Senior Associate, High Yield / Distressed Debt Credit Trading Fund recruitment

Our client is a pre-eminent high yield and distressed debt investment firm, have one of the most successful track records in the sector. They invest in high yield bonus, distressed debt, subinvestment grade instruments and other similar assets.

They are now looking to add a senior associate to their team, whose brief will be to undertake detailed credit analysis of subinvestment grade debt, and make recommendations to the portfolio managers on their investments. The fund will look at both short term and long term holdings, and bonds are actively traded by the fund.

Candidates will have a background as follows:

- Credit analysts from the credit trading desks of major investment banks

- Credit analysts from the leading asset managers

- Potentially, private equity professionals looking to make a move into a credit role

- Candidates need to have excellent high yield experience

- Candidates will have at leat five years experience sinced graduating

- Excepational academic record