Credit Markets Reporter (New York)
About The Position
LevFin Insights, part of CreditSights, is seeking a secondary markets reporter to join its growing team in New York. The role focuses on leveraged loan and high-yield secondary market movers. LevFin Insights provides breaking news, data, and analysis across the global leveraged finance market, including leveraged loans, high yield, and CLOs. The reporter will cover trading situations and market trends, using investor and trader sources, company disclosures, SEC filings, and proprietary data to develop timely, insightful stories. The role also contributes to coverage reports and product development, and represents LFI at industry events and meetings. The position is based in a hybrid work environment, with three days a week in the office required based on line of business and location. The expected New York base pay is $90,000 to $100,000 per year. Actual pay may vary based on education, training, experience, past performance, and other job-related factors. Total compensation may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, long-term incentives, and other benefits.
Requirements
- A drive to break news in a fast-paced environment.
- Time-management skills and the ability to meet multiple deadlines.
- Attention to detail and proficiency with financial data.
- Strong communication skills to support internal collaboration and build external relationships across the capital markets arena.
Nice To Haves
- Two or more years of experience in leveraged finance.
- A source list in leveraged finance.
- Journalistic experience.
- Dexterity with spreadsheet and data analysis.
- Knowledge of M&A and private equity transactions.
- Knowledge of financial statements, SEC filings, and legal documents.
Responsibilities
- Author daily stories about trading situations in the market.
- Build a source list of investors and traders to gain insight into situations moving markets.
- Analyze company disclosures and SEC filings to identify impacts on companies’ debt.
- Develop statistics-based stories from proprietary data and write timely, insightful pieces.
- Coordinate with the Special Situations team to gather information on private earnings- and earnings-related debt movers.
- Capture market trends and deliver summaries in weekly, monthly, and sector coverage reports.
- Help grow the product by developing new secondary market coverage reports or enhancing existing projects such as webinars and podcasts.
- Represent LFI at industry events and through personal meetings.
Benefits
- Retirement planning programs.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Comprehensive healthcare offerings supporting physical, mental, financial, social, and occupational wellbeing.
- A global parental leave plan.
- Employee Resource Groups.
- Paid volunteer days.
- Matched funding for donations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
