Associate Director Fund Finance

**Associate Director Fund Finance**:

- London, United Kingdom
- Ratings
- 317822

**Job Description**:
**About The Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**:
12

**The Team / The Business**: As Associate Director you will be working across Fund Finance Team with colleagues based across London, Paris, Dublin, Madrid and Milan. You will report to the Analytical Manager FI and AIFs. The team is part of EMEA Structured Finance, Sovereign and Financial Services Group.

**The Impact**: The successful applicant will enhance our ability to efficiently and effectively serve our clients by demonstrating outstanding analytical excellence and the capacity to provide relevant, insightful and compelling analysis.

**The Career Opportunity**: You will get to work in a dynamic team environment and work with a team of professional specialists. You can deepen and broaden your insight and knowledge in one of the leading credit ratings’ companies in the world. This role provides a great opportunity to be exposed to a range of markets and asset types.

**Your Skills**: Bachelor degree is required and possibly completed or pursuing post graduate studies/CFA. You must have good attention to detail and numerical skills, and an ability to synthesize and interpret large volumes of data. You have good English writing skills to prepare professional analyses and reports. An understanding of securitization and financial markets and prior exposure to Fund Finance / CDOs will be important. You are a proactive individual who has a willingness to learn attitude and an analytical mind-set.

Advanced skills in python and/or R and an additional language is a positive.

**What’s in it for you**: Alternative Investment Funds is an important growing sector of the capital markets and is a key funding source and growth driver for many areas of the economy. You will be exposed to various types of fund finance and novel structures and collateral types. If you are interested in helping to facilitate this growth while challenging yourself in a fast-paced environment, this is the right position for you. It offers the opportunity to work in a collegial culture with great potential for professional development and career growth. To succeed, you must be comfortable with quantitative analysis and have a knack for problem solving.

**Responsibilities**
- Ownership of a portfolio of credits, mainly AIFs.
- Independently preparing and presenting analysis and recommendations to credit committees.
- Review and run cash flow models, analyze data and review documentation
- Conducting analysis on novel complicated Fund Finance transactions with appropriate risk factor identification, measurement, and presentation
- Acting proactively as a member in ratings committees and in the team
- Undertake research in support of S&P Global Ratings published commentaries
- Understand and implement S&P’s Policies
- Take the lead on special projects within the Fund Finance as appropriate

**Experience and Qualifications**
- Relevant industry experience in Securitization and/or CLO or credit analysis or related analytical fields.
- 6-10 years of analytical work experience in the Fund Finance / Structured Finance space
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Experience in managing and interpreting data for analytical purposes
- Solid analytical capability, team player and has good time management skills
- Able to multi-task and meet projects with a tight time frame
- Self-starter and proactive attitude and effective team player.
- Ability to work under tight deadlines in a fast-changing, global and regulated environment
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Fluent in English.

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**About S&P Global Ratings**
At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction. By bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, we enable growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions.

S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.

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