Corporate Infrastructure & Project Finance - Leveraged Finance, Senior Director - Chicago

Fitch Group•Chicago, IL

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role is a senior analytical, market-facing position focused on leveraged finance issuers primarily across broadly syndicated loans (BSL) and high yield bonds. The Senior Director, Leveraged Finance will be a key thought contributor to our analytical ratings teams, providing deep credit expertise and judgment on complex and highly leveraged issuers. The role involves close collaboration with analysts to help shape credit views, particularly on more challenging credits and leveraged finance structures, while serving as a senior and visible representative of Fitch to issuers, bankers, private equity sponsors, and other market participants.

Requirements

Extensive experience across leveraged finance markets, particularly in BSL and high yield bonds.
A strong credit-oriented background, ideally from a buy-side, sell-side, or ratings-adjacent advisory platform.
Demonstrated experience with leveraged loan structuring, syndication and documentation.
Understanding of distressed debt, restructurings, and liability management transactions, and the ability to assess credit implications across stressed scenarios.
A track record of providing analytical judgment on complex credit situations.
Credibility and relationships across leveraged finance market participants, including issuers, PE sponsors, and arranging banks.
Working familiarity with CLO market dynamics and investor considerations as they relate to the leveraged loan ecosystem (deep structuring experience not required).
Excellent knowledge of the broadly syndicated loan market and its participants.
Excellent knowledge of loan syndication, structuring, and documentation of leveraged loans.
Clear speaking and writing communication skills.
Working knowledge of CLOs.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with ratings agency frameworks, methodologies, and workflow is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

Manage a small team within Leveraged Finance.
Provide deep credit expertise and judgment on complex and highly leveraged issuers.
Collaborate with analysts to help shape credit views, particularly on more challenging credits and leveraged finance structures.
Serve as a senior and visible representative of Fitch to issuers, bankers, private equity sponsors, and other market participants.
Use excellent communication skills and knowledge at external client-facing functions and internal team up-skilling.