Capital Markets Manager

Location: Remote

Department: Capital Markets

About Honor (the premium financing division of Ascend)

Honor Capital is the premium financing division of Ascend, the only complete financial operations automation platform purpose-built for insurance - providing accounting automation, payments, and premium financing in one place. Premium finance is a short-duration, self-liquidating asset class secured by the unearned premium of the underlying policy, representing roughly $70 billion in annual originations across the U.S. property and casualty market and growing at a ~15% CAGR. Honor Capital is the fourth-largest premium finance provider in the United States and authorized in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. To learn more, visit www.honor.capital or www.useascend.com.

About the Role

We are looking for a detail-oriented, analytically driven Capital Markets Manager to manage capital markets for Honor Capital. This role will play a central part in managing the day-to-day operations of Honor Capitals securitizations and other funding facilities, combining strong modeling skills with hands-on data management to keep the portfolio running smoothly. Youll balance rigorous quantitative work with cross-functional collaboration — owning key bank and rating agency relationships, managing legal deliverables on funding transactions, and driving portfolio analytics (forecasting, utilization, performance, and reporting) alongside the design and execution of new funding facilities. You will be an employee of Honor Capital, an Ascend company.

This role has the option to be onsite in San Francisco, CA, Fort Lauderdale, Florida or remote (EST hours).

Responsibilities

Objective #1: In your first 30 days, you will:

• Dive deep into Honor Capitals securitizations and other funding facilities, transaction structures, and current reporting processes and tools
• Build foundational relationships with internal partners across Finance, Legal, and Capital Markets
• Begin developing fluency in our waterfall models, data sets, and funding protocols

Objective #2: In your first 60 days, you will:

• Own key aspects of portfolio management including reporting, running diagnostics, and data cleansing across Honor Capitals securitizations and other funding facilities
• Develop a strong understanding of the firms funding protocols and procedures, executing them accurately and on schedule
• Begin building direct relationships with bank partners and rating agencies alongside senior team members
• Support the design, development, and execution of securitization, warehouse, and corporate funding facilities alongside senior team members

Objective #3: In your first 90 days, and beyond, you will:

• Fully own day-to-day management of Honor Capitals securitizations and other funding facilities, controlling all aspects of reporting, diagnostics, and data cleansing
• Own primary relationships with bank partners and rating agencies, representing Honor Capital in ongoing dialogue on facility performance, terms, and covenant compliance
• Manage legal aspects of funding facilities, including coordinating with outside counsel on transaction documentation, amendments, and compliance requirements
• Lead portfolio analytics — forecasting, utilization, performance, and reporting — to give leadership a real-time view into portfolio health
• Actively participate in special projects including interest rate risk management initiatives and portfolio analysis and forecasting
• Play a key role in driving proactive portfolio insights that leadership can act on across underwriting, operations, and collections
• Help refine scalable portfolio management practices and modeling approaches that enable Honor Capital to operate a best-in-class funding platform

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in capital markets, structured finance, or a closely related field (e.g. asset-backed securities, warehouse facilities, securitizations, or credit facility management)
• A four-year college degree, with majors in engineering, math, finance, physics, or economics preferred

Required Skills

• Experience owning or managing relationships with bank partners and/or rating agencies
• Proficiency with structured finance/credit analytics platforms and programming/scripting languages (e.g. Python, SQL) preferred
• Experience in financial cash flow modeling for securitization transactions in Excel
• Comfort managing legal documentation and coordinating with outside counsel on funding transactions
• Strong portfolio analytics skills, including forecasting, utilization tracking, and performance reporting
• Expert proficiency with Microsoft Excel
• Exposure to legal documents such as offering memorandums, offering circulars, indentures, and private placement memorandums is a plus
• Ability to work independently and multitask in a fast-paced environment to meet client deadlines
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with high attention to detail
• Strong written and oral communication skills

Preferred Skills

• Some relevant working experience in the following areas is a plus: mortgage and asset-backed securities, accounting firms, corporate trust, mortgage banking, loan servicing, fixed income investments, or rating agencies

Compensation: $125,000-$175,000