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Private Credit Analyst (Colombia or Argentina) Jobs in Latin America at Crisil
Title: Private Credit Analyst (Colombia or Argentina)
Company: Crisil
Location: Latin America
About CRISIL Limited:
- CRISIL is a leading, agile and innovative global analytics company driven by its mission of making markets function better.
- It has delivered independent opinions, actionable insights, and efficient solutions to over 100,000 customers through businesses that operate from India, the US, the UK, Argentina, Colombia, Poland, China, Hong Kong and Singapore.
- It is majority owned by S&P Global Inc, a leading provider of transparent and independent ratings, benchmarks, analytics and data to the capital and commodity markets worldwide.
The Crisil Analyst will work for one Crisil client: a Private Debt Fund specialized in LBOs and leveraged loans for middle market companies in the US with over $17B AUM.
Role
The Credit analyst will be in charge of monitoring (private) portfolio companies' performance and sharing insights with the US-based Associates and Credit Committee through comprehensive credit reports. The individual will be in constant communication with Investment Associates. The analyst will be required to build financial forecasts to assess the company’s cash flow generation for Liquidity and Solvency analyses.
- Work with a team of Account Managers covering private corporates, and assisting them in their investment decision
- Interacting with management of companies under the portfolio for seeking additional information and presenting the investment opinion of the company
- Preparing financial models including calculations of key credit quality determinants, and demonstrating strong proficiency with excel, financial models, financial data, and financial statement analysis
- Structuring & underwriting loans by analyzing revenue model, value proposition, industry & customers dynamics, investment attributes, risk & mitigants, historical & projected financials
- Preparing opinionated credit reports based on fundamental analysis for a set of assigned credits/companies
- Making recommendations to the senior credit committee for deal approval
- Regularly interacting with Account Managers to discuss deliverables, credits and deals
- Preparing thematic presentations and industry decks, such as those highlighting key sector trends, emerging risks, or potential turnaround candidates
- Close monitoring of the assigned portfolio
- Support the client with any other ad-hoc research requests
- Engage with client teams proactively and suggest new ideas to enhance client engagement
Candidate Profile
- Background in conducting credit analysis of corporates with exposure to Healthcare, Software, Technology and Digital infrastructure will be preferred. Should be able to independently create, update and forecast financial models
- Strong knowledge of fundamental credit analysis with an ability recommend opinion based and actionable investment recommendation
- Good understanding of covenant analysis, capital structure analysis and recovery analysis
- Independent and decisive mindset
- Critical thinking skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Good awareness of global financial and macroeconomic trends
Essential Qualifications
- 3 years of experience, preferably in buy side credit research or credit rating
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to Healthcare, Digital Infrastructure OR Software industry
- Exposure to Private company research will be preferred
- Familiarity with data sources e.g. FactSet, Bloomberg, Morningstar, Reuters, CapitalIQ
