Credit Research Analyst

Key Responsibilities

• Perform credit analysis using credit metrics (liquidity, coverage, solvency etc.) and help with investment recommendations. This includes conducting fundamental credit research on corporate issuers, sovereigns, and other credit products across various industries with a focus on the APAC region).
• Creating and maintaining Excel based financial models with forecasts and benchmarking companies on financial and operating metrics, including industry research, capital structure analysis, peers comparison, and recovery analysis
• Incorporate acquisition/merger announcements (merger models) or long-term business plan projections in the existing model of the portfolio companies
• Reviewing credit agreements and bond indentures for the covenant package and incorporating them in models for covenant testing
• Publishing quarterly and annual write-ups on portfolio companies that includes investment recommendations based on past trends and financial model projections
• Explaining the rationale to clients/onshore team behind industry drivers, company KPIs, business strategy, model assumptions, and investment recommendations
• Listening to and summarizing earnings conference calls on a quarterly basis
• Responsible for writing credit reviews, including Credit Ratios Analysis, Covenant Analysis, Capital Structure Analysis ,Credit Comparables ,Impact of Macro factors (Economy, Industry) and qualitative factors including Business/Asset Quality, Management etc. on the creditworthiness of a company ,Identifying credit strengths and weaknesses
• Writing sector summaries
• Preparation of financial models using financial statements, debt schedule, and financial forecast
• Extraction of debt related information, e.g. price, maturity, Yield, Z-spread, CDS etc. from databases

Skill Set and Required:

• Excellent understanding of credit research / analysis concepts
• Experience with financial modeling and writing credit reports is preferable
• Comfort with databases like Bloomberg, Capital IQ etc.
• Excellent communication skills; Experience in handling client calls and other client communication
• Excellent attention to detail with ability to ensure high quality of deliverables
• Ability to work under pressure and manage strict deadlines