Surveillance Officer

About Fortress

Fortress Investment Group LLC is a leading, highly diversified global investment manager with approximately $55 billion of assets under management as of December 31, 2025. Founded in 1998, Fortress manages assets on behalf of approximately 2,000 institutional clients and private investors worldwide across a range of credit and real estate, private equity and permanent capital investment strategies. Investment performance is our cornerstone - we strive to generate strong risk adjusted returns for our investors over the long term. For additional information on Fortress, please visit www.fortress.com.

About Credit

Fortress has been a leading participant in the corporate credit markets for 20+ years. Since its inception, the Fortress Credit business has been active across both direct lending and public credit markets with the flexibility to invest throughout the capital structure and experience deploying capital through varied economic and credit cycles. We have deployed nearly a hundred billion dollars across thousands of transactions making Fortress one of the most experienced managers in the market today.

About the Role

Fortress is seeking a Surveillance Officer within the asset management division of its Asset-Based Credit Group within the Credit Funds business. The Asset-Based Credit Group focuses on a broad mandate of investment opportunities across the capital structure in the specialty finance sector including consumer finance, commercial finance and other contractual cash flowing receivable assets. The team generally concentrates on lending against and acquiring assets originated by companies across these sectors. The investment model emphasizes deep industry and asset class specific research along with substantial data analysis as a backdrop to formulating opinions on attractive transactions and deal structures.

The Surveillance Officer will join our New York office (in-person) and will be involved in pre-closing due diligence work as well as regular post-closing surveillance audits on closed transactions. Note: This role requires extensive travel. The ideal candidate will be able to travel 80% of the time with most travel being domestic. However, some international travel may be required.

Responsibilities

• Conduct regular forensic surveillance audits on closed transactions to ensure compliance with legal documents and adherence to counterparts’ underwriting guidelines.
• Participate in upfront due diligence with counterparts on potential transactions.
• Plan engagements with internal team members and counterparts, develop standard procedures for each counterpart, conduct fieldwork reviews, and report findings in oral and written reports to internal management.
• Review historical portfolio data for use in future due diligence reviews and identify adverse trends which may indicate potential collateral problems.

Requirements

The ideal candidate will be a hardworking, detail-oriented person who is vigilant and diligent and has superior oral and written communication skills with an understanding of the financial due diligence process.

• Recent college graduate with an accounting degree or two (2) years of experience in accounting, banking or rating agency work, and knowledge and experience with consumer finance or asset-backed securities.

Compensation

The base salary range for this position is expected to be between $90,000 and $150,000.

The base salary range proposed for this role has been set forth to comply with local law, but salary is only one element of the total compensation for this role. The base salary range above does not include compensation elements such as bonuses, overtime and deferred cash, benefits, perquisites, and company contributions to employee 401(k) accounts. Such other pay components often result in total compensation materially exceeding base salary for a particular role. Total compensation as well as base salary for a role depend in part upon individual performance, years of service, experience, geographic considerations, the performance and the needs of particular business units, company performance, and general market conditions.

Equality & Diversity

Fortress Investment Group LLC collectively with its subsidiaries and operating affiliates is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.