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Credit Analyst
A leading asset management firm is seeking to hire a Credit Analyst to join the Global Credit team.
The strategy invests across the credit spectrum, with a particular focus on high yield and leveraged loans. The successful candidate will play an active role in assessing corporate credit opportunities, developing differentiated investment views and supporting portfolio decisions across global markets.
Responsibilities:
- Conducting detailed bottom-up research on high yield and leveraged corporate borrowers across global markets
- Assessing business models, competitive positioning, earnings quality, leverage, liquidity, cash generation, and capital structures
- Identifying mispriced credit through fundamental analysis, relative-value work, and assessment of market technicals
- Developing clear investment theses and communicating the key risks, catalysts, and potential downside associated with individual issuers
- Following portfolio companies closely and updating views as financial, operational, and market conditions evolve
- Monitoring sectors, macroeconomic developments, regulation, and other factors capable of influencing credit outcomes
- Participating in meetings and calls with company management, advisers, and other market participants, preparing focused questions and follow-up analysis
- Working alongside portfolio managers and other members of the credit team to challenge assumptions and refine investment conclusions
- Sharing research, market observations, and investment ideas with colleagues across the broader platform
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Candidate Requirements:
- Approximately 3-5 years of relevant corporate credit research experience, ideally gained within a respected buy-side investment team, although strong sell-side credit research experience will also be considered
- The ability to translate detailed fundamental research into a clear and actionable investment view
- Curiosity about what drives changes in credit quality, valuation, and market pricing
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to articulate and defend an investment view
- Strong academic credentials and a demonstrable commitment to developing as an investor
- An analytical and collaborative mindset, with the humility to challenge your own conclusions and learn from both successful and unsuccessful investment decisions
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