Senior High Yield Credit Analyst - Credit Research Team

HIGH YIELD

Seeking to fill a Senior High Yield Credit Analyst. As a part of the Credit Research Team, you will work with a group of investment professionals to maximize the risk/return potential of high yield investments while also collaborating with the larger Credit Research team.

- The Senior Analyst will be responsible for the credit coverage of a few major sectors and multiple individual company positions. Research delivery will include supporting primary and secondary trades while maintaining portfolio coverage on existing exposures.

- The candidate is required to have a good understanding of one or many fixed income asset classes, such as High Yield Bonds, and Leveraged Loans.

- The candidate should have prior experience towards supporting on primary and secondary deals by developing extensive financial models with multiple forecast scenario workouts and drafting of Investment Memo in an efficient and time-bound manner, together with excellent written & verbal communication skills to interact with onsite analysts and portfolio managers; which are some prerequisites for the role.

- The team works as the virtual front-end analysts for clients, helping them find value in potential investment opportunities and thereafter, monitor the investment's performance.

- Monitor single name corporate credit situations in North America across performing and opportunistic strategy in both leveraged loan and high yield markets

Perform investment research, including:

- building financial models with KPI driven Revenue models, Cost drivers, Working capital analysis, Capex schedule, Capital Structure forecast, Covenant analysis, Default & Recovery workouts and IRR sensitivities;

- term sheet preparation from credit agreements and bond indentures

- drafting Investment Memos including identification of investment catalysts and provide recommendations on high yield bonds/loans, including fundamental and relative value views for primary and secondary trades

- Maintain portfolio coverage including model updates and earning summary write-ups, while maintaining regular news on the portfolio