Restructuring Senior Analyst

Lord Abbett • Jersey City, NJ

8d • $180,000 - $230,000

About The Position

The Role Lord Abbett seeks a highly motivated, team-oriented individual to join its Taxable Fixed Income group as a Restructuring Senior Analyst to focus on stressed, distressed, and in and out of court restructurings across all asset classes. This individual will be part of the Leveraged Credit Team and will interact with investment professionals across the entire Taxable Fixed Income organization. The role provides an opportunity to directly impact the management of fixed-income portfolios in a highly flat and dynamic organization, and we are looking for an individual who can grow into a leadership role as we continue to build out our distressed and restructuring capabilities. We’ll trust you to: Collaborate with portfolio management, research, trading, and legal to help oversee stressed, distressed and restructuring situations to maximize outcomes. Execute in and out of court restructuring, liability management exercises, and workout situations. Represent our investors’ interests in creditor committees. Build and maintain relationships with financial advisors, external legal counsel, and other market participants. Build out in-depth credit, financial scenario, recovery, and capital structure analyses. Assist credit research analyst team with stressed and distressed analysis. Communicate deal related commentary to the broader team, department, and other firmwide stakeholders. Identify new opportunistic credit and new money opportunities. Actively monitor positions and industry dynamics. Maintain and improve repeatable framework and processes around stressed and distressed investments.

Requirements

• 6-9+ years of stressed/distressed and restructuring experience, preferably on the buy side.
• Prior experience should include executing restructurings transactions to maximize outcomes.
• High motivation to learn, grow, and develop as an investor in a collaborative, team-oriented environment.
• Excellent quantitative, communication, and investment management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to organize and collaborate with multiple constituencies with divergent objectives.
• Outstanding project management skills.
• Ability to articulate investment objectives in a clear and concise manner with internal and external constituents.
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills with a proficiency in scenario based financial modeling.
• BA/BS degree required

Nice To Haves

• MBA degree, CFA designation viewed positively but not required.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with portfolio management, research, trading, and legal to help oversee stressed, distressed and restructuring situations to maximize outcomes.
• Execute in and out of court restructuring, liability management exercises, and workout situations.
• Represent our investors’ interests in creditor committees.
• Build and maintain relationships with financial advisors, external legal counsel, and other market participants.
• Build out in-depth credit, financial scenario, recovery, and capital structure analyses.
• Assist credit research analyst team with stressed and distressed analysis.
• Communicate deal related commentary to the broader team, department, and other firmwide stakeholders.
• Identify new opportunistic credit and new money opportunities.
• Actively monitor positions and industry dynamics.
• Maintain and improve repeatable framework and processes around stressed and distressed investments.

Benefits

• Lord Abbett is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package to all eligible employees. Offerings include competitive total compensation, retirement plans, competitive health and well-being plans.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees