Credit Analyst - 7915

The Role:
We are recruiting for a credit analyst position (contract) for Debtwire and Credit Rubric (part of ION Analytics), leveraged finance data services. The team provides credit analytics and unique insights, including detailed analysis of financial statements, profitability, liquidity, recent events, along with valuation, legal & covenant analyses; on high yield, stressed and distressed companies in North America and EMEA. Successful candidates will have a good knowledge of accountancy and finance through their degree course, with working knowledge of automation and coding in python and understanding of AI tools and data visualization tools such as PowerBI.  Analyst will receive leveraged finance credit training and have a chance to learn about corporate credit markets and financial analysis. Analyst would have to stay up to date with industry trends, regulatory changes, and market dynamics. The nature of the job is intellectually engaging, with strong analytical and critical thinking abilities, crucial for success in any career. The role is based in Mumbai with a normal day shift, 10am to 6pm.  This is a contract position.

Key Responsibilities

• Enter borrowers quarterly financial statements, key performance indicators into spreadsheets and databases.
• Use AI tools wherever possible to automate data collection.
• Enter new borrower lending terms and key credit statistics into database.
• Monitor and learn about 35-40 companies in one or two industry/sectors.
• Read and analyse quarterly & annual reports and extract relevant information.
• Work on, or assist with, various weekly, monthly, quarterly, credit reports and/or special reports, including data reports and ad-hoc projects.

Required Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Accounting: Ability to read and understand financial accounts. Thorough understanding of financial statements; income statement, balance sheet and cash flows.
• Finance: Basic understanding of debt and equity securities.
• Automation and Coding: Have knowledge and understanding of current AI tools, working knowledge of Python, SQL and PowerBI, with ability to use them to automate wherever possible, including data scrapping, cleaning, storing, and visualizing the same using PowerBI or other tools.
• English language: Excellent written English and ability to read fast and comprehend information, including financial and legal terminology.
• Writing skills: Good writing skills, with ability to build thesis and articulate a report in a structured way.
• Excel: Comprehensive knowledge of Excel and ability to use Excel formulas.
• Attention to detail: Job requires attention to detail and high levels of concentration.
• Teamwork: Reliable, helpful and a good team member with ability to work in a team-based environment, with a sense of teamwork and cooperation.
• Deadline: Ability to manage workflow under strict deadlines.

About us
We’re a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. More than 40% of the world’s largest companies use our solutions. Founded in 1999, we’ve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world. Over 2,000 of the world’s leading corporations, including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the world’s central banks, trust ION solutions to manage their cash, in-house banking, commodity supply chain, trading and risk.Over 800 of the world’s leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the world’s financial market infrastructure.With 10,000 employees and offices in more than 40 cities around the globe, ION is a rapidly expanding and dynamic group. 
Within ION Analytics we help clients find advantage in a world of information overload and fragmented systems.  Our business information solutions blend expert journalism and analytics with data to help banks, advisors, investors, law firms and corporations find opportunities in markets ranging from equities and fixed income to infrastructure and private equity.On our platform clients can break through silos to originate opportunities, find buyers, and use resources efficiently, and our advanced workflow automation tools cut through the noise to deliver personalized, targeted information that saves time and effort, and drives better decisions.At ION, we offer careers that provide many opportunities: To invent. To design. To collaborate. To build. To transform businesses and empower people around the world to do more, faster and better than before. Imagine what you can do and experience. This is where you can do your best work. Learn more at iongroup.com. 
ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business.ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.