Municipal Credit Analyst
- New York City, NY
- $160,000-175,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead evaluation of specialized and complex investments utilizing all available sources of information including governing documents, published research, financial reports, news, rating agency reports, and market information
- Analyze new issue and secondary market taxable and tax-exempt municipal credits to create reports, analyses, and recommendations
- Create and maintain analytical models and tools that enhance credit research (e.g. sector-wide credit metric comparable, macro stress testing)
- In-depth work on the legal characteristics of security structure, such as mutability of cash flow waterfalls, enforceability of tax levies, legality of issuance authorization, substitutability of indentures
- Monitor portfolio holdings and municipal sectors for credit changes and material news and events
- Formulate and manage sector investment thesis and strategy and communicate firm-wide, incorporating the firm’s macro views
- Provide the team leader with ongoing information about market sentiment, liquidity, volatility, and other market information about the sector
- Prioritize investment activities considering Portfolio needs, desk resources, and market risk/value.
- Create and maintain desk tools that improve investment process and efficiency (e.g., secondary offerings, trade reports, bi-weekly meeting data, credit review log)
- Create and institutionalize credit research reporting, credit memo templates, and ESG analysis framework
- Author the municipal sector team’s Quarterly Outlook thought leadership piece
- Ensure adherence with firm policies and procedures with respect to investment underwriting, compliance, trading
- Direct surveillance, research, and project activities in conjunction with the Team Leader
- Develop project scope and set priorities for technology and research initiatives
- Assist in the creation and maintenance of marketing materials
- Advanced degree (MFE, MBA) or equivalent educational background are desirable.
- Strong credit, finance, economic, business, and technical skills
- Ability to multi-task across analytical, administrative, and research activities in a detail oriented and timely manner.
- Team oriented individual with ability to work independently and work well with diverse groups in a market-paced environment
- BA/BS in a quantitative discipline to include finance, business, economics or accounting
- Minimum 6-9 years’ experience in credit research and analysis
- CFA or progress toward CFA is required
- Experience with industry standard tools and data products such as Bloomberg, BRS, Ipreo, TM3.
- Strong credit, finance, economic, business, and technical skills
- Advanced Excel skills are required. SQL, Python skills are desirable
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong commitment to performance and accuracy of work product