Selby Jennings
High Yield / Distressed Credit Analyst
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Credit Investment Analyst
An established investment platform is seeking a Credit Investment Analyst to join its broader credit-focused team. The role offers exposure across corporate debt markets, with a particular emphasis on identifying relative value, event-driven opportunities, and complex credit situations across both liquid and less liquid securities.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct detailed fundamental analysis across a broad universe of corporate issuers, spanning high yield, distressed, and special situations opportunities.
- Monitor market developments, earnings releases, economic data, and company-specific events, providing timely investment views and recommendations.
- Generate and develop actionable trade ideas in partnership with portfolio managers, traders, and research professionals across multiple asset classes.
- Build and maintain comprehensive financial models to evaluate credit quality, downside risk, capital structure dynamics, and catalyst-driven opportunities.
- Analyse potential long and short investment opportunities by incorporating both company fundamentals and broader macroeconomic themes.
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Candidate Profile
- 4+ years of experience within credit research, fixed income investing or leveraged finance.
- CFA qualification or progress toward completion is advantageous but not essential.
- Strong financial modelling, valuation, and analytical capabilities with the ability to interpret complex capital structures.
- Demonstrated interest in global markets, economic developments, and geopolitical trends affecting credit assets.
- Comfortable making decisions and forming views in fast-moving market environments.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate investment ideas clearly and concisely.
- Prior experience within an event-driven, special situations, distressed debt, or opportunistic credit strategy would be beneficial.
- Self-motivated, intellectually curious, and able to manage competing priorities effectively.
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What You'll Gain
- Direct exposure to investment decision-making across a broad credit universe.
- Opportunity to work alongside experienced investors and traders within a collaborative environment.
- Significant responsibility and visibility from day one.
- A dynamic role focused on generating alpha through fundamental and catalyst-driven credit investing.
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