Published: August 22, 2024 - The Corporate Credit Analyst engages closely with the department head to implement rigorous risk assessment strategies for new transactions and portfolio management. This role collaborates with Front Office deal teams to ensure seamless client service and assumes full responsibility for the lifecycle of financial transactions. Duties also include updating sector credit spreads, conducting historical and forecasted performance analyses of corporates and sectors, and maintaining strong interdepartmental relationships.
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1. Corporate Credit Analyst, Midstate Credit Solutions, Peoria, IL
Job Summary:
- Approving or recommending to senior credit analysts for approval new credit extensions, amendments, renewals and/or re-financings.
- Performing counterparty credit analysis on new transactions including, but not limited to, credit due diligence meetings, cash flow and liquidity analysis, sensitivity analysis, and collateral and enterprise valuation analysis.
- Reviewing and revising obligor specific internal risk ratings and SNC ratings assigned to capture differing degrees of credit risk over time.
- Evidencing a robust assessment of existing credit exposure through quarterly and annual monitoring reports.
- Identifying early remedial action on deteriorating credits, working jointly with the workout department to manage problem credits and/or workout situations.
- Ensuring information systems measure obligor specific credit risk, including the composition, quality, and concentration of risk correctly against relevant limits.
- Provision of comprehensive and timely portfolio reporting for purposes of management oversight.
- Implementing the bank’s credit risk strategy and credit risk appetite.
- Implementing policies and procedures to identify, measure, monitor and control portfolio credit risk.
Skills on Resume:
- Credit Risk Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Cash Flow Assessment (Hard Skills)
- Risk Rating Management (Hard Skills)
- Credit Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Remedial Action Planning (Soft Skills)
- Risk Data Accuracy (Hard Skills)
- Portfolio Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Credit Policy Implementation (Soft Skills)
2. Corporate Credit Analyst, Regional Finance Corp, Albany, NY
Job Summary:
- Assess and monitor credit risk according to regulatory and internal risk policies on a portfolio of corporate clients
- Interact with different departments and stakeholders as part of the corporate credit process, on a local and international scale
- Prepare written credit proposals combining financials analysis with sectorial information to support credit committee decisions regarding the client’s risk of default, credit rating and adequacy of the proposed financing
- Working with Corporate Banking clients, ranging from local subsidiaries to the largest companies from across Europe, Middle East and Africa, across many industries
- Gain in-depth knowledge of a wide range of Corporate Banking products including Liquidity / Working Capital facilities, Derivatives, Cash Management and Trade Finance
- Manage a range of corporate and institutional clients across of range of industries
- Completing analysis on clients and assets, focusing on capital structure
- Origination and execute loans inclusive of negation and documentation
- Structuring credit and loans for new and existing clients
- Identify and pursue business development through working with internal teams across global offices.
Skills on Resume:
- Risk Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Interaction (Soft Skills)
- Proposal Writing (Hard Skills)
- Client Management (Soft Skills)
- Product Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Industry Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Loan Execution (Hard Skills)
- Business Development (Soft Skills)
3. Corporate Credit Analyst, Coastal Credit Group, Richmond, VA
Job Summary:
- Assist Senior Credit Analyst in researching, assessing, and monitoring investment grade and high yield corporate bond issuers, including primary market issuance, secondary market idea generation, and existing holdings
- Assist in evaluation, reporting, and recommendation of credits via analysis of financial statements and SEC filings, third-party research, and discussions with management
- Assist in development of and improvement upon existing processes in order to streamline portfolio monitoring activities, investment idea generation, and communication for a growing corporate bond portfolio
- Develop financial models capable of incorporating micro- and macroeconomic assumptions to project revenue, earnings, and cash flow performance
- Communicate effectively and in a timely manner through concise written reports / summaries
- Collect and collate data to disseminate to sales, marketing, portfolio managers, and other stakeholders
- Liaise with IT and operations to automate reports and streamline tasks
- Prepare credit applications/papers inclusive of analysis for new transactions, and undertake credit review
- Monitor and manage assigned accounts actively, being aware of credit deterioration or improvement
Skills on Resume:
- Credit Research (Hard Skills)
- Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Model Development (Hard Skills)
- Report Writing (Hard Skills)
- Data Management (Hard Skills)
- IT Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Account Monitoring (Hard Skills)
4. Corporate Credit Analyst, Pioneer Credit Advisors, Boise, ID
Job Summary:
- Work closely with the head of department practicing strong risk assessment procedures towards new transactions and management of portfolios.
- Partner with Front Office deal teams to ensure delivery to clients.
- Take ownership of transactions from beginning to approval.
- Assist with analysing financial and structural risks and provide advice to structure transactions and mitigate identified risks.
- Escalate issues to senior team members
- Create and maintain strong relationships with the team and cross functional departments.
- Update sector credit spread trackers