Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities, Surveillance recruitment

Position Title: Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities, Surveillance

Working Location: US - Chicago, IL

Employment Status: Full-Time Regular

Required Experience: 3 years

Required Education: Bachelors Degree

Travel Required: 0

Job ID: 50002024c

Position Description:
Fitch Ratings is a global rating agency committed to providing value beyond the rating through independent and prospective credit opinions, research and data. Offering a world of knowledge and experience behind every opinion, we transform information to deliver meaning and utility to investors, issuers and other market participants. Fitch Ratings' global expertise draws on local market knowledge and spans across the fixed-income universe. The additional context, perspective and insights we provide help investors make important credit judgments with confidence.

Dual-headquartered in New York and London, Fitch Ratings has 51 offices worldwide. Fitch Ratings is part of the Fitch Group, a majority-owned subsidiary of Fimalac, S.A. headquartered in Paris, France.

Fitch complies with federal, state, and local laws governing employment, and provides equal opportunity to all applicants and employees. All applications will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, and other status protected by applicable laws.

Position Requirements:
Fitch Ratings is seeking to add a highly-motivated and experienced real estate finance professional to the Performance Analytics team in either its New York City or Chicago office. Successful candidates will manage a portfolio of CMBS transactions by identifying key property, loan and bond-level issues, communicate credit opinions to credit committee and the public, and participate in research efforts of the CMBS group.

Essential Functions:
Successful candidates will aggregate and identify key financial and statistical data from various sources, identify and assess credit strengths and risks of loans in existing deals, recommend rating actions to credit committee and communicate credit opinions to investors, issuers, and servicers.

Requirements:
- Ideal candidates will have a BS/BA degree
- minimum of 3 years direct experience in portfolio management or commercial real estate underwriting,
- familiarity with major property types,
- proficiency in Excel and Word and an understanding of securitization;
- strong communication, analytical, organizational, and time-management skills are a must.