Lead Analyst - Credit Analysis of Corporates

You will work with a team of onshore analysts to cover the credit portfolio of corporates in UAE, GCC, and international markets. Your responsibilities will include preparing opinion-based credit reports and financial models based on fundamental analysis for a set of assigned credits/companies. The credit assessment process will involve researching and analyzing entities, assessing their credit strengths and weaknesses, weighing their business and financial risk profile, and considering potential sovereign or parent support. Your tasks will also involve preparing detailed credit assessment reports, discussing company profiles, and analyzing credit risk considerations. Additionally, you will be responsible for creating and updating detailed financial models, conducting financial analysis, capital structure analysis, calculating key credit quality determinants, financial projections (up to 7 years), determining and recommending ratings based on the internal rating framework and methodology. Regular interaction with clients to discuss reports and workflow, supporting clients with ad-hoc research requests, engaging with client teams proactively, suggesting new ideas to enhance client engagement, and training new hires and mentoring juniors in the team are also part of your responsibilities. In terms of functional and behavioral knowledge, you should have experience in deal financial modeling, surveillance, portfolio monitoring, and credit analysis. A good understanding of banking regulations, calculation of key credit metrics, capital ratios, and banks" internal systems is essential. You will be expected to identify and resolve complex research issues and team problems, as well as assisting in solving complex problems related to financial modeling. Interactions will involve working within your team, interacting with other related teams, and communicating with internal and external clients and/or issuers as necessary. Additionally, you will be responsible for mentoring and managing a small team, impacting the quality and effectiveness of your own team.,