Vice President, Private Credit

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Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

Employment Type: Employee

Exempt: Yes

Benefits:

• Company-provided healthcare
• A competitive annual leave allowance
• Flexible working options, including hybrid working arrangements
• Generous pension provisions
• Income protection
• Health and wellness benefits
• Volunteering days
• Enhanced parental leave
• Life insurance

Position Overview: We are seeking a Vice President, Private Credit to join our Invesco Senior Secured Management team in London. This role offers the opportunity to work across the full credit spectrum - from senior secured loans to high yield bonds and private credit - while taking ownership of deep sector coverage, investment analysis, and participation in complex credit situations.

Responsibilities:

• Investment Analysis & Credit Underwriting: Review and prepare credit theses for new senior secured loans, high yield bonds (fixed & floating), and middle-market private investments. Produce detailed underwriting memos, covering company/industry analysis, capital structure, cash flow projections, collateral assessment, sponsor quality, and restructuring considerations. Present comprehensive investment memos to the Investment Committee with clear theses and risk mitigants.
• Sector Coverage & Monitoring: Build in-depth knowledge across 2-3 industries and maintain coverage of issuers. Conduct ongoing monitoring, including financial analysis, cash flow modelling, industry deep-dives, rating reviews, and performance assessments. Actively generate new investment ideas within your coverage universe.
• Distressed & Secondary Opportunities: Identify secondary market opportunities. Support the team lead in workout and distressed situations.
• Market Interaction & Due Diligence: Build a strong network across the market to understand sentiment on amendments and new deals. Engage with syndicate desks, sell side analysts, and private equity sponsors on both primary and secondary opportunities. Participate in management meetings, site visits, plant tours, and expert calls.
• Risk Management & Administration: Maintain electronic credit files, compliance reporting, collateral records, and exposure tracking.

Qualifications:

• Solid experience as a credit analyst covering credits and underwriting investments in leveraged loans, high yield bonds, and direct lending.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Word.
• Bachelor's degree required; CFA preferred.
• Additional European language(s) are a plus.
• Logical thinker with the ability to 'join the dots'.
• Strong financial modelling, quantitative and qualitative analysis skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to distil key insights from large datasets.
• Highly detail-oriented with strong accuracy and follow-through.
• Self-motivated, able to multi-task and work independently.
• Proactive, solution-focused mindset with unquestionable integrity.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative working style.

Disability Confident Scheme: Applicants who opt in to the Disability Confident Scheme and meet the criteria for the role will be offered an interview. We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process for all candidates who make an application. By opting in to this scheme, applicants will be disclosing that they have a disability solely for the purpose of the Disability Confident Scheme. The Disability Confident Scheme only guarantees an interview - it does not automatically mean that applicants interviewed will gain employment with Invesco at that time. To apply through the Disability Confident Scheme, you must first apply for the role via our external careers page. Then email confirming your wish to opt in, along with your contact details and the title of the role you wish to apply for.