Associate/Senior Associate - Credit Research

You will be joining a team that directly serves the front offices of global asset managers as a Senior Associate in Linedata's Research team. Your role will involve working closely with Portfolio Managers and Senior Research Professionals, providing fundamental research support to buy-side clients. The scope of your responsibilities will cover various aspects of investment research, including initiating and maintaining analysis on the coverage universe, understanding macroeconomic and sectoral trends, tracking corporate events, reviewing the work of co-members, training and mentoring junior analysts, and more. Proactively engaging with different stakeholders to ensure informed and timely investment decision-making by clients is also a key part of your role. You are expected to take complete ownership of the deliverables and demonstrate utmost integrity and commitment. Your responsibilities will include providing investment research support to global asset managers investing in credit instruments, initiating and maintaining multiple deliverables such as financial models, screeners, and research notes for the companies/industries under coverage. You will conduct detailed capital structure and covenant analysis, prepare earnings summaries, credit outlook, and writeups on investment pros and cons for companies under coverage. Effective communication of ideas and research findings to clients, managing multiple clients and stakeholders, prioritizing and executing multiple assignments with tight deadlines, training junior analysts, and ensuring adherence to high-quality standards and industry best practices are also part of your responsibilities. The skills required for this role include sound experience in credit research (6-8 years), exposure to US/European capital markets, deep understanding of capital/corporate structure and various debt documents, experience in writing reports, strong excel modeling and analytical skills with attention to detail, ability to independently execute assignments under tight deadlines, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and being a team player with a professional demeanor. Knowledge of third-party databases such as Bloomberg, CapIQ, Thomson Reuters, etc., would be advantageous. The academic requirements for this role include an MBA or equivalent qualification in finance from a reputed institution or a CFA certification.,