Junior Credit Analyst for Banks & Insurance

The ideal candidates have a bachelor's degree in finance or with a strong numerical component and are well organised and interested in financial markets. You can follow procedures diligently and identify where they could be simplified or changed to make work even more efficient. You thrive when faced with challenging timescales and can produce high-quality outputs under pressure. You are also a team player and like to work collaboratively. Your enthusiasm for technology will assist your team and ensure we are as efficient as possible.

Key responsibilities:

• Building and updating financial and regulatory models
• Interpreting and analyzing financial statements for credit analysis
• Monitoring and analyzing the impact of news on either a bank's or a company's credit profile
• Background research on either the European banking and insurance sectors.
• Monitoring and interpreting bond and equity market movements
• Attending and eventually participating in meetings with bond issuers and with our clients
• Writing research reports under the guidance of a senior analyst

Key skills:

• One or two years' experience analysing either European banks and insurance.
• Highly organised with a methodical approach to work & excellent attention to detail
• A keen interest in learning about financial markets
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Over time, we would expect the junior analyst to gain enough confidence to analyse companies independently and become the lead credit analyst on selected names. CreditSights will support candidates pursuing the CFA programme.

CreditSights is the leading independent credit research provider for institutional investors, producing fundamental and quantitative research on more than 1,000 issuers of corporate bonds. Headquartered in New York, CreditSights has over 85 analysts and 150 staff, across the US, UK and Singapore. The firm has around 1,000 institutional clients around the world, including banks, investment advisors, mutual funds, pension managers, insurance companies, hedge funds, private equity firms and corporations.