Quantitative Analyst, Private Credit

Point72 • New York, NY

2h • $140,000 - $160,000

About The Position

The Quantitative Analyst will join Point72’s Risk and Quantitative Research (RQR) team, which supports the firm’s investment process through risk management research and performance attribution. The team aims to protect the firm from improper exposure and ensure risk-taking is efficient and deliberate.

This role focuses on private credit portfolios. The analyst will assess portfolio and transaction risks, monitor performance and exposures, prepare reporting and commentary for investment professionals and senior stakeholders, and research credit markets and risk measurement techniques. The analyst will also work with risk managers, investment teams, and technologists to investigate exposures, improve data quality, automate analysis, and strengthen portfolio risk infrastructure.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, or another related discipline.
• 1–2 years of experience in quantitative research, trading, portfolio analytics, or risk management focused on credit markets.
• Strong understanding of private credit instruments and their behavior across changing markets and borrower-specific conditions.
• Strong corporate credit analysis skills, including evaluating financial statements, borrower fundamentals, leverage, and repayment capacity.
• Strong understanding of capital structures, covenants, and how deal terms influence risk outcomes in private credit portfolios.
• Experience with portfolio-level risk measurement, including concentration, sensitivity, scenario, and downside risk analysis.
• Ability to communicate complex findings clearly to investment professionals, risk managers, technologists, and senior stakeholders.
• Attention to detail, accountability, and ability to independently manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work full time in New York.
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards.

Responsibilities

• Analyze private credit portfolios to identify key drivers of risk, return, concentration, liquidity, and downside exposure.
• Partner with investment teams to review private credit transactions, including deal structure, borrower fundamentals, covenants, downside risks, and diligence findings.
• Evaluate borrower fundamentals, capital structures, covenants, and deal terms to assess vulnerabilities across private credit investments.
• Monitor portfolio performance, exposures, concentrations, risk limits, and emerging company- or sector-level issues.
• Ensure accurate tracking of portfolio activity, key terms, risk metrics, and performance trends.
• Prepare weekly and ad hoc reporting for senior risk management, business leadership, and firm management.
• Provide practical risk commentary on portfolio performance, investment activity, and developments across the private credit book.
• Produce concise reporting that translates complex analytics into actionable observations for investment professionals and senior stakeholders.
• Partner with risk managers to monitor limits, investigate emerging exposures, and escalate material changes in portfolio risk profiles.
• Research credit market trends, portfolio behavior, and risk measurement techniques.
• Collaborate with technologists to improve data quality, automate recurring analysis, and strengthen private credit risk infrastructure.

Benefits

• Fully-paid health care benefits
• Generous parental and family leave policies
• Volunteer opportunities
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of color, and the LGBT+ community
• Mental and physical wellness programs
• Tuition assistance
• 401(k) savings program with an employer match

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level