Private Placement - Analyst (Senior Associate)
About The Position
Guggenheim Investments is seeking a Private Placement analyst to join a high performing team reporting to the head of Private Placement. The Private Placement team is responsible for originating, underwriting, and monitoring private placement credit, equity, funds, and other illiquid transactions. This position is collaborative and cross-functional, but highly demanding and requires technical skills such as financial modeling and structuring. In addition to investment acumen, a successful candidate will have interpersonal skills facilitating collaboration with broker-dealers, portfolio managers, operations, and accounting. This position is in our Santa Monica, CA office, full-time.
Requirements
- 4-5 years of experience in asset management, investment management or investment banking
- BA/BS degree
- Strong credit, finance, economic, business, analytical, and technical skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail, and problem-solving ability
- Ability to multi-task across analytical, administrative, and research activities in a detail oriented and timely manner
- Advanced Excel proficiency
- Strong commitment to performance and accuracy of work product
- Team oriented individual with ability to work well independently and with diverse and geographically dispersed groups
Nice To Haves
- CFA or interest in pursuing CFA designation
- Asset Management experience: infrastructure, real assets exposure or experience
Responsibilities
- Support review and execution of private placement new issue transactions with a focus on fundamental credit and relative value analysis
- Provide support in secondary trading execution of private placement bonds and analysis related to market liquidity, pricing, and primary supply activity
- Maintain and develop surveillance materials related to originations, market activity, performance monitoring, risk exposures, valuations, among other topics
- Assist analysis and evaluation of transaction amendments and waivers by developing an understanding of covenants and transaction structures
- Work with primary credit research analysts to monitor individual and sector credit positions
- Work with senior team members to diligence private equity and alternative investment opportunities
- Develop and maintain business relationships with sell-side counterparts including all sales, trading, and syndicate functions
- Oversee monthly pricing process for private placement bond holdings in accordance to internal policies and procedures
- Conduct and oversee ad hoc analysis to support PM, management, client, and desk-directed inquiries
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
