Asset Backed Securities (ABS) Structurer

At Citi Markets, we win together. In a rapidly changing world, our shared vision gives us the clarity, agility and global perspectives we need to shape the future. That's why collaboration plays a central role in how we deliver for clients, develop our people, and grow our business. Our operation is uniquely global. Our client list is remarkably varied. Our product range is incredibly broad.

Within Strategic Equity Solutions business, we are at the forefront of innovation in private capital markets, delivering bespoke capital raising and liquidity solutions to the world's most sophisticated alternative asset managers and institutional investors.

As a Director-level ABS Structurer, you will play a pivotal role in originating, structuring, and executing asset backed securities such as Collateralised Fund Obligations (CFOs) and Rated Note Feeder (RNF) structures for Tier-1 private equity, private credit, and alternative asset managers globally. This is a high-impact, revenue-generating position at the intersection of structured credit, fund finance, and capital markets. You will work directly with C-suite executives at leading sponsors to design innovative capital raising and financing solutions that unlock liquidity from illiquid portfolios while creating investment-grade rated debt tranches for institutional investors.

Our open, supportive culture empowers us to share clients, ideas, and success, creating new possibilities with every conversation and redefining the future of private capital markets.

• Design and execute complex ABS transactions from origination through closing, including structuring multi-tiered capital stacks (Senior, Mezzanine, and Equity tranches), building sophisticated cash flow waterfall models that account for unpredictable LP distributions, J-curve dynamics, and capital call schedules, and optimizing credit enhancement mechanisms including overcollateralization tests, reserve accounts, and liquidity facilities
• Drive rating agency engagement and regulatory advisory, managing the end-to-end rating process with KBRA, Fitch, Moody's, S&P and Morningstar DBRS, preparing comprehensive collateral data tapes and rating presentations, negotiating eligibility criteria and concentration limits, and ensuring structures achieve optimal capital treatment under Solvency II, NAIC, and other regulatory frameworks
• Originate and pitch solutions to alternative asset managers, developing tailored proposals that address capital raising and liquidity needs, presenting complex financial engineering concepts to GP management teams, and building long‑term strategic relationships with key decision‑makers
• Contribute to the placement by engaging with debt and equity buyers, presenting the opportunity and addressing questions and investor diligence requirements
• Manage legal negotiations and transaction execution, collaborating with internal and external counsel to draft offering memoranda, indentures, credit agreements, SPV formation documents and negotiating transfer restrictions on LP interests and bankruptcy-remote structures
• Develop innovative product solutions that address evolving market needs in private capital liquidity, staying ahead of regulatory changes and market trends, and contributing to the strategic development of Citi's Strategic Equity Solutions platform
• Mentor and develop junior team members, providing technical guidance on complex modelling and structuring challenges, fostering a collaborative team environment, and contributing to knowledge‑sharing initiatives across the broader Markets organization

• This is a Director level role, therefore we require extensive structured finance experience in Asset-Backed Securitization, Structured Credit, CLO Structuring, NAV Lending, Fund Finance, including a proven track record of successfully executing complex securitizations or bespoke fund-level financing transactions with demonstrable revenue generation
• Deep technical and quantitative expertise including mastery of advanced financial modelling (Excel, VBA, Python, or specialized structured finance software such as Intex), ability to build…