Responsibilities
- We are recruiting for a Research Analyst to join our team. This is a great opportunity for someone who has experience, gained within a buy‑side asset manager, sell‑side investment bank, or credit rating agency. This role would ideally suit someone in the early stages of their career
- This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated Analyst to develop their career within a high‑performing research environment
- As the team continues to grow, we are seeking individuals with either emerging market corporate or developed market sovereign research experience to join the Global Sovereign and Emerging Markets Corporate research team
- In this role, you will take ownership of fundamental credit research, producing robust bottom‑up credit views and generating investment recommendations across the fixed income platform
- You will undertake in‑depth analysis of issuers to form clear and well‑supported investment opinions, supported by developing and maintaining financial models, including sensitivity, scenario, and stress testing, to assess credit risk
- You will be responsible for producing written research, assigning ratings and outlooks, and identifying trade opportunities across your coverage
- Alongside this, you will monitor credit developments and provide timely updates, ensuring insights remain current and relevant
- Collaboration will be key, as you will work closely with broader fixed income research teams, portfolio managers, and ESG colleagues to incorporate both financial and non‑financial considerations
- The role also involves presenting issuer views at internal forums, contributing to team discussions, and communicating effectively with stakeholders
- In addition, you will build and maintain relationships with issuers, sell‑side analysts, banks, and industry experts to strengthen insights and challenge assumptions
Qualifications
- Confidence to challenge constructively
- Strong fundamental analysis, including a demonstratable process for assessing credits
- Experience producing clear written recommendations and communicating views succinctly to investment stakeholders
- Experience integrating ESG or non‑financial risk into credit conclusions (or strong interest in doing so)
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across functions
- In this role you’ll be “Certified” under the Financial Conduct Authority / Prudential Regulation Authority’s Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR). This means that we’ll need to complete some regulatory background checks on you before you take up your role and we’ll need to ask you some questions on an annual basis to make sure you remain “fit and proper” and competent to carry out your role. We’ll provide training on what holding a SMCR role means when you join us and annually thereafter
