Senior Director, Energy & Power, Corporate, Infrastructure and Project Finance Group - Chicago
Fitch Ratings · Chicago, IL · 1 mo ago
HybridAnalyst$190k–$225k/yrFull-time
We need to produce HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes "What We Offer", "What You Need To Have", "What Would Make You Stand Out", "Why Fitch?" Also includes "For More Information Please Visit Our Websites" but that's boilerplate? It's not required but it's info; but it's basically a link list; we could include as a paragraph? The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The "For More Information Please Visit Our Websites" is not exactly boilerplate but it's like a link list; maybe we keep as a paragraph under a section? There's no explicit heading for that. Could treat as part of "Why Fitch?" but it's separate. However we should only include sections when posting has real specific content. The "For More Information Please Visit Our Websites" is specific content (list of URLs). Could be a section like "More Information". But the instruction says use headings for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. It doesn't forbid other headings, but says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It implies we should use those headings when applicable. But we can also use other headings if needed? Safer to stick to those headings. The posting includes "What We Offer" which could map to Benefits? But it's more about offerings like opportunity, culture. Could be "Benefits". "What You Need To Have" maps to Requirements/Qualifications. "What Would Make You Stand Out" maps to Skills or Qualifications. "Why Fitch?" maybe About the role? Actually About the role is description of role; we have that earlier paragraph: "This role will report into the Head..." and "The primary responsibilities...". That could be About the role and Responsibilities. We need to not repeat job title as heading. We'll produce sections: About the role (h3), Responsibilities (h3), Requirements (h3), Qualifications (h3), Benefits (h3), Pay (h3). Schedule not present, so omit.
We must preserve all substantive information. Let's extract.
About the role: Senior Director, Energy and Power, Corporate, Infrastructure and Project Finance Group. Based out of New York, Chicago, or Toronto office. Reports into Head of Energy and Power, Corporate, Infrastructure and Project Finance Group for North America.
Responsibilities: list from "What We Offer"? Actually responsibilities are in "We’ll Count On You To" bullet list. Also earlier: "The primary responsibilities of the successful candidate will be to focus on the analysis, execution and rating of infrastructure and project finance transactions, in particular those related to energy and power infrastructure assets in the US and Canada. The ability to shape the strategic course for the infrastructure team." Also "Opportunity to take a leadership role analyzing some cutting-edge transactions." etc. So we need to capture all responsibilities.
Let's list responsibilities from the text:
- Focus on analysis, execution and rating of infrastructure and project finance transactions, especially energy and power infrastructure assets in US and Canada.
- Shape the strategic course for the infrastructure team.
- Take a leadership role analyzing cutting-edge transactions.
- Work on leading ratings analysis, execution and research on new and existing North American transactions.
- Evaluating innovative credit structures and participating in global criteria development.
- Identifying relevant trends, assessing their credit impact and highlighting these trends in updated industry and market focused reports/presentations.
- Gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and legal documents for the purpose of producing ratings, publishing credit reports, and contributing to special research reports.
- 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.
- Mentor junior members of the Energy and Power Infrastructure team.
Also earlier: "Opportunity to take a leadership role analyzing some cutting-edge transactions." Already covered.
Now Requirements / Qualifications: "What You Need To Have":
- 10+ years of solid project finance related experience in energy and power infrastructure including development of credit or underwriting approach.
- 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.
- Employee management experience.
Also "What Would Make You Stand Out":
- Rating agency experience.
- Ratings advisory work.
- A deep understanding of and a keen interest in infrastructure and project finance.
- 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.
- Master’s degree in Finance, Business or Public Administration preferred.
We could combine Requirements and Qualifications sections. But instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have Requirements and Qualifications separate. Requirements could be the mandatory items; Qualifications could be the "What Would Make You Stand Out" (preferred). Skills could be separate but we can incorporate into Requirements/Qualifications. However we must not create thin sections; better to have Requirements (includes mandatory) and Qualifications (preferred). Skills maybe part of Requirements. We'll follow.
Benefits: from "What We Offer" (the bullet list before responsibilities). Actually "What We Offer" includes:
- Opportunity to take a leadership role analyzing some cutting-edge transactions.
