Analyst or Senior Analyst - Infrastructure Credit Opinion Team - Germany

Global Infrastructure and Project Finance Group is currently seeking an Analyst or Senior Analyst. 

 

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 85 analysts with backgrounds particularly in project finance, structured credits and corporate finance, 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 portfolio includes public and private ratings and credit opinions covering a variety of transaction types, including project finance, corporate finance and structured credits. The issuers include owners of airports, toll roads, ports, rail infrastructure, power plants, oil and gas facilities, renewable assets, digital infrastructure or public private partnerships. The team’s output consists mainly of annual surveillance reviews, new ratings, internal credit assessments and sector research reports which are published primarily through Fitch’s website. The senior analysts present regularly to market participants at conferences and other events.

What We Offer:

• High value for independent opinion

• Opportunity to take a lead role analyzing cutting-edge transactions

• Collaborative work environment
• Opportunity for career growth in one of the fastest growing sectors
• Great company culture with strong believe in DEI
• Hybrid working

 

We’ll Count on You To:

Fitch Ratings is seeking a credit analyst with at least 2-5 years of project finance related experience across infrastructure sectors such as Transportation, Public Private Partnerships, and Power & Renewable sectors. The primary responsibilities of the successful candidate will be to focus on the analysis of and assigning credit opinions on various infrastructure and project finance transactions.

 

Your involvement will take the form of leading the analysis for new loans and reviewing surveillance of existing rated loans on your allocated portfolio.

Specific responsibilities will include but may not be limited to the following:

 

• Undertake, as Primary Analyst, credit opinions on newly assigned transactions as well as monitoring any existing credit opinions on your allocated portfolio.  Present credit recommendations to committees.
• Interact with external parties, including asset managers, as part of the credit assessment process.
• Closely follow market developments in the relevant sectors and assessing the potential impact on the allocated loan portfolio.
• Working on credit analysis and research on new and existing EMEA 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 credit opinions, publishing credit reports, and contributing to special research reports.

 

What You Need to Have:

• Master’s degree in Finance, Business or Public Administration preferred.
• Proven project finance and infrastructure credit skills gained in a bank credit department, a rating agency, buy side credit department, etc.

• Good understanding of capital structures and financial documentation with exposure to both project finance and corporate-s