EEMEA Corporate Credit Research Analyst London, England
Job description
Corporate Research Credit Analyst EEMEA
London
This role is deemed as a Certified role under the PRA & UK Financial Conduct Authority - Individual Accountabilities Regulations and may require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications or the minimum qualifications to meet internal company benchmarks.
As a Barclays Research Corporate Credit Analyst EEMEA, you will be a part of Fundamental Credit Research EEMEA team, responsible for analysing the credit strength of investment grade and high yield corporate bond issuers in emerging markets. You will be responsible for making investment recommendations and producing thematic research that is distributed to external clients, as well as collaborating with internal business partners.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
What will you be doing?
- Being responsible for providing impactful analysis and recommendations on corporate credit issuers in the EEMEA region, including in GCC, Turkey and other geographies, as appropriate
- Conducting balance sheet, earnings and cash flow analysis to assess fundamental trends in corporate issuers and their industries, including building and maintaining financial models
- You will be responsible for evaluating financial documentation including annual/quarterly reports, current events, and debt covenant packages
- Providing fundamentally sound recommendations on bonds of corporate issuers in the EEMEA region based on the analysis of the above documentation
- Being responsible for maintaining financial models, relative value spreadsheets and investor presentations
- You will be responsible for collecting and monitoring economic data of the overall industry, and understanding the direction of market trends
- Being responsible for generating credit research on companies in the EEMEA region, plus other corporate coverage areas as directed
- You will be responsible for generating thematic research, including analysis of ESG profiles of companies in the region
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant subject area
- Previous experience as corporate research analyst either on sell-side or buy-side with excellent knowledge and understanding of companies and countries in the EEMEA region
- Experience in producing written research, analysis of corporate credit and securities, formation of investment recommendations, relative value analysis and trade ideas
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills required given the high level of interaction with a wide variety of clients
Skills that will help you in the role:
- Experience using Bloomberg to access pricing data and monitor economic trends
- Knowledge of languages of the EEMEA region (e.g. Arabic, French, Turkish, Russian, etc.) will be a plus
Where will you be working?
In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as; a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.
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