Investments Team Lead

About ArborKnot

ArborKnot Capital Partners is an investment firm specializing in consumer debt portfolios across

Australian and European markets. Data is the core of how we operate: every portfolio we acquire is

priced, monitored, and optimized by a team that sits at the center of the deal. We are a small, senior

company where your work reaches the investment committee, not a backlog.

The role

You will lead the Investment Team: the analytical engine behind every transaction ArborKnot does.

The team owns deal analytics end to end, from sizing and pricing new portfolio opportunities through

underwriting analysis to evaluating how our books perform against expectations. This is a

commercially demanding role: you are the bridge between the analytics and the deal, a full peer to

portfolio managers and senior leadership in transaction conversations. You will lead a team of

analysts, set the quality bar for their work, and report directly to the VP Data.

What you'll own

▪ Deal analytics. Pricing analysis, underwriting support, and portfolio evaluation for every

transaction in the pipeline, delivered at deal speed.

▪ The team. Lead and develop a team of analysts. Own their output quality, their growth, and how

their work lands with stakeholders.

▪ Commercial partnership. Sit shoulder to shoulder with portfolio managers and the front desk.

Understand the deal logic, challenge assumptions, and bring the analytical view into commercial

decisions as they are made, not after.

▪ Performance insight. Own the view of how acquired portfolios perform against the assumptions

we priced them on, and feed that learning back into the next transaction.

▪ Ways of working. We are an AI-native function: analyst workflows lean on modern AI tooling, and

you will shape how the team uses it to move faster without losing rigor.

What you bring

▪ Background in investments: credit funds, private equity, investment banking, corporate finance, or

debt purchasing

▪ Strong financial and analytical modelling skills; you are fluent in building and interrogating a deal

model

▪ Genuine business acumen: you understand how a transaction makes money and can hold your

own in a commercial conversation with senior stakeholders

▪ Experience leading or mentoring analysts, with a high bar for quality

▪ Ownership mentality: you close loops without being chased

▪ Fluent English (our leadership and counterparties are international)

Nice to have

▪ Consumer credit, NPL, or receivables experience

▪ SQL or Python for working with data directly

▪ Exposure to Australian or European credit markets

▪ Experience presenting to investment committees or boards