Job Description

Description About this role  Role description:This is a Vice President position within the Fundamental Credit team. The candidate will report to The EMEA Head of Research and work closely with the portfolio managers in assessing credit opportunities. The candidate will be responsible for rigorous credit-orientated fundamental research across the corporate capital structure and monitoring investments for High Yield, Leveraged Loan and Long/Short Credit portfolios.Responsibilities:Conduct fundamental credit research across the corporate capital structure.Cover one or several industry sectors, analysing and explaining economic, competitive and political drivers that impact a borrower's credit quality and assessing relative value.Contribute trade ideas and discuss them with the portfolio managers, participate in relative value and trade structuring discussions.Interact with management teams, industry sources, other analysts, sell-side analysts, and other investment professionals.Assimilate and filter various sources of information to develop long term, well-researched investment theses on credits, sectors and issuers.Create historical and projected financial models, analyse key financial and operational metrics, develop deep valuation.Communicate credit opinions and investment recommendations orally and in writing to Portfolio Managers, other analysts, credit and advisory committees and external clients.Proven experience of identifying profitable investment opportunities based on extensive fundamental research on leveraged issuers in European credit market