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Team and Position: Credit Agricole is among world top 10 banking groups. Our NY based Leveraged Finance team is directly responsible for origination and execution of LBOs with leading Private Equity Funds in North America, as well as financings for leveraged (non-investment grade) corporates, across loans and HY bonds. In addition, the team is also in charge of event driven financings (M&A and IPO related) for Investment Grade clients, and of leveraged / structured financing transactions in the TMT sector, including the current wave of infrastructure flavoured deals (towercos, data centers, fibercos, GPU Financings) with Infrastructure Funds, across North America and Latam. It is referred to internally as the “LATFG” team (Leveraged, Acquisition & TMT Finance). Building on its recent successes, the team is expanding to support its strong growth ambitions. In order to address the increasing volumes of credit and reporting management work generated by our expanding loan portfolio, we are setting up a portfolio management (PFM) team. We are opening a Portfolio Management analyst position.
Job Responsibility:
Credit monitoring of our loan portfolio: write up of annual reviews, credit papers in relation to waivers and amendments, quarterly write ups for loans under watch
Proactively flag any early warning signals of credit deterioration, concerns, or ideas for commercial opportunities
Ensure timely propagation of internal rating decisions within the internal IT systems
Occasionally represent the team in the various credit committees and monitoring committees
Coordinate with CLF LOSA team to monitor evolution of the portfolio
Coordinate with CLF LOSA and respective deal/client teams to ensure authorizations recorded in internal systems are accurate and up to date
Maintain close coordination on all of the above tasks with respective LATFG client teams
Interact with clients whenever necessary to clarify credit related questions
Review quarterly or annual information provided by client, connect to lender or investor calls organized by clients and relay summaries of meaningful information
Contribute to internal and regulatory Reporting: collect data and assist with the regular requests for reporting from our internal stakeholders
Contribute to recurring, ad hoc, and annual audits
Assist team manager and respective deal teams in ensuring that the CLF pipeline tool (“Diamond”) is up to date
Contribute to occasional ad hoc information requests when and as required
Assist LATFG manager with periodic estimate of landing vs budget and other planning tasks
Requirements:
Relevant academic background (BA/BS degree with economics/finance major coursework)
Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills
Reliability, attention to detail and quality outputs
Good organizational skills: ability to keep track of deadlines, to organize its own work
Good communication and interpersonal skills (ability to communicate seamlessly with LATFG deal teams, and capacity to interact convincingly and forcefully with internal partners)
MS Office suite proficiency
Ideally 1–2 year experience in either a leveraged finance environment (portfolio management or origination and execution), or a credit risk / credit underwriting and monitoring function
Nice to have:
Master's degree – Msc Finance or MBA
Prior experience in financial analysis, cash flow modeling experience will be a plus
Fluency in a second language (in particular French, Portuguese, Spanish) is a strong positive