Credit Analyst, Director - Global Infrastructure and Project Finance Group - San Fran

About the role

Fitch Corporate, Infrastructure and Project Finance Group is currently seeking a Director based out of our New York, Chicago, Austin or Toronto offices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the analysis of infrastructure and project finance transactions
• Assist in efforts to enhance rating approaches and criteria development for complex and non-standard credits
• Identify and research relevant trends, assessing their credit impact and highlighting these trends in updated industry and market focused reports/presentations
• Evaluate innovative credit structures and participate in global rating criteria development
• Work on ratings analysis and research on new and existing complex transactions
• Interact with other Fitch analytical groups to help develop rating approaches and criteria to bespoke projects
• Meet with senior management of entities and/or project sponsors, investment bankers and financial advisors to produce these ratings and reports for general publication
• Maintain a strong external network and profile that continues to build Fitch's reputation for analytical excellence by representing Fitch in a compelling and persuasive manner at industry conferences, webinars, issuer meetings/site visits and through media communication
• 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

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree at minimum, advanced degree a plus;
• 7+ years relevant experience in a capital markets and/or credit analysis role;
• A healthy sense of intellectual curiosity and a life-long learning mindset;
• A demonstrated willingness and ability to attack and explain topics of analytical complexity;
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and organizational skills;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• 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.
• Ability to shift fluidly between multiple projects as priorities change;
• Ability to excel in a team-oriented environment.

Qualifications

• Previous experience covering the infrastructure or project finance sectors and focusing on credit whether on the buy-side, sell-side, a credit department at a bank, or another rating agency.
• The ability to effectively and constructively challenge existing mindsets to assist the group in formulating innovative rating approaches on complex credits, sectors or topics.