Title: Credit Research Analyst

Firm: $9bn Multi-Strat AIA

Location: NYC (on-site)

Role Responsibilities:

The Credit Research Analyst will work with the investment team focused on multi-faceted opportunistic credit program. The analyst will spend the plurality of their time doing investment diligence for direct investing, co-investing, and secondaries.

• Source and analyze a broad range of credit investments.
• Principal focus on corporate credit, including BSL, high yield and private loans, but also opportunities to work on CLO, structured credit and CRE bridge lending activities
• Consolidate due diligence findings to provide detailed overviews, discuss merits and/or weaknesses of potential investments, and other relevant conclusions
• Participate in calls and meetings with sourcing partners, management teams, industry experts and other buy-side and sell-side professionals.
• Conduct independent valuation and industry analyses
• Create and maintain detailed financial models
• Maintain a skeptical approach to data interpretation with a focus on independent verification of assumptions
• Balance fundamental analysis with an appreciation for markets driven guidance, sentiment and indicators when performing research
• Monitor private credit strategy and sector allocation and diversification
• Document meetings and circulate notes to investment team and log them in CRM
• Prepare monthly commentaries and performance attribution summaries to be used by the broader investment team and the marketing team
• Keep abreast of meaningful market news, corporate security valuation and relevant events to better assess investment strengths and weaknesses
• Monitor a variety of data sources to detect changes in fundamental and sentiment changes for companies and areas of interest while also identifying potential risks
• Evaluate data to generate actionable investment theses
• Provide daily recaps that identify major portfolio movers

Qualifications:

• Strong interest in the markets and a passion for investing is essential
• 2-8+ years of credit markets experience at an investment bank, investment management firm or research firm required
• Prior investment experience in public corporate credit, private credit and / or ABS
• Strong modeling skills and /or high level of proficiency with Excel
• High integrity and strong work ethic
• Ambitious self-starter with highly proactive mentality and ability to anticipate
• Team player
• Superior analytical skills and an excellent academic track record
• A bachelor’s degree with a proven strong academic background