Credit Research Analyst (Corporate Sector) - Pune / Bangalore / Gurgaon

Acuity Analytics; Bengaluru; Híbrido; INR 900.000 - 1.300.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Acuity Analytics (the trading name of Acuity Knowledge Partners) is seeking exceptionally intelligent, resourceful analysts to join the Fixed Income research team based in Bangalore. You will build credit models, analyse issuers, forecast financials, and provide independent credit opinions across global debt issuers.

The role demands strong quantitative skills, rigorous attention to detail, and the ability to communicate complex findings clearly to clients.

Formación

• MBA (Finance) with exposure to fixed income research.
• Familiarity with credit modelling and financial statement forecasting.
• CFA/FRM are an added advantage.

Responsabilidades

• Build and update credit models with KPI projections.
• Prepare credit reports and earnings updates for coverage.
• Perform issuer analysis and credit opinion writing.
• Interact with clients and manage expectations.
• Assist in improving turnaround time and efficiency.

Conocimientos

MBA (Finance)

CFA

FRM

Analytical skills

Writing skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Quantitative skills

Educación

MBA (Finance)

CFA

FRM

Descripción del empleo

Acuity Analytics (the trading name of Acuity Knowledge Partners) is a global, tech-first organisation helping financial institutions and corporates make better decisions through research, data, analytics and AI-enabled solutions. We combine deep financial services expertise with strong engineering, digital and AI capabilities to solve complex, realworld problems. With a team of 7,200+ analysts, data specialists and technologists across 28 locations, we work with more than 800 organizations worldwide to drive efficiency, unlock insight and deliver measurable impact. Our success is built on the strength of our people—by investing in talent, encouraging collaboration and creating room to grow, we enable our teams to do their best work for clients. Acuity became an independent business in 2019 following its acquisition from Moody’s Corporation by Equistone Partners Europe. In 2023, funds advised by global private equity firm Permira acquired a majority stake, with Equistone remaining a minority investor—supporting our continued growth and innovation.

For more information, visit www.acuityanalytics.com

Basic Information

Position Title: Credit Research

Experience Level: 4 + years

Department: Buy-side Investment Research

Location: Bangalore / Pune / Gurgaon - (Hybrid for all the locations)

Job Description:

We are seeking exceptionally intelligent, resourceful, and self-motivated individuals to be part of our Fundamental Credit Research team. The team resides within Investment Research and responsible for providing research and opinion related to fixed income securities globally. The research process involves analysis of the debt instrument issuers, including financial ratio analysis, financial forecasting of issuer’s financial statements, scenario analysis, capital structure, issuer profiling, peer comparison, evaluation of fundamental credit strength and issuing credit opinion on the issuers and specific debt issues. The individual will be part of the Fixed Income team based out of Bangalore. The team covers a wide variety of fixed income instrument issuers spanning across global, sectors and asses classes.

The primary responsibilities include:

• Building and updating detailed credit models including KPI based projections, debt capital structure analysis, covenant analysis, distressed debt analysis and recovery analysis,
• Preparing credit reports, even update, real time earnings on companies under coverage
• Ability to perform Rising star and fallen angel analysis
• Providing opinion and rating recommendation on the issuers
• Experience in giving bond recommendation and performing relative valuation
• Responsible for client interaction and managing client expectations
• Experience in writing analytical reports and earnings conference call summaries
• Work experience in working on HY and DD debt is desirable
• Prepare and implement checklist, dashboard, quality control tools
• Provides input and ideas for improvement in TAT and efficiency

Core Skills Required

• MBA (Finance) with experience in building FIC models, writing initiations and real time earnings summaries. CFA and FRM is an added advantage
• Excellent analytical skills, good writing & communication skills
• Demonstrates a very high degree of Initiative, self-leadership, and entrepreneurship
• Job requires extremely high level of attention to detail, meticulousness and accountability
• Strong quantitative, analytical and interpretive skills
• Abide by TAT and improve customer satisfaction over the period

Acuity Analytics has earned several prestigious industry recognitions, including Great Place to Work® certifications in India and Costa Rica, AVTAR Best Companies for Women in India, the AVTAR Most Inclusive Companies Index, and silver accreditation in the Workplace Equality Index. These accolades reflect our commitment to building an inclusive, supportive and high-performance workplace for our people. Learn more here.

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Must have hands-on experience in credit analysis of corporate sector, specifically U.S. and European market, with a strong hands-on experience in financial modeling from scratch and projection.