Senior Municipal Credit Analyst
About The Position
Candidate will analyze municipal credits across various sectors and across the credit spectrum in support of the firm’s public finance banking, sales, underwriting, and trading teams. In the primary market, the candidate will support the public finance bankers in multiple ways, including attending issuer meetings, soliciting investor feedback, providing credit notes to the sales team on select credits, and serving on the firm’s Commitment Committee. The candidate will also support the sales and trading teams with credit support on secondary market trades. The candidate will be in the firm’s New York City office, although another office location could be considered. This is a full-time position.
Requirements
- Candidate must have relevant fundamental credit analysis experience and strong working knowledge of the municipal bond market landscape
- Expertise in – or ability to pick up knowledge in – various sectors, such as tax-backed, utility, airport, pre-paid gas, and housing
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Ability to work independently as well as with a team
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to prioritize and multi-task
- Ability to remain flexible with changing priorities
- Must be confident and comfortable interacting with sales, trading, banking, as well as institutional and issuer clients
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Must be willing and able to travel to visit clients and to participate in public speaking engagements
- Must be able to provide writing samples
- Undergraduate degree required
- Competency with Bloomberg, Word, Excel, and Power Point
- Must have Series 52 and 63 licenses, or be willing to obtain them shortly after employment
Nice To Haves
- MBA, CPA, or CFA is preferred
Responsibilities
- Monitor and analyze issuer credit quality
- Monitor and assess general market conditions as well as legislative and regulatory changes that affect the municipal market
- Ability to produce periodic written material on certain sectors or events that impact the municipal bond market
- Provide client-related feedback to sales and trading
- Provide credit and structuring insights to the public finance team and assist with RFP responses, oral presentations, and relationship development
- Develop relationships across the fixed income platform, including with the issuer and investor communities
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life insurance
- critical illness insurance
- accident insurance
- disability benefits
- retirement savings
- paid time off (including vacation, holidays, and sick leave)
- parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
