OCTUS

Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. Since 2013, tens of thousands of professionals across hedge fund, investment banking, management consulting, and law firm verticals have come to rely on Octus to make better, faster, and more confident decisions in pace with the fast-moving credit markets.
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REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum of 5+ years of credit research experience from buy side, sell side, or rating agency, with significant time spent in either a client-facing or decision-making role
• Experience should include leading coverage and monitoring of credits and sectors and experience with primary market/new issues and legal documentation and/or identifying distressed debt opportunities, building cash flow projections, recovery estimates, and experience with restructuring proceedings and legal documentation
• Experience in building and maintaining financial and valuation models
• Possess very strong technical and analytical skills as well as excellent written and oral communication abilities

ROLE

We are looking for experienced credit analysts who are keen to work on the US leverage loan situations across lifecycle. The senior analyst will be a key leader and driving force within a team of twelve analysts covering both performing and distressed credits, shaping coverage and helping train and develop junior analysts.
We are seeking senior analysts with experience on primary and performing credit coverage or distressed debt and restructuring coverage. The senior analysts will be responsible for publishing credit research reports with actionable investment ideas, focusing on fundamental credit analysis, relative value analysis, and valuation.
The role provides the opportunity to collaborate with our lawyers and other groups in generating cross-disciplinary research and analysis for our subscribers, which include top institutional asset managers, hedge funds, investment banks, trading desks, and financial and legal advisors. The role involves a high degree of client interaction.

What we offer:

• Senior role with a team of experienced, passionate analysts who you will work alongside, to develop best-in-class, in depth credit analysis that will be published to the leveraged finance market, including institutional investors, law firms and investment banks
• Generous benefits packages
• Flexible remote work opportunity
• Fast growth environment with progression opportunities

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure coverage of a portfolio of US performing leveraged loan borrowers across different stages of lifecycle and lead primary analysis work
• Conduct fundamental credit analysis, relative value analysis and build forward looking valuation models with an aim of producing actionable investment ideas for our subscribers
• As a senior member of the team, you will also be expected to generate coverage ideas and to maintain an active dialogue with industry contacts. You will get direct exposure to the buy side, sell side and various advisors on a daily basis
• Get involved in training and mentoring other junior analysts in the team
• Follow industry trends in the broader market to help guide coverage
• Support and collaborate with our top-tier legal analysts highlight Reorg’s value add in topical credit situations