Senior Credit Analyst

Cognitive Credit; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology company is seeking a Senior Credit Analyst to join their team in London. In this role, you will build a global credit data set and serve as a primary contact for European clients. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in the credit markets and financial analysis, along with strong skills in Excel. Flexible remote working options are available.

Benefits

Competitive salary

25 days PTO

Flexible remote working options

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in financial credit markets.
• Experience specific to credit markets and/or credit analysis.
• Strong ability to analyze financial statements and create credit models.

Responsibilities

• Utilizing machine learning technology to build credit products.
• Serving as a primary contact for European-based clients.
• Leading product development and strategic objectives discussions.

Skills

Credit market analysis

Financial analysis

Excel proficiency

Communication with financial market participants

Education

Finance qualifications such as CFA

Strong academic track record in finance

Job description

Overview

Cognitive Credit is the fastest growing specialist credit data provider across the US, UK & Europe. We are a financial technology company that works with the world's largest investment banks, asset managers, and hedge funds.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Credit Analyst based in London, United Kingdom to help build our global credit data set and be a main point of contact into European high yield and leveraged loan markets. The position will report to the VP, Data located in London, UK.

Responsibilities

• utilizing machine learning technology to build and maintain a suite of global credit products across HY, IG and Leveraged loan issuers
• providing in-house expertise to help lead the globally positioned Data Analyst team
• serving as a primary contact for our London and European-based clients - the world's largest investment banks and asset managers
• acting as the Company's eyes and ears on the ground in European credit markets
• contributing to product development and innovation, in addition to new sales deal flow

Qualifications

• An ideal candidate will have professional experience in the asset management, sell-side analyst or investment banking capacity, with a focus in credit markets and financial analysis.
• 5+ years in financial credit markets and a mindset that there must be a better way
• financial analyst background in either asset management or as a sell-side research analyst
• experience specific to credit markets and/or credit analysis
• comfortable interacting with financial market participants as evidenced by specific experience
• Financial statement and credit analysis experience; familiarity with creating credit models from scratch
• Finance qualifications such as CFA preferred
• Strong academic track record, with a background in finance and credit markets
• Strong Excel knowledge
• Ability and desire to stay abreast of a quickly evolving technological landscape

Typical Day

• Growing our global credit data set
• Figuring out ways to assess data integrity across large data sets
• Leading the response to client - current and prospective - inquiry
• Leveraging existing contacts to stay abreast of European credit market flow
• Discussing product priorities and strategic objectives
• Sales calls and demos with prospective clients

Compensation

Competitive pay, subject to individual experience. 25 days PTO.

Work Environment

Dynamic, innovative, analytical, and collaborative.

Location

The position can offer a high degree of remote working flexibility.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.