Associate Director Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree at minimum, advanced degree a plus
• 7+ years relevant experience in a capital markets and/or credit analysis role
• A healthy sense of intellectual curiosity and a life-long learning mindset
• A demonstrated willingness and ability to attack and explain topics of analytical complexity
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and organizational skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent modelling skills and thorough familiarity with spreadsheet-based financial models
• Ability to read and fully comprehend complex structures and to ask probing questions to issuers and their advisers
• Ability to shift fluidly between multiple projects as priorities change
• Ability to excel in a team-oriented environment

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience covering the infrastructure or project finance sectors and focusing on credit whether on the buy-side, sell-side, a credit department at a bank, or another rating agency.
• The ability to effectively and constructively challenge existing mindsets to assist the group in formulating innovative rating approaches on complex credits, sectors, or topics.

Responsibilities

• Work on ratings analysis and research on new and existing transactions.
• Evaluate innovative credit structures and participate in global rating criteria development.
• Identify and research relevant trends, assessing their credit impact and highlighting these trends in updated industry and market focused reports/presentations.
• Gather and analyze quantitative and qualitative data and legal documents for the purpose of producing ratings, publishing credit reports, and contributing to special research reports.
• Interact with other Fitch analytical groups (i.e. Corporates and Structured) to help develop rating approaches and criteria to bespoke projects.
• In conjunction with senior members of the team, meet with senior management of entities and/or project sponsors, investment bankers and financial advisors, to produce ratings and reports for general publication.
• Maintain a strong external network and profile that continues to build Fitch's reputation for analytical excellence by representing Fitch in a compelling and persuasive manner at industry conferences, webinars, issuer meetings/site visits and through media communication.
• Develop and grow strong relationships with the other analytical groups at Fitch to ensure analytical consistency and efficient execution of transactions that involve multiple groups.

Benefits

• High global visibility
• Solid growth potential
• Exposure to GIG in the Americas and across EMEA
• Interaction with senior analytical members across different regions