Credit Research Analyst

Alcentra is owned by Franklin Templeton, a dynamic firm that spans asset management, wealth management, and fintech, giving us many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. With clients in over 150 countries and offices on six continents, you’ll get exposed to different cultures, people, and business development happening around the world.

Alcentra operates independently as a Specialist Investment Manager and is headquartered in London, with offices in New York, Boston, Tokyo and Hong Kong. We are a leading, global asset management firm specializing in the sub-investment grade debt markets, experts in credit management, private credit, and structured credit strategies. Our investors include pension funds, insurance companies, government agencies, banks, wealth managers and high net worth individuals.

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Founded in 2002, Alcentra is one of the largest European headquartered credit and private debt managers, with over $35 billion of assets under management and global expertise in Senior Secured Loans, High Yield Bonds, Private Credit, Structured Credit, Special Situations and Multi-Strategy credit. Alcentra focus their skills on the sub-investment grade debt capital markets in Europe and the U.S. Alcentra’s objective is to deliver strong, risk-adjusted returns that are less correlated, through a complementary suite of traditional and alternative credit strategies. In pursuing this objective, the investment strategy and approach to credit selection are based on intensive fundamental research and credit analysis, combined with active portfolio management to minimize credit losses. Alcentra is a wholly owned subsidiary of Franklin Resources, Inc. that, together with its various subsidiaries, operates as Franklin Templeton.

What is the Credit Research Analyst responsible for?

We are looking for a motivated, detail-oriented individual to join the liquid credit research team as an associate. Liquid credit research covers the leveraged loan and high yield bond markets, primarily in Europe. The ideal candidate will be collaborative and able to support multiple senior analysts in evaluating credit risk of existing investments, as well as potential new investment opportunities. A robust understanding of financial statements is a must, and financial modelling skills are required. Beyond modelling, the role will also entail other forms of due diligence, including summarizing and analyzing earnings results, interacting with management teams, and synthesizing third party research, including sell side and rating agency research. Overall, the analyst will play a key role helping the research team evaluate, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the credit risk of our investments in leveraged loans and high yield bonds.

What are the ongoing responsibilities of Credit Research Analyst?

Financial model construction and maintenance

Collaboration with senior analysts to diligence existing and potential investments utilizing all available resources: Bloomberg, 3rd party research, expert networks, etc.

Understanding and analyzing credit terms and documents

Analysis of relative value and comparable transaction analysis, including creation and maintenance of standardized relative value comparison tables

Construction of credit papers for presentation to Alcentra Investment Committee(s)

General industry analysis on assigned sector(s)

What ideal qualifications, skills & experience would help someone to be successful? 

2-3 years of experience analyzing financial statements, ideally with a leveraged finance / credit focus

MBA from a premier business school, and CFA progress a plus

Ability to work independently, and handle multiple tasks

Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills

Job Level - Individual Contributor

Work Shift Timings - 2:00 PM - 11:00 PM IST

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