Director
Full Time
Job Description
- Ability to independently lead credit ratings process and research efforts on a variety of debt transactions involving investment funds, and other related vehicles.
- Lead or contribute to speaking, publishing, and networking efforts to expand position as a thought leader in the growing global fund finance sector.
- Extensive knowledge and comfort assessing credit risk across a wide variety of investment strategies and transaction structures.
- Exceptional writing skills with demonstrated ability to distill complex topics into reasoned opinions and recommendations for internal credit committee presentations as well as externally published reports.
- Excellent presentation skills with experience in small and large group settings
- Ability to leverage and seamlessly collaborate with our experts in other sectors such as project finance, financial institutions, and structured credit.
- Ability to plan, conduct and lead on-site diligence meetings with fund management teams to assess their investment expertise, risk management skills, operational processes and overall ability to develop and successfully execute strategies.
- Lead/assist in the development of rating and analytical tools such as cash flow models used to evaluate fund debt structures.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Bachelor's degree required and advanced degree preferred.
- 6 or more years of work experience as a credit analyst with experience in fund finance, investing or structured finance cash flow modeling a significant plus.
- Advanced graduate degree or CFA designation a plus.
- Ability to work, lead, and seamlessly integrate in a highly collegial, dynamic, and innovative work environment.
- Ability to work on multi-task and work on multiple transaction at the same time a must.
- Effective verbal communications skills.
- Demonstrated ability to write clearly and concisely.
- Proficiency in Advanced Excel for conducting credit and cash flow modeling.
- Extremely high attention to detail.
- Self-starter and an ability to manage time and resources in a fast-growing company.
- Comfortable in a multinational environment.
- Flexible with regards to participating in meetings at non-standard hours to meet deliverables.
- Ability to speak multiple languages a plus.
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