Ratings Support Analyst – EMEA Insurance recruitment
Dual-headquartered in New York and London with 50 offices worldwide, 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 across the fixed-income universe. The additional context, perspective and insights we provide help investors make important credit judgments with confidence.
Fitch Solutions is committed to delivering value beyond the rating by providing a range of fixed-income products and professional development services to the global financial community. In addition to offering proprietary content, the firm also distributes the ratings, research, financial data and analytical tools of Fitch Ratings. With innovation and experience behind every product and service, Fitch Solutions' flexible offerings are designed to meet the diverse needs of the credit markets. Fitch Ratings and Fitch Solutions are part of the Fitch Group, a jointly-owned subsidiary of Fimalac, S.A. and Hearst Corporation.
Department Overview:
The Fitch Ratings Insurance Group provides ratings and research on insurance companies and insurance markets worldwide. Because of the increasing globalisation of insurance markets, the group coordinates all research and analysis through a global organisational structure to achieve consistency of rating methodology across countries.
The Insurance Group combines timely, accurate and transparent coverage with responsive service to help insurance market participants thoroughly assess their risk.
Job Description:
Fitch Ratings is seeking an entry-level Analyst to support the EMEA insurance ratings team. Working with a dynamic, multi-national team of insurance rating specialists, the successful candidate will be based in London and will join a newly-formed support function.
The successful candidate will work closely with a team of life and non-life coverage analysts in London and by telephone and e-mail elsewhere across EMEA, maintaining spread sheets of insurers’ data, contributing to research reports and developing PowerPoint slide presentations for internal and external use. Training and development will be provided both in a formal structure and through on-the-job experience.
This role provides a good opportunity for the candidate to build credit rating experience, to develop analytical skills and to acquire knowledge of the global insurance market.
The successful candidate will have the following attributes:
- A strong educational background, preferably including a good first degree
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
- Teamwork ethic is an essential aspect of the role
- A professional approach, able to work diligently and accurately to multiple deadlines
- The ability to conduct business fluently in English is essential
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- The ability to explain technical concepts in simple terms
- A questioning mind-set to identify which information is important and which is not
- Attention to detail
- Industry experience and familiarity with financial statements would be viewed positively but is not a prerequisite
- Fluency in French, German, Italian or Russian would be an advantage but is not a prerequisite
Fitch is an equal opportunity employer that employs people across the full spectrum of society. Fitch works hard to create a workplace with an emphasis on inclusion, innovation and merit. By valuing diversity and equality in our workplace, we believe it adds strength to our business