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What We Do
Insurance is a $10T industry still running on PDFs, email threads, and manual reconciliation. Ascend is changing that. We built the first and only complete financial operations platform purpose-built for insurance — combining accounting automation, payments, and premium financing in a single vertically integrated solution. In five years, we've become the market leader: over 4,000 businesses, including more than half of the 50 largest brokers in the country, trust Ascend to bring clarity to complex accounting operations — from collection to close.
How We Do It
Ascend automates the financial operations that insurers, MGAs, and agencies run every day — and embeds directly into the transactions where money actually moves. Point solutions are easy to build and even easier to copy. The companies that win won't just sell tools — they'll capture value where the money actually moves. Ascend is built for exactly that moment. Our customers don't just adopt software — they unlock measurable efficiency with a proven 5–7x return on investment.
Our team is based in San Francisco and Columbus. We bring deep expertise in insurance, fintech, and financial infrastructure to build what the industry has never had.
Why We Do It
The insurance industry intermediates trillions of dollars — and almost none of that infrastructure was built for the modern era. Legacy systems aren't just inefficient; they're a ceiling on what the industry can become.
Ascend's mission is to become the leading financial automation platform for insurance by 2030 — powering the financial operations of the entire industry and transforming the way trillions of dollars move. We're not building another point solution. We're building the financial backbone of insurance.
About Honor (the premium financing division of Ascend)
Honor Capital is the premium financing division of Ascend, the only complete financial operations automation platform purpose-built for insurance - providing accounting automation, payments, and premium financing in one place. Premium finance is a short-duration, self-liquidating asset class secured by the unearned premium of the underlying policy, representing roughly $70 billion in annual originations across the U.S. property and casualty market and growing at a ~15% CAGR. Honor Capital is the fourth-largest premium finance provider in the United States and authorized in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. To learn more, visit www.honor.capital or www.useascend.com.
About the Role
We are looking for a detail-oriented, analytically driven Capital Markets Manager to manage capital markets for Honor Capital. This role will play a central part in managing the day-to-day operations of Honor Capital's securitizations and other funding facilities, combining strong modeling skills with hands-on data management to keep the portfolio running smoothly. You'll balance rigorous quantitative work with cross-functional collaboration — owning key bank and rating agency relationships, managing legal deliverables on funding transactions, and driving portfolio analytics (forecasting, utilization, performance, and reporting) alongside the design and execution of new funding facilities. You will be an employee of Honor Capital, an Ascend company.
This role has the option to be onsite in San Francisco, CA, Fort Lauderdale, Florida or remote (EST hours).
Responsibilities
Objective #1: In your first 30 days, you will:
Objective #2: In your first 60 days, you will:
Objective #3: In your first 90 days, and beyond, you will:
Qualifications
Required Skills
Preferred Skills
Compensation: $125,000-$175,000
We are committed to equal opportunity employment and embrace diversity within our organization. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We encourage candidates to apply even if their experience doesn't precisely match this opportunity. We value diversity and are dedicated to equal opportunity employment.