- Be part of a growing credit team in the ever-evolving infrastructure space.
- A sector that is seeing significant investments resulting in a diversity of new and interesting credits on which to provide independent evaluations.
- Experienced and collaborative team and opportunity to learn about wider infrastructure space.
- Open culture where employees are able to exchange ideas and perspectives.
Also earlier: "Fitch Ratings is seeking a senior credit analyst with 10+ years of solid project finance related experience in the infrastructure sector." That's more requirement.
But "What We Offer" is basically benefits/culture. We'll put those as Benefits.
Pay: we have salary range for NY and Chicago: $190,000 to $225,000 per year. Also note base pay is part of total compensation package which may include commission, bonuses, long-term incentives, other benefits. We'll include that.
Schedule: not present, omit.
Now also need to include location: New York, Chicago, or Toronto office. That's part of About the role.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, conflict of interest, etc. Remove those paragraphs.
Also remove "For More Information Please Visit Our Websites" maybe it's not boilerplate but it's not required; but it's substantive info (links). Could be included as a paragraph under a section like "More Information". But we don't have a heading for that; we could add a paragraph after Benefits? But instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It implies we should use those headings when applicable. But we can also use other headings if needed? Safer to stick to those headings. The posting includes "What We Offer" which could map to Benefits? But it's more about offerings like opportunity, culture. Could be "Benefits". "What You Need To Have" maps to Requirements/Qualifications. "What Would Make You Stand Out" maps to Skills or Qualifications. "Why Fitch?" maybe About the role? Actually About the role is description of role; we have that earlier paragraph: "This role will report into the Head..." and "The primary responsibilities...". That could be About the role and Responsibilities. We need to not repeat job title as heading. We'll produce sections: About the role (h3), Responsibilities (h3), Requirements (h3), Qualifications (h3), Benefits (h3), Pay (h3). Schedule not present, so omit.
We must preserve all substantive information. Let's extract.
About the role: Senior Director, Energy and Power, Corporate, Infrastructure and Project Finance Group. Based out of New York, Chicago, or Toronto office. Reports into Head of Energy and Power, Corporate, Infrastructure and Project Finance Group for North America.
Responsibilities: list from "What We Offer"? Actually responsibilities are in "We’ll Count On You To" bullet list. Also earlier: "The primary responsibilities of the successful candidate will be to focus on the analysis, execution and rating of infrastructure and project finance transactions, in particular those related to energy and power infrastructure assets in the US and Canada. The ability to shape the strategic course for the infrastructure team." Also "Opportunity to take a leadership role analyzing some cutting-edge transactions." etc. So we need to capture all responsibilities.
Let's list responsibilities from the text:
- Focus on analysis, execution and rating of infrastructure and project finance transactions, especially energy and power infrastructure assets in US and Canada.
- Shape the strategic course for the infrastructure team.
- Take a leadership role analyzing cutting-edge transactions.
- Work on leading ratings analysis, execution and research on new and existing North American transactions.
- Evaluating innovative credit structures and participating in global criteria development.
- Identifying relevant trends, assessing their credit impact and highlighting these trends in updated industry and market focused reports/presentations.
- Gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and legal documents for the purpose of producing ratings, publishing credit reports, and contributing to special research reports.
- 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.
- Mentor junior members of the Energy and Power Infrastructure team.
Also earlier: "Opportunity to take a leadership role analyzing some cutting-edge transactions." Already covered.
Now Requirements / Qualifications: "What You Need To Have":
- 10+ years of solid project finance related experience in energy and power infrastructure including development of credit or underwriting approach.
- 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.
- Employee management experience.
Also "What Would Make You Stand Out":
- Rating agency experience.
- Ratings advisory work.
- A deep understanding of and a keen interest in infrastructure and project finance.
- 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.
- Master’s degree in Finance, Business or Public Administration preferred.
We could combine Requirements and Qualifications sections. But instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have Requirements and Qualifications separate. Requirements could be the mandatory items; Qualifications could be the "What Would Make You Stand Out" (preferred). Skills could be separate but we can incorporate into Requirements/Qualifications. However we must not create thin sections; better to have Requirements (includes mandatory) and Qualifications (preferred). Skills maybe part of Requirements. We'll follow.
