Position Overview
Apollo’s Atlas platform is a leading asset-backed finance business operating across a broad range of complex financing structures and counterparty relationships. The Risk function within Atlas is responsible for identifying and managing risks across the deal lifecycle, including reputational, regulatory, governance, and credit risk considerations. The team partners closely with deal teams, legal, compliance, and senior risk leadership to ensure that transactions are thoroughly vetted and approved through appropriate governance frameworks.
The Role:
This is a full-time role with primary ownership of the reputational risk review process for the Atlas platform, with scope expected to expand over time into broader ABF. The individual will conduct thorough reputational due diligence on transactions and counterparties, and produce conclusive, well-reasoned recommendations to senior management and investment/risk committees based on a fulsome risks and mitigants analysis.
The role requires a strong working knowledge of compliance frameworks (KYC, sanctions, conflicts) and sufficient understanding of financing structures to apply findings to specific transaction contexts. This is not a legal role, though candidates from a legal or compliance background are equally welcome. Reporting line is directly into AASP Risk with an additional reporting line into Atlas Legal; line manager will depend on level of hire and experience.
Primary Responsibilities:
Conduct legal, regulatory, and financial due diligence to assess reputational risk across a variety of transactions and business relationships, with a primary focus on asset-backed finance.
Analyze reputational risks including corruption, fraud, litigation, regulatory issues, sanctions, governance concerns, conflicts of interest, and high-risk lines of business.
Identify, assess, and synthesize risk-relevant information from multiple open-source and proprietary sources; instruct and liaise with investigative consultants and evaluate their findings.
Apply a global perspective to reputational risk, with sensitivity to local market practices, regulatory environments, and cultural considerations that may impact risk outcomes.
Prepare clear, concise, and well-structured risk and mitigants memoranda for senior management, risk approval committees, new product approval committees, and other transaction or conflict committees.
Contribute to committee discussions by challenging assumptions, asking probing questions, and ensuring risks are fully vetted and understood before decisions are made.
Review and critically assess third-party due diligence reports; drive the due diligence process to address identified issues, coordinating closely with external counsel, in-house legal, and compliance.
Engage with internal stakeholders across deal teams, legal, compliance, and risk; escalate issues that merit further diligence or committee review.
Develop relevant industry and sub-sector expertise within asset-backed finance; proactively identify and anticipate emerging reputational risks.
Qualifications & Experience
8+ years of experience in legal, regulatory, compliance, or financial services.
Background at a top law firm (mid- to senior-level associate) and/or in-house at a bank or financial institution, with meaningful exposure to complex financial transactions; compliance candidates with a KYC/conflicts focus will also be considered.
Demonstrated experience supporting or participating in risk approval committees, conflict committees, new product approval committees, or similar governance forums.
Strong familiarity with financial services regulation and a range of debt finance and asset-backed finance transaction structures.
Proven ability to identify and analyze governance, sanctions, KYC, litigation, and regulatory flags in the context of specific transaction structures.
Experience challenging business decisions and risk perspectives in a constructive, credible manner; ability to ask tough, incisive questions and drill into key issues.
Expertise in, or meaningful exposure to fraud-related risks and investigations is highly desirable.
Proven ability to draft high-quality risk memoranda outlining risks, mitigants, and recommendations in a clear and structured way.
Strong analytical, research, and investigative skills, including experience leveraging open-source and proprietary information sources.
Global perspective with working knowledge of local market practices, regulatory regimes, and reputational risk considerations across key jurisdictions.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and engage senior stakeholders.
Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment while maintaining sound judgment and attention to detail.
Intellectual curiosity, high integrity, and sound judgment; collaborative and team-oriented, with the ability to work effectively across disciplines and seniority levels.
CPA, CFA, CAMS, or other relevant professional credentials are a plus but not required.
About Apollo:
Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes.
About AASP Management, LP (AASP):
AASP is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Apollo Management Holdings, LP. Currently, AASP manages asset-backed warehouse facilities and other securitized products and structured finance assets. Additionally, AASP serves as the sole risk manager for ATLAS SP Partners (described below) and all of Apollo’s Asset Backed Lending business.
About ATLAS SP:
ATLAS SP Partners is a global investment firm that seeks to provide stable funding and capital markets services to companies seeking innovative and bespoke structured credit and asset backed finance solutions. ATLAS SP is proud to build upon a legacy of excellence anchored in deep expertise and client service across the asset management landscape.
Their expert team and integrated platform help determine the best approach to optimize clients’ capital structures and achieve their goals working across a broad range of services within principal investing, financing, capital markets and portfolio solutions.
ATLAS SP’s integrated platform encompasses a holistic suite of capabilities, including asset/portfolio advisory solutions, warehouse/acquisition financing solutions, whole loan purchase/sale and securitization/distribution.
ATLAS SP works with specialty finance companies, REITs, financial sponsors, mortgage lenders, corporates and others to unlock value from their existing asset base, accessing capital that goes beyond traditional unsecured debt and equity. They specialize in advising clients on how to reach their strategic goals, from providing early-stage asset backed capital, constructing flexible aggregation warehouse facilities, establishing securitization programs to accessing bridge capital and acquisition financing solutions.
The Company works with clients throughout all stages of the growth lifecycle — from early stage private to mature public companies — to access flexible capital through a variety of structures and capabilities, including asset/portfolio advisory, warehouse/acquisition financing solutions, whole loan purchase/sale and securitization/distribution.
ATLAS SP was created out of Credit Suisse’s Securitized Products Group, a top provider of credit solutions to lenders. Now as a standalone securitized credit origination platform, ATLAS SP continues to benefit from the team’s leadership, experience and operational strength to serve client needs across the full ABS financing spectrum.
ATLAS SP is backed by a diverse set of institutional capital partners, including affiliates of Apollo, and other third-party financial institutions. These relationships can provide ATLAS SP with investment-grade capital partners and strategic benefits designed to enhance its financial and operational strength and to accelerate growth in client offerings.
Our Purpose & Core Values
Our clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be:
The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.
The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.
A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.
We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:
Outperform expectations
Challenge Convention
Champion Opportunity
Lead responsibly
Drive collaboration
As a One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.
Our Benefits
Apollo relies on its people to keep it a leader in alternative investment management, and the firm’s benefit programs are crafted to offer meaningful coverage for both you and your family. Please reach out to your Human Capital Business Partner for more detailed information on specific benefits.
Pay Range
$300,000
Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates) is committed to championing opportunity.
The firm and its affiliates comply with applicable discrimination and equal opportunities legislation in all of its jurisdictions and do not discriminate in employment or recruitment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
The contents of the qualifications and experience section of this job description are a guideline only. If an applicant can otherwise demonstrate their suitability for the role they will be considered.
The base salary range for this position is listed above. This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus based on personal, team, and Firm performance. Compensation ranges are based on several factors including job function, level, and geographic location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed here.
