at Fitch Inc in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
At Fitch, we have an open culture where employees are able to exchange ideas and perspectives, throughout the organization, irrespective of their seniority. Your voice will be heard allowing you to have a real impact. We embrace diversity and appreciate authenticity encouraging an environment where employees can be their true selves. Our inclusive and progressive approach helps us to keep a balanced perspective. Fitch is also committed to supporting its employees by advancing conversations around diversity, equity and inclusion. Fitch's Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) have been established by employees who have joined together as a workplace community based on similar backgrounds or life experiences. Fitch's ERGs are available to connect employees with others within the organization to offer professional and personal support.
With our expertise, we are not only creating data and information, but also producing timely insights from every angle to influence decision making in this ever changing and highly competitive market. We have a relentless hunger to innovate and unlock the power of human insights and to drive value for our customers. There has never been a better time to make an impact and we invite you to join us on this journey.
Associate Director, Energy and Industrials - Global Infrastructure Group
Global Infrastructure and Project Finance Group is currently seeking an Associate Director based out of our Chicago office.
The Global Infrastructure and Project Finance Group (GIG) covers approximately 550 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 70 analysts, based in Fitch's offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, London, Paris, Milan, Sao Paulo, Bogot, Monterrey, Ciudad del Mxico and Sydney.
What We Offer:
Fitch Ratings is seeking a senior credit analyst with at least 7-10 years of solid project finance related experience in the energy sector. 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 Wind, Liquified Natural Gas (LNG), Solar, and Transmission among other energy sectors in the US and Canada.
- Opportunity to take a lead role analyzing some cutting-edge transactions.
- Be part of a growing credit team in the ever-evolving infrastructure space.
- A sector that is seeing significant investments resulting in a diversity of new and interesting credits to provide independent evaluations on.
- Experienced and collaborative team and opportunity to learn about wider infrastructure space.
- Open culture where employees are able to exchange ideas and perspectives.
We'll Count on You To:
- Work on ratings analysis and research on new and existing North American transactions.
- Evaluating innovative credit structures and participating in global criteria development.
- Identifying relevant trends, assessing their credit impact and highlighting these trends in updated industry and market focused reports/presentations.
- Gathering and analyzing 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,...
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