Benefits: from "What We Offer" (the bullet list before responsibilities). Actually "What We Offer" includes:
- Opportunity to take a leadership role analyzing some cutting-edge transactions.
- Be part of a growing credit team in the ever-evolving infrastructure space.
- A sector that is seeing significant investments resulting in a diversity of new and interesting credits on which to provide independent evaluations.
- Experienced and collaborative team and opportunity to learn about wider infrastructure space.
- Open culture where employees are able to exchange ideas and perspectives.
Also earlier: "Fitch Ratings is seeking a senior credit analyst with 10+ years of solid project finance related experience in the infrastructure sector." That's more requirement.
But "What We Offer" is basically benefits/culture. We'll put those as Benefits.
Pay: we have salary range for NY and Chicago: $190,000 to $225,000 per year. Also note base pay is part of total compensation package which may include commission, bonuses, long-term incentives, other benefits. We'll include that.
Schedule: not present, omit.
Now also need to include location: New York, Chicago, or Toronto office. That's part of About the role.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, conflict of interest, etc. Remove those paragraphs.
Also remove "For More Information Please Visit Our Websites" maybe it's not boilerplate but it's not required; but it's substantive info (links). Could be included as a paragraph under a section like "More Information". But we don't have a heading for that; we could add a paragraph after Benefits? But instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but says use for section headings (e.g. those). It might be okay to add other headings but safer to stick to those. The "For More Information" could be considered part of "About the role" or maybe not needed. However it's not duplicated; it's specific. I'd include it as a paragraph under a section like "More Information" but that would be a heading not in the list. Might be considered adding a thin section. Better to incorporate into "About the role" as a sentence: "For more information, visit www.fitchratings.com, www.fitchsolutions.com, www.fitchlearning.com." That preserves info.
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About the role
About the role
Senior Director, Energy and Power, Corporate, Infrastructure and Project Finance Group based out of New York, Chicago, or Toronto office. Reports into the Head of Energy and Power, Corporate, Infrastructure and Project Finance Group for North America. For more information, visit www.fitchratings.com, www.fitchsolutions.com, www.fitchlearning.com.
Responsibilities
- Focus on the analysis, execution and rating of infrastructure and project finance transactions, particularly energy and power infrastructure assets in the US and Canada.
- Shape the strategic course for the infrastructure team.
- Take a leadership role analyzing cutting‑edge transactions.
- Work on leading ratings analysis, execution and research on new and existing North American transactions.
- Evaluate innovative credit structures and participate in global criteria development.
- Identify relevant trends, assess their credit impact, and highlight these trends in updated industry and market‑focused reports and presentations.
- Gather and analyze quantitative and qualitative data and legal documents to produce ratings, publish credit reports, and contribute to special research reports.
- Maintain a strong external network and profile representing Fitch at industry conferences, webinars, issuer meetings/site visits, and through media communication to build the firm’s reputation for analytical excellence.
- Develop and grow relationships with other analytical groups at Fitch to ensure analytical consistency and efficient execution of multi‑group transactions.
- Mentor junior members of the Energy and Power Infrastructure team.
Requirements
- 10+ years of solid project finance related experience in energy and power infrastructure, including development of credit or underwriting approach.
- Proven project finance and infrastructure credit skills gained in a bank credit department, rating agency, or buy‑side credit department.
- Solid writing and verbal communication skills.
- Open mind to think expansively about 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 with flexibility to take on additional responsibilities as required.
- Employee management experience.
Qualifications
- Rating agency experience.
- Ratings advisory work.
- Deep understanding of and keen interest in infrastructure and project finance.
- Professional background in capital markets and/or credit analysis.
- Experience interpreting complex legal documents such as bank agreements and bond indentures.
- Strong pattern of leadership and ability to proactively interact with various stakeholders inside and outside the organization.
- CFA certification.
- Master’s degree in Finance, Business, or Public Administration (preferred).
Benefits
- Opportunity to take a leadership role analyzing cutting‑edge transactions.
- Be part of a growing credit team in the ever‑evolving infrastructure space.
- Sector seeing significant investments, resulting in a diverse set of new and interesting credits for independent evaluation.
- Experienced and collaborative team with opportunity to learn about the