate to join the ABF (Asset-Backed Finance) Asset Management team, with a dedicated focus on analytics and reporting. This individual will play a critical role in maintaining and analyzing data that supports collateral analytics and portfolio surveillance across Carlyle’s ABF strategies.

The Associate will work closely with the Investment Teams to ensure the platform’s data is accurate, timely, and actionable. This role offers significant exposure to ABS and structured credit investing.

Responsibilities

Data & Platform Management

• Maintain and enhance core ABF datasets (deal-, asset-, and facility-level).
• Partner with Technology to improve data integrations, automation, and analytics tools.
• Support the evolution of models and infrastructure for risk, liquidity, and ALM monitoring.

Cash Flow Modeling & Analytics

• Build and maintain asset- and liability-level cash flow models (waterfalls, triggers, eligibility, credit enhancement, reinvestment assumptions).
• Produce scenario, sensitivity, and stress analyses to assess market, structural, and performance impacts.
• Analyze asset and facility performance trends (delinquencies, prepayments, recoveries, collateral migration).
• Support valuation processes and ongoing portfolio surveillance.

Portfolio Construction, Leverage & Liquidity

• Partner with PM/Group Head on portfolio construction, sizing, diversification, and yield optimization within investment guidelines.
• Develop short-, medium-, and long-term liquidity forecasts across funds and financing structures.
• Monitor triggers, coverage tests, borrowing limits, advance rates, and structural headroom.
• Evaluate the impact of originations, repayments, and market dynamics on leverage, liquidity, and capital efficiency.

Financing & Structured Execution

• Support execution and ongoing management of warehouse facilities, subscription lines, NAV/hybrid facilities, rated feeders, and ABS issuances.
• Prepare borrowing base calculations, covenant compliance, collateral reporting, and lender packages.
• Maintain facility and ABS models incorporating rating agency methodologies and structural tests.
• Coordinate with lenders, trustees, agents, and internal stakeholders to ensure compliance and optimization.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Reporting

• Partner with Investment, Fund Management, IR, Accounting, and Operations teams to align data, modeling, liquidity planning, and reporting.
• Support underwriting, asset onboarding, diligence, and forward funding analysis.
• Produce recurring reporting packages and provide analytics for investor communications and portfolio reviews.

Qualifications

Requirements

• 2–5 years of experience in ABS, CLOs, structured credit, private credit, financial analytics, Portfolio & Liability
• Management, or financial operations roles within asset management, banking, or structured finance platforms.
• Experience with loan-level datasets, securitization or warehouse reporting, or structured finance analytics.
• Strong organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple time-sensitive deliverables in a dynamic, cross-functional environment.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to translate technical data concepts into clear insights for non-technical stakeholders.

Source:  The Carlyle Group Career Page