Fixed Income Research Analyst - Leveraged Finance

TIAA • San Francisco, CA

13d

About The Position

Nuveen Investment’s Leveraged Finance team is seeking to hire an associate analyst to focus on the domestic leveraged finance market, which includes leveraged loans, CLOs, high yield, convertibles, and alternative strategies. The Leveraged Finance platform at Nuveen applies a collaborative and team-based approach to rigorous fundamental underwriting across the capital structure and risk spectrum, from higher quality non-investment grade to distressed situations. The team’s philosophy is to invest in liquid capital structures, both long and short, where relative value dislocations and event driven catalysts exist. Leveraged Finance manages $42 billion in AUM, and its investment strategies include hedge funds, separately managed accounts, comingled strategies and sub-advisory mandates for both retail and institutional clients, including Nuveen’s parent company, TIAA-CREF.

Requirements

• Minimum of 2+ years’ financial services experience
• Proficiency in Excel; working knowledge of Bloomberg
• Strong quantitative, analytical, and financial modeling abilities
• Ability to work well under pressure, prioritize and multitask
• Strong communication and writing skills
• High attention to detail
• Teamwork oriented

Nice To Haves

• 1-3 years of experience in investment banking, buy-side credit research, sell-side or desk credit research/commercial banking, or leveraged finance capital markets
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

Responsibilities

• Working closely with senior analysts in preparing analyses for the underwriting of potential primary and secondary investments, both long and short, including participating in investor presentations and management meetings, analyzing business drivers and risks, building financial models and capitalization tables, and drafting investment write-ups.
• Supporting senior analysts from the Leveraged Finance credit research team to effectively manage and monitor investments in leveraged loans, high yield, distressed and convertibles, including updating financial models, participating in earnings and management calls and inputting data into proprietary research systems.
• Assuming primary coverage of investments and subsectors over time, with responsibility to make recommendations on positions and generate new ideas within coverage universe.
• Assisting with ESG analysis and monitoring of portfolio investments for ESG risk.

Benefits

• Our benefits include a superior retirement program and highly competitive health, wellness and work life offerings that can help you achieve and maintain your best possible physical, emotional and financial well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees