CLO & Private Credit News Reporter

Content Creators; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Job summary

Octus, a rapidly growing tech-powered financial news and data company, seeks motivated reporters to expand coverage of primary leveraged finance markets and private credit. Ideal candidates are curious, self-motivated and have debt capital markets writing experience.

Applicants should be able to build connections with market participants, work well in a fast-paced newsroom, and contribute to a collaborative, multicultural team environment. Salary range and discretionary bonus apply.

Qualifications

• Basic understanding of and experience writing about debt capital markets.
• Interest in credit, structured/private credit, and LP formation.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; self-motivated; ability to multitask in a fast-paced newsroom.
• Write clearly and concisely under deadline pressure and derive trends from issuance and market patterns.
• Passion for obtaining scoops through outreach and cultivation of sources among highly sophisticated market participants.
• The candidate must be collaborative and enjoy working in a multicultural team environment.

Responsibilities

• Help build out Octus' coverage of CLO formation and Private Credit/Direct Lending transactions
• Develop and maintain rapport with key CLO asset managers, arrangers and investors in the debt capital markets
• Identify and report on new trends and developments in CLOs, leveraged finance, and private credit
• Collaborate with financial and legal analysts, and other reporters across multiple sectors

Skills

Debt capital markets

Credit / private credit

Interpersonal skills

Multitasking

Deadline writing

Scoop cultivation

Collaboration

Job description

Octus, a rapidly growing tech-powered financial news and data company, seeks motivated reporters to expand coverage of primary leveraged finance markets and private credit. Ideal candidates are curious, self-motivated and have debt capital markets writing experience.

Applicants should be able to build connections with market participants, work well in a fast-paced newsroom, and contribute to a collaborative, multicultural team environment. Salary range and discretionary bonus apply.