Associate Director, Corporate, Infrastructure and Project Finance Group - New York

About the role

Fitch Ratings’ North America Corporate, Infrastructure and Project Finance Group is currently seeking an Associate Director based out of our New York, Chicago, or Toronto office.

Responsibilities

• Opportunity to take a leadership role analyzing some cutting-edge transactions.
• Part of a growing credit team in the ever-evolving energy and power infrastructure space.
• Involvement in a sector that is seeing significant investments resulting in a diversity of new and interesting credits on which to provide independent evaluations.
• Opportunity to work in an experienced and collaborative team that has an open culture, where employees can exchange ideas and perspectives.
• Work on leading ratings analysis, execution and research on new and existing North American transactions.
• Identify relevant trends, assess their credit impact and highlight these trends in updated industry and market focused reports/presentations.
• Gather and analyze quantitative and qualitative data and legal documents for the purpose of producing ratings, publishing credit reports, and contributing to special research reports.
• Develop and grow strong relationships with the other analytical groups at Fitch to ensure analytical consistency and efficient execution of transactions that involve multiple groups.
• Mentor junior members of the team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of solid project finance related experience in infrastructure.
• Proven project finance and infrastructure credit skills gained in a bank credit department, a rating agency, buy side credit department, etc.
• Solid writing and verbal communication skills.
• An open mind to think expansively about the opportunity and risk in the evolving infrastructure landscape.
• Excellent modelling skills and thorough familiarity with spreadsheet-based financial models.
• Ability to read and fully comprehend complex structures and to ask probing questions to issuers and their advisers.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and display a strong degree of flexibility to take on additional responsibilities, as required.

Qualifications

• A professional background in capital markets and/or credit analysis.
• Experience in interpreting complex legal documents such as bank agreements and bond indentures.
• A strong pattern of leadership and the ability to proactively and successfully interact with various stakeholders, both within and outside of the organization.
• CFA.
• A Master’s degree in Finance, Business or Public Administration preferred.

Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Knowledge of financial modeling and valuation techniques.
• Understanding of regulatory requirements and compliance.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $110,000 and $135,000 per year. Actual salaries will be determined on an individualized basis and may vary based on factors including but not limited to education, training, experience, past performance, and other job-related factors.

Schedule

Not specified.