Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships & Securitization

Sallie Mae; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Bonus incentives

Generous PTO

401k with employer match

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision

Flexible hybrid working arrangements

Tuition assistance and education-

Job summary

Sallie Mae is seeking a Senior role within Strategic Partnerships to advance loan funding, securitization, and private credit initiatives. You will apply cash-flow modeling, structured finance analysis, and market knowledge to support transaction execution and reporting.

You’ll translate complex economics into clear insights for senior leadership, manage investor reporting and board materials, and collaborate across Finance, Legal, Compliance, and Treasury in a fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

• Experience with capital markets / structured finance transactions.
• Experience with cash flow analysis and key drivers including defaults, prepayments, and recoveries as well as experience with cash flow modeling for structured transactions.
• Comfort working with financial systems and data used for forecasting, reporting, and performance management.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the structuring and execution of loan sale and partnership transactions, ensuring compliance with market, rating agency, and regulatory requirements. This includes preparing and reviewing cash flow, waterfall, and scenario analyses, collateral stratifications, rating agency materials, and transaction documentation to ensure accuracy and alignment with securitization structures.
• Monitor ongoing investor and partner reporting for strategic partnerships, including monthly performance and projected cash flow reporting, and support preparation of quarterly board and senior management materials.
• Develop and apply sound assumptions, structure complex funding transactions, and interpret model results to support funding decisions, capital and liquidity considerations, and ad hoc analyses for senior leadership.
• Develop, manage, and grow relationships with strategic loan partners, private credit investors, banks, and other capital providers. Participate in day-to-day engagement, performance discussions, and ongoing coordination, and partnering with senior leaders on commercial strategy and key decisions.
• Own the Strategic Partnerships operating cadence by preparing executive-ready materials for periodic updates.
• Manage forecasting, budgeting inputs, variance analysis, and business case development for Strategic Partnerships loan volumes, fee revenue, and funding economics.
• Partner cross-functionally with Credit Risk, Corporate Finance, Legal, Compliance, Audit, Accounting, Treasury, Capital Markets, Product, Operations, and Technology to ensure funding and partnership requirements are reflected in business design, operating processes, reporting capabilities, and control readiness.
• Support planning and readiness for funding infrastructure and securitization processes, by developing business case materials, operating requirements, reporting frameworks, and scalable processes.

Skills

Capital markets

Structured finance

Cash flow modeling

Forecasting & reporting data systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Accounting or Mathematics

Tools

Workday

Adaptive

Anaplan

Job description

Sallie Mae is seeking a Senior role within Strategic Partnerships to advance loan funding, securitization, and private credit initiatives. You will apply cash-flow modeling, structured finance analysis, and market knowledge to support transaction execution and reporting.

You’ll translate complex economics into clear insights for senior leadership, manage investor reporting and board materials, and collaborate across Finance, Legal, Compliance, and Treasury in a fast-paced setting.