Associate Director - GIG - Mexico

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Associate Director – GIG – Mexico

Fitch LATAM GIG is seeking an Associate Director based out of our Monterrey or Mexico City office.  

Fitch Ratings is seeking a senior credit analyst with at least 5-7 years of solid project finance related experience, ideally in the transportation, energy or public infrastructure sectors. The primary responsibilities of the successful candidate will be to focus on the analysis and rating of infrastructure and project finance transactions, in particular those related to the Transportation and Energy Sectors in Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru and other Latin American countries.

What We Offer:

• The Global Infrastructure and Project Finance Group (aka GIG) covers approximately 800 credits primarily across transportation (airports, toll roads, seaports and rail), energy (thermal and renewable power, oil & gas and transmission), social infrastructure, sports facilities and UK whole business securitization.
• The group comprises approximately 80 analysts, based in Fitch’s offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, London, Madrid, Milan, Sao Paulo, Bogota, Monterrey, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney.
• The position has high visibility and solid growth potential. The Latin American group covers around 180 public and private issuers, including project finance 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:

• Master’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics or Public Administration preferred. 
• Proven project finance and infrastructure credit skills gained in a bank credit department, a rating agency, buy side credit department, infrastructure funds or companies, etc., in Mexico or other Latin American countries.
• 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.
• Solid writing and verbal communication skills in English and Spanish. Portuguese will be a plus.

What Would Make You Stand Out:

• An MBA or Master degree
• Experience in several countries of the Latin American region.

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.

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

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