Director – Corporates

Fitch Ratings

Dual-headquartered in New York and London, Fitch Ratings is a global rating agency dedicated 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 the fixed-income universe. The additional context, perspective and insights we provide help investors make important credit judgments with confidence.

 

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Fitch is seeking a Director for a unique role within its U.S. Corporates Group. The candidate will work directly with the Head of U.S. Leveraged Finance.  The ideal candidate will possess strong credit analysis and finance skills.  This candidate will have a deep understanding of loan and bond documentation and legal structures. The person who fills this role will be comfortable navigating and documenting key features of debt documents with a strong emphasis on financial and other debt covenants. 

 

The person who fills this role will support a variety of sector teams in covering leveraged finance entities. This requires that the individual be comfortable in support  / coordinator roles as well as cross functional leadership situations. Qualitative credentials such as enthusiasm, interpersonal skills, and passion for learning and achievement will weigh meaningfully in the selection of the candidate.  A self-directed individual comfortable with complexity, with a team mind-set, strong focus on results, and a solid work ethic will thrive in this opportunity. 

 

The individual will conduct, author and publish research on companies under coverage, the leveraged finance market in general and on important themes related to corporate credit.  The individual will also be involved in special projects related to creating formal training and enhancing our team's internal procedures.  There will be opportunity for accelerating responsibility as the candidate demonstrates capacity for an enhanced role.   

Essential Functions:

Primary duties include:

* Conducting thorough analysis of debt and legal structure documents.

* Authoring insightful research on topics like: pensions, bankruptcy, nuances of debt instrument types (asset-based lending facilities, for example), etc.
* Performing analysis of key quantitative and qualitative factors influencing credit quality for individual entities.

* Ultimately communicating analysis to external audiences (primarily institutional investors, sell-side analysts and media) in meetings, conference calls, press releases and written research reports

Qualifications:

* Must possess 5 - 10+ years of relevant experience
* Legal background or formal credit training preferred

* MBA and/or CFA a plus
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills

* Proficiency in Excel and Word and Powerpoint

* A strong foundation of analytical skills

* Self-motivation and the enthusiasm for synthesizing highly complex information and concepts into straightforward, concise and insightful research

 

Additional Information:

Examples of research can be found at www.fitchratings.com.   Ratings Research Corporate Finance Leveraged Finance.  Report examples include "Fitch 50"; "U.S. Pension OPEB – Recovery Implications" and "The Annual Manual for the Americas". 

July 23, 2013 • Tags:  • Posted in: Financial

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