Senior Director, Global Infrastructure Group - New York

 

Senior Director, Global Infrastructure Group

 

Global Infrastructure and Project Finance Group is currently seeking a Senior Director based out of our New York, Chicago, or Toronto office.

 

The Global Infrastructure and Project Finance Group (GIG) covers approximately 700 credits primarily across transportation (airports, toll roads, seaports and rail), energy (thermal and renewable power, oil & gas and transmission), social infrastructure, sports facilities and UK whole business securitization. The group comprises approximately 90 analysts, based in Fitch’s offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, Toronto, London, Paris, Milan, Sao Paulo, Bogotá, Monterrey, Ciudad del México and Sydney.

 

This role will report into the Regional Group Head of GIG North America.

 

What We Offer:

 

Fitch Ratings is seeking a senior credit analyst with 10+ years of solid project finance related experience in the infrastructure sector. The primary responsibilities of the successful candidate will be to focus on the analysis, execution and rating of infrastructure and project finance transactions, in particular those related to transportation, digital, sports, student housing, as well as other social and alternative infrastructure assets in the US and Canada.

 

• The ability to shape the strategic course for the infrastructure team.
• Opportunity to take a leadership role analyzing some cutting-edge transactions.
• Be part of a growing credit team in the ever-evolving infrastructure space.
• A sector that is seeing significant investments resulting in a diversity of new and interesting credits on which to provide independent evaluations.
• Experienced and collaborative team and opportunity to learn about wider infrastructure space.
• Open culture where employees are able to exchange ideas and perspectives.

 

We’ll Count on You To:

 

• Work on leading ratings analysis, execution and research on new and existing North American transactions.
• Evaluating innovative credit structures and participating in global criteria development.
• Identifying relevant trends, assessing their credit impact and highlighting these trends in updated industry and market focused reports/presentations. 
• Gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and legal documents for the purpose of producing ratings, publishing credit reports, and contributing to special research reports.
• Maintain a strong external network and profile that continues to build Fitch's reputation for analytical excellence by representing Fitch in a compelling and persuasive manner at industry conferences, webinars, issuer meetings/site visits and through media communication.
• Develop and grow strong relationships with the other analytical groups at Fitch to ensure analytical consistency and efficient execution of transactions that involve multiple groups.
• Mentor junior members of the Infrastructure team. 

 

What You Need to Have:

 

• 10+ years of solid project finance related experience in infrastructure including development of credit or underwriting approach for new sectors.
• Proven project finance and infrastructure credit skills gained in a bank credit department, a rating agency, buy side credit department, etc.
• Solid writing and verbal communication skills. 
• An open mind to think expansively about the opportunity and risk in the evolving infrastructure landscape.
• Excellent modelling skills and thorough familiarity with spreadsheet-based financial models.
• Ability to read and fully comprehend co