Octane® is revolutionizing recreational purchases by delivering a seamless, end-to-end digital buying experience. We connect people with their passions by combining cutting-edge technology and innovative risk strategies to make lifestyle purchases - like powersports vehicles, RVs, and OPE - fast, easy, and accessible.
Octane adds value throughout the customer journey: inspiring enthusiasts with our editorial brands, including Cycle World® and UTV Driver®, instantly prequalifying consumers for financing online, routing customers to dealerships for an easy closing, and supporting customers throughout their loan with superior loan servicing.
Founded in 2014, we’re a company with 550+ employees and over 30 OEM and 4,000 dealer partners.
We are seeking a Senior Vice President, Capital Markets to join the Capital Markets team at Octane. You will be reporting to the CFO and working closely with the rest of the financial team.
Responsibilities
- Oversee and build out the ABS and warehouse lending programs; Manage rating agency relationships and dialogue
- Maintain existing facilities through renewals and amendments; proactively monitor asset performance and origination trends for optimal facility terms
- Establish new facilities as needed to maintain sufficient liquidity through cycles
- Build and maintain strong relationships with institutional investors to manage new investor pipeline or to develop new loan funding program
- Ensure ongoing compliance with covenants and regulatory requirements; establish processes and controls to effectively manage and mitigate risk
- Work closely with internal and external stakeholders (loan contributors, underwriter(s), internal/external counsel(s), trustees, rating agencies, 3rd party vendors, Investor Services, Accounting, FP&A, etc, as appropriate) for flawless issuance and execution of transactions
- Manage, build and coach the Capital Markets team
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree from top institution, MBA or Advanced Degree preferred
- Minimum 10-15 years of relevant experience in capital markets, investment banking, financial services, or management consulting with a proven track record in building and managing teams
- Excel, SQL, Python a plus
- Strong analytical skills and data- and quantitatively-oriented
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven track record in building strong collaborative relationships with internal and external partners
- Lead day to day project and team activities to meet project goals and timelines, owning projects from problem definition to final recommendation and implementation
- Ability to build and cultivate cross-functional relationships, both internally and externally
- Strong leadership skills with a team-oriented and collaborative approach to work
- Excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities; ability to communicate with simplicity, clarity, and confidence to executives, senior management and external business partners
- Strong background in managing a team of technical accounting/financial reporting professionals
Compensation
The role described above offers a base salary of $220,000 to $290,000. Your offer will be based on the alignment of your qualifications with the requirements of the job, location and internal equity. In addition to the above-mentioned salary, Total Rewards include a stock option package, and benefits as outlined below.
Benefits
- Robust Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Generous Parental Leave
- Up to 5 weeks time off (self-managed)
- Retirement Plan (401k) with company match!
- Educational Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement up to $3K/year
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Short Term / Long Term Disability
- Robust Ancillary benefits including accident insurance, hospital insurance, etc.
- Wellhub (Gympass) wellness benefit
- Powersports Safety Benefit
Octane Lending is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status with respect to recruitment, hiring, promotion and other terms and conditions of employment.
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Our Story
Octane was founded in 2014 to make financing powersports fast and easy.
Octane offers instant financing to fuel your lifestyle. We’re passionate about fast and fair lending, so we built the Octane Platform to enable instant financing for as many people as possible. And because we’re quicker and simpler than other lending platforms, we’re growing fast. Octane reaches millions of enthusiasts through editorial brands like Cycle World and UTV Driver and helps consumers buy their favorite products by prequalifying them on dealer and OEM websites. Join us in our mission to connect people with their passion.
Instant Finance Offers
Octane Prequal expands markets by providing personalized, real rates and payments. We give dealers and consumers tools to compare and understand what they can afford, even without perfect credit.
Soft-Pull, Impact-Free Credit Technology
We feel strongly about not impacting potential customers’ credit scores, so we built a technology that lets shoppers browse vehicles and rates without the damaging impact of hard credit pulls.
Robust Digital Tooling for Dealers
Our Dealer Platform provides flexibility and financing options for dealers. Octane enables serving more customers faster with an instant, fully digital experience, shaving hours off deal times. Octane increases sales and customer satisfaction.
Why Work With Us
We’re a diverse team of innovators determined to give our customers the best possible experience. Information is shared transparently, enabling cross-functional collaboration. We’re a performance based culture where accomplishments are both celebrated and rewarded, always looking for new talent to help us develop our industry-leading products.
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