Associate Director

Associate Director – IPF – Colombia

Fitch LATAM IPF is seeking an Associate Director based out of our Bogota office.

Fitch Ratings is seeking a senior credit analyst with up to 3 years of solid public finance related experience, ideally in the local and regional gorvernment and public sector entities. The primary responsibilities of the successful candidate will be to focus on the analysis and rating of public sector transactions, in particular those located in Colombia and other Latin American countries.

What We Offer:

• The International Public Finance team (IPF) covers approximately 900 credits primarily across local and regional governments and a large and variated government related entities (Healthcare and Hospitals, Higher Education Entities, Urban Transport, Urban Development, Housing, National Strategic Holding Companies, NonProfit Entities, amongst others).
• The IPF team comprises approximately 80 analysts, based in Fitch’s offices in Europe, China and Latin America (Sao Paulo, Bogota, Monterrey and Mexico City).
• The position has high visibility and solid growth potential. The Latin American group covers around 230 public and private issuers and transactions. 

We’ll Count on You To:

• Work on ratings analysis and research on new and existing Latin American transactions.
• Evaluate innovative credit structures and participate in global criteria development.
• Identify relevant trends, assessing their credit impact and highlighting these trends in updated industry and market focused reports/presentations.
• Gather and analyze quantitative and qualitative data and legal documents for the purpose of producing ratings, publishing credit reports, and contributing to special research reports.
• In conjunction with senior members of the team, the candidate will meet with senior management of entities and/or project sponsors, investment bankers and financial advisors, to produce these ratings and reports for general publication.

What You Need to Have:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Economics or Public Administration preferred. 
• Proven credit rating skills gained in a bank credit department, a rating agency, infrastructure funds or corporations, etc.
• Excellent modelling skills and thorough familiarity with spreadsheet-based financial models. 
• Ability to read and fully comprehend complex project & debt documents 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.

What Would Make You Stand Out:

• Some managerial experience is desirable.
• Good writing and verbal communication skills in English. Portuguese will be a plus.

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.

Fitch Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

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