Analyst - Leveraged Finance

Types of Jobs - Corporate & Investment Banking

Job title

Analyst - Leveraged Finance

Contract type

Permanent Contract

No

Job summary

The Corporate & Leveraged Finance group within Crédit Agricole CIB advises, originates, structures and executes bank and institutional leveraged loans and high yield bond financings for private equity backed and corporate clients (including TMT), with leading market positions in Europe and a strong presence globally. The Analyst’s role involves a significant level of work on new / live large-cap finance transactions across sectors for a wide variety of clients of the bank. The role will also include assisting senior staff on the management of the portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

· Assist the team in the preparation of marketing materials and pitches to both private equity and corporate clients.

· Conduct analysis of markets (business / sector / transactional / pricing comparables) and credit analysis of potential leveraged finance issuers.

· Financial modelling of transactions.

· Review confidentiality agreements alongside Legal.

· Draft summaries of new business opportunities for conflict check purposes.

· Review of Information Memoranda/ business plans/ due diligence/ term sheets.

· KYC – process new client on-boarding & annual review work.

· Crédit Agricole monitoring tools – data entry, updating and ongoing review.

· Monitoring of portfolio company trading & developments/ account analysis/ waiver request processing etc.

· Drafting early stage credit applications and assisting senior staff on sections of full credit applications.

· Drafting annual review papers.

· Assistance to senior management in all other areas of the business as required.

Geographical area

Europe, United Kingdom

City

London

Bachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalent

• Qualifications show a level of numeracy

Experience

• Awareness of general business, financial and economic environment
• Leverage and management account knowledge
• Experience in Leveraged Finance and/or DCM
• A knowledge and understanding of the financial sponsor community

Required skills

• Excellent analytical research and modelling skills (Excel)
• Good English verbal and written skills
• Proactive and good team player
• Comfortable with deadlines and working under pressure
• Appetite to learn and for hard work
• Flexibility
• Interest in financial markets
• Credit analysis

Technical skills required

• Excellent analytical research and modelling skills (Excel)
• Good English verbal and written skills
• Proactive and good team player
• Comfortable with deadlines and working under pressure
• Appetite to learn and for hard work
• Flexibility
• Interest in financial markets

Languages

General information

Entity

About Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (Crédit Agricole CIB) Crédit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, the 10th largest banking group worldwide in terms of balance sheet size (The Banker, July 2022).8,600 employees in more than 30 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Middle-East and North Africa, support the Bank's clients, meeting their financial needs throughout the world.Crédit Agricole CIB offers its large corporate and institutional clients a range of products and services in capital market activities, investment banking, structured finance, commercial banking and international trade.The Bank is a pioneer in the area of climate finance, and is currently a market leader in this segment with a complete offer for all its clients.For more information, please visit www.ca-cib.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/ca_cib LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/credit-agricole-cib/ Working every day in the interest of society, our Group is committed to diversity and inclusion. To find out more on our Diversity Policy, click here: https://www.credit-agricole.com/en/pdfPreview/198689

Entity

About Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (Crédit Agricole CIB) Crédit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, the 10th largest banking group worldwide in terms of balance sheet size (The Banker, July 2022).8,600 employees in more than 30 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Middle-East and North Africa, support the Bank's clients, meeting their financial needs throughout the world.Crédit Agricole CIB offers its large corporate and institutional clients a range of products and services in capital market activities, investment banking, structured finance, commercial banking and international trade.The Bank is a pioneer in the area of climate finance, and is currently a market leader in this segment with a complete offer for all its clients.For more information, please visit www.ca-cib.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/ca_cib LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/credit-agricole-cib/ Working every day in the interest of society, our Group is committed to diversity and inclusion. To find out more on our Diversity Policy, click here: https://www.credit-agricole.com/en/pdfPreview/198689