About Sixth Street Direct Lending
Sixth Street Direct Lending creates flexible, fully committed investments in large-cap and middle-market businesses. We focus on directly originated thematic investments with dedicated teams across both North America and Europe. Our ability to solve for complexity enables us to deliver certainty and provide long-term capital solutions to the companies and management teams with which we partner.
The Role
Sixth Street is seeking a talented portfolio management Associate whose primary focus will be covering a portfolio of existing investments, largely focused on middle market corporate loans. The candidate will be responsible for the ongoing monitoring of the credit investment and will be expected to present to the investment committee on a quarterly basis regarding financial performance, key business trends, and near-term watchouts. This is an opportunity to be a member of a growing team supporting a disciplined asset management business within a best-in-class opportunistic investing platform. This position is based in Austin.
Core Responsibilities
- Management of individual assets within the SLX portfolio with a focus on loan asset management and dispositions
- Perform financial analysis to identify key trends and near-term watchouts and maintain ongoing dialogue with key stakeholders at the portfolio companies (typically CFO)
- Drive preparation of monthly updates, quarterly portfolio reviews, valuation materials, and other ad- hoc internal reporting requests
- Work together with the underwriting team on potential refinancing, upsize, or other amendment opportunities at the asset or company level
- Interact with SLX management and other Sixth Street platforms on a quarterly basis to review ongoing performance, key business trends and near-term watchouts and be comfortable making recommendations based on various analysis
What We Value
- Eagerness to work hard in a team-oriented, performance-based environment
- Strong attention to detail and able to focus on multiple demands and deliverables
- Commercial and results orientation
- Team orientation and influencing skills
- High trust and integrity
- Strategic / entrepreneurial mindset
- Strong combination of organizational and interpersonal/communication skills
Preferred
- 2+ years of professional experience
- Prior experience working for a valuation firm, accounting firm, or in junior credit role at a private credit firm or bank
- Knowledge and experience with credit agreements and related documentation is preferred, not required
- Experience in performing asset management for middle market loans is preferred, not required
- Expert or in-depth knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
About Sixth Street
Founded in 2009, Sixth Street is a global investment firm with over $75 billion in assets under management and committed capital. Sixth Street uses its long-term flexible capital, data-enabled capabilities, and One Team culture to develop themes and offer solutions to companies across all stages of growth. Our firm is designed for cross-platform collaboration at scale: we build businesses, invest for growth, acquire assets, provide direct financing, identify value in public markets, purchase royalty streams, and regularly develop first-of-their-kind structures to meet the strategic objectives of management teams.
We do all this globally and as one unified team of investment and control-side professionals working on behalf of our institutional investors and their beneficiaries around the world.
We believe our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is a competitive advantage. Everyone on our team contributes their perspectives and expertise to help us solve complex challenges and get to the right answer. At Sixth Street, the best idea wins.
From how we conduct business to how we engage in our communities, everything we do at Sixth Street is rooted in our commitment to our core value:
- Cross-Platform: We think across the business and avoid silos at all costs.
- Responsibility: We are accountable for our business, our team, and our communities.
- Ethical: We are ethical and direct in word and deed.
- Action: We initiate, execute, and deliver results.
- Teamwork: We are better together.
- Entrepreneurship: We seek to innovate both inside and outside our business.
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Sixth Street is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, genetic history, marital status, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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