Senior Valuation Specialist - Private Credit & CLOs

Harvest Investments, Ltd.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid Time Off

Disability insurance

Paid holidays

401k with employer contribution

Remote work environment

Generally, promotion within firm

Job summary

Harvest Valuations LLC in Burr Ridge, IL seeks a Senior Valuation Specialist to develop and maintain complex valuation models for distressed debt, private credit, and structured products.

You will incorporate market inputs, perform risk-adjusted discount rates, and prepare audit-ready documentation for US GAAP and IFRS, while mentoring junior staff.

This full-time role offers strong compensation and a collaborative, deadline-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, economics, mathematics, engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• 5+ years of experience valuing financial instruments for a CPA firm, valuation firm, investment fund, or financial institution.
• Demonstrated expertise building complex valuation models, including DCF, market‑multiple, option‑pricing, and structured‑product waterfalls.
• Experience valuing private credit or specialty‑finance exposures such as senior, mezzanine, and second‑lien instruments.
• Familiarity with structured‑product valuation across ABS, CLOs, RMBS, and CMBS.
• Experience using valuation platforms such as Bloomberg, Capital IQ, INTEXCalc, Trepp, Yield Book, or comparable tools.
• Strong understanding of fair‑value measurement frameworks, including ASC 820 and IFRS 13.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey complex valuation concepts clearly and professionally to internal teams and clients.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain valuation models for distressed debt, private equity, preferred equity, convertibles, structured products (including CLO equity classes), and other complex financial instruments, incorporating waterfall, coverage tests, and tranche‑level allocations.
• Build detailed waterfall models incorporating contractual triggers, reinvestment mechanics, coverage tests, and tranche‑level allocations.
• Incorporate trading levels, liquidity indicators, sector performance metrics, and macroeconomic factors into valuation models to ensure accurate and defensible assumptions.
• Conduct valuations of bespoke or illiquid private credit instruments, including senior loans, mezzanine debt, second‑lien loans, specialty‑finance exposures, addressing instrument‑specific contractual terms, options, and risk and incorporating observable market inputs and appropriate adjustments.
• Develop supportable discount‑rate assumptions using credit‑adjusted discount rates, instrument‑specific risk premiums, WACC‑based benchmarks, and market‑participant inputs derived from Guideline Public Company (GPC) and Guideline Transaction Method (GTM) analyses.
• Support valuation of structured finance instruments such as CLOs, ABS, RMBS, and CMBS using platforms like Bloomberg, Trepp, and INTEX.
• Prepare comprehensive, well‑structured valuation documentation and memos that clearly articulate methodologies, assumptions, and conclusions in a manner suitable for audit review and regulatory scrutiny.
• Provide training, technical guidance, and review support to junior staff; contribute to team knowledge‑sharing initiatives.

Skills

Financial instruments valuation

DCF modeling

Structured products

Credit analysis

ASC 820 IFRS 13

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance or related quantitative field

Tools

Bloomberg

Capital IQ

INTEXCalc

Trepp

Yield Book

Job description

Harvest Valuations LLC in Burr Ridge, IL seeks a Senior Valuation Specialist to develop and maintain complex valuation models for distressed debt, private credit, and structured products.

You will incorporate market inputs, perform risk-adjusted discount rates, and prepare audit-ready documentation for US GAAP and IFRS, while mentoring junior staff.

This full-time role offers strong compensation and a collaborative, deadline-driven environment.