Credit Analyst, Senior Director - Global Infrastructure Group - New York

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Credit Analyst, Senior Director - Global Infrastructure Group – New York

Fitch Global Infrastructure Group is currently seeking a Senior Director based out of our New York office.

 

The Global Infrastructure and Project Finance Group (GIG) covers approximately 650 credits across transportation, power & energy, social, digital and water infrastructure, as well as sports facilities and UK whole business securitization. The group comprises approximately 80 analysts, based in Fitch’s offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, London, Milan, Toronto, Sao Paulo, Dubai, Madrid, Monterrey, Ciudad del México, Singapore, and Sydney.

 

The primary responsibilities of the successful candidate will be to lead the analysis of infrastructure and project finance transactions, in particular relating to emerging infrastructure sectors and alternative/core+ infrastructure, in addition to complex transportation and energy sectors in the US and Canada.

 

What We Offer:

• This role will have the opportunity to take a lead role analyzing cutting-edge infrastructure transactions and be part of a growing credit team in the ever-evolving infrastructure space.
• An exciting time to work in GIG as significant investments in the infrastructure space are resulting in a diversity of new and interesting projects to work on. 
• The position has high visibility and solid growth potential. The GIG North America group covers over 300 public and private issuers in the US and Canada.

We’ll Count on You To:

• Work on ratings analysis and research on new and existing North American transactions.
• Evaluate innovative credit structures and participate in global rating criteria development.
• Identify and research relevant trends, assessing their credit impact and highlighting these trends in updated industry and market focused reports/presentations.
• Gather and analyze 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 including development of credit or underwriting approach for new sectors.
• Proven project finance and infrastructure credit skills gained in a bank credit department, rating agency, buy side credit department, financial guarantor, etc.
• Solid writing and verbal communication skills.
• Thorough familiarity with spreadsheet-based financial models.
• Ability to read and fully comprehend complex struc