Associate Director Corporate, Infrastructure and Project finance

Associate Director –  Corporate, Infrastructure and Project finance – Colombia

The Latin American Corporates and Infrastructure team is currently seeking an Associate Director based out of our Bogotá office.

What We Offer:

• An opportunity to act as a lead coverage analyst at a global rating agency.
• A collaborative, team-oriented work environment.
• Fitch Ratings is a global company with a presence in over 30 countries, offering opportunities to work with diverse teams and clients from around the world.

We’ll Count on You To:

• Lead and monitor new and existing corporate and project finance ratings, acting as a Primary or Secondary Analyst in accordance with Fitch’s criteria and processes.
• Conduct in-depth credit analysis of issuers and transactions, including financial, qualitative and legal information, with particular focus on energy-sector and project finance-related credits. 
• Conduct issuer, sector and market research, including macroeconomic and microeconomic and peer analysis, to support rating decisions. 
• Produce rating reports, committee materials, market commentary and special research for publication
• Participate actively in rating committees, providing independent and well supported credit views.
• Build and maintain active relationships with issuers, project sponsors, investment bankers, financial advisers and other relevant market participants. 

What You Need to Have:

• A minimum of five years of solid, relevant credit experience, ideally gained at a credit rating agency, bank or investment bank, consulting or accounting firm, credit-research organization, buy-side credit team, or structuring and advisory firm.
• A bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Accounting or another business-related discipline.
• Experience in project finance and/or corporate credit analysis or the energy sector is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze corporates in depth for the purpose of assigning credit ratings, with a strong understanding of both qualitative and quantitative corporate risk.
• Financial-modelling capability and familiarity with spreadsheet-based financial models.
• Solid writing and verbal communication skills in Spanish AND English.

What Would Make You Stand Out:

• Portuguese language skills.
• CFA candidate at any level; or CFA charter holder.
• Ability to read and fully comprehend complex structures and to ask probing questions to issuers and their advisers.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and display a strong degree of flexibility to take on additional responsibilities, as required.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the confidence to communicate clearly with internal and external stakeholders.

Why Fitch?

At Fitch Group, the combined power of our global perspectives is what differentiates us. Our global network of colleagues comes together to accomplish things greater than they ever could alone.

Every team member is essential to our business and each perspective is critical to our success. We embrace a diverse culture that encourages a free exchange of ideas, guaranteeing your voice will be heard and your work will have an impact, regardless of seniority.

We are building incredible things at Fitch and we invite you to join us on our journey.

Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Wholly owned by the Hearst Corporation, we are comprised of three main businesses: Fitch Ratings | Fitch Solutions | Fitch Learning.

For more information please visit our websites:  

www.fitchratings.com | www.fitchsolutions.com | www.fitchlearning.com

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch’s credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interests or any appearance of a conflict of interest. Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will be asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts prior to commencing employment. If you, or your immediate family, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.

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