Principal, Counterparty Credit Risk Lead (AASP)

About this role

Position Overview An indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Apollo Management Holdings, AASP Risk Management, manages the securitized products and structured finance assets sourced and serviced by ATLAS SP Partners while serving as their sole risk manager.

ATLAS SP’s lending business provides financing across the following business segments: • Residential Real Estate

• Commercial Real Estate

• Consumer & Commercial (C&C) including Hard Assets, Financial Assets and General Consumer

• Private Credit Finance

ATLAS SP’s financing lines, or facilities, are secured by financial assets and benefit from various risk-mitigating features and structural credit enhancements, including overcollateralization, covenants, asset concentration limits, collateral quality tests, and revaluation triggers. Each facility is subject to a comprehensive underwriting process that includes evaluation of the manager, assessment of underlying asset performance risk, stress testing, and structural analysis.

Despite being “asset-backed,” ATLAS SP’s facilities are exposed to meaningful performance risk associated with the servicer/sponsor/borrower/originator, (referred to here as, the “counterparty”). As a result, counterparty analysis is a critical component of the underwriting process. Furthermore, ATLAS SP is increasingly entering into transactions with heightened fundamental credit exposure to the counterparty, particularly in cases where there is direct correlation between counterparty performance and collateral performance.

Position Overview AASP Risk is seeking a Director/Principal to join its team. This role sits within the firm’s independent Risk function and is responsible for evaluating and overseeing direct and indirect corporate credit exposures across ATLAS SP transactions.

The Director/Principal will form independent credit views, assess transactions against the firm’s risk appetite, and provide clear risk recommendations to senior risk leadership and Investment Committee highlighting key risks and relevant mitigants. The role requires disciplined fundamental analysis, sound risk judgment, and confidence and communication skills to provide constructive challenge to business leaders and product risk leaders. This is a second-line risk role with responsibility for both new transaction review and ongoing portfolio oversight.

Primary Responsibilities • Conduct independent fundamental credit analysis of corporate credit exposures across non-bank lending sectors including agency and non-agency residential, commercial real estate, consumer, aviation and other transportation, shipping, auto, commercial/SME, and alternative investment platforms

• Build and review detailed financial models, including base, downside, and stress scenarios

• Evaluate leverage sustainability, liquidity, refinancing risk, and covenant frameworks

• Assess structural mitigants and transaction features in alignment with risk parameters

• Prepare clear, decision-oriented risk memoranda for senior risk leadership and Investment Committee

• Provide constructive challenge to deal teams where risk-return alignment is insufficient

• Monitor exposures after onboarding, identifying emerging credit deterioration or structural weaknesses

• Contribute to portfolio-level risk analysis and thematic credit insights

• Hire, train and manage a team of experienced but more junior credit professionals to support the mandate described above, taking ownership for the team’s work product

• Experience managing and training offshore resources

Qualifications & Experience • 7-10 years of experience in corporate credit underwriting or credit risk within: banking corporate credit / leveraged finance risk, direct lending / private credit risk functions, corporate credit investing platforms, principal credit risk functions within financial institutions This person will be managing others.

• Deep experience underwriting corporate borrowers, including full three-statement cash flow modeling, leverage and coverage analysis, liquidity forecasting, capital structure and recovery analysis, and covenant evaluation and documentation review

• Ability to communicate with senior members of both risk and business, drawing on experience making clear, defensible credit recommendations with a demonstrated ability to form and defend credit recommendations in approval forums (e.g., investment committee)

• Strong risk discipline and independent credit judgment

• Clear written communication and executive presence in committee settings

• Ability to independently assess borrower risk and articulate clear recommendations

• Comfort operating within a second-line risk framework while partnering effectively with business stakeholders

• Executive presence and ability to communicate complex risk assessments succinctly to various audiences

• Experience evaluating transactions where capital is held on balance sheet or within long-duration vehicles

• Ability to balance competing priorities including monitoring a diverse existing portfolio as well as a deep new deal pipeline.

Firm Overview 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 credit to private 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. As of September 30th, 2025, Apollo

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