Job Description

Role/Responsibilities :
The Associate role provides a range of analytical support services that contributes to the overall credit analysis function performed by the Structured Finance Line of Business. Prospective candidates will have good exposure to capital markets, fixed income in particular and a general understanding of securitization. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate their ability to work effectively in a team environment. The ideal candidate for this role will possess strong organizational skills, demonstrate attention to detail, and enjoy working in a collaborative team environment. The Associate position provides a unique opportunity to foster skills that are valuable to any future career in the financial services industry. This will be an internally facing role, reporting into the Team Manager.
Key Responsibilities

• Perform preliminary analysis to support ratings, research, analytical outreach: Examples of analytical work include
• Data analysis for underlying loans such as residential, commercial mortgages etc. Identify trends/deviations in data and use analytical ability to form well thought out credit conclusions
• Data analytics to support thematic research
• Develop working knowledge of Moody\xe2\x80\x99s methodologies to support various analyses
• Demonstrate the ability to understand and identify key factors that affect issuer credit ratings under full supervision and guidance from the team manager.
• Support monitoring/surveillance of issuers by e.g. preparing data for surveillance, periodically updating preliminary components of analysis
• Perform certain routine administrative and other ad-hoc tasks

• Minimum graduate degree required
• Post graduate degree in finance, economics, mathematics or any other related discipline.
• Experience of 1-2 years at least
• Relevant experience in a credit/financial institution will be beneficial
• Attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple on-going tasks