Exciting opportunity to join this high profile organisation in the well established Structured Finance team.
The position is at Director level with a key focus on strengthening the team's output by producing insightful commentary on a variety of European structured finance sectors.
Responsibilities:
CMBS/Structured Finance research.
Guide junior team members in collection, analysis and synthesis of relevant data.
Produce leading edge commentary pieces for external publication.
Support surveillance analysts in the publication of articles.
Liaise with internal and external stakeholders.
Take an active role in outreach campaigns, targeting investors in structured finance securities.
Present research at industry conferences and/or in-house seminars.
Build and maintain relationships within the structured finance group and beyond.
Mentor junior research and surveillance analysts in their role as producers of written publications.
Identify own learning and development needs for current and future development.
Requirements:
Extensive professional experience in financial markets, with the majority in a securitization-related role.
Understanding of major structured finance asset classes (ABS, CMBS, RMBS, CDO).
Extensive experience in research, preferably in a professional, customer-facing role, or possibly academic.
Ability to identify and distil patterns and trends.
Independence and ability to form and express a view.
Fluency in written English.
Ability to write creative, high impact, and professional articles.
Professional experience of writing for an external audience is desirable.
Confident and flexible team player.
Strong oral and written presentation skills.
Analytically strong and highly numerate.
Solid understanding of credit analysis.
Ability to graphically present data.
Understanding of securitisation credit and cash flow modelling.
Awareness of statistical techniques.
Data manipulation skills, e.g. advanced MS Excel and/or Access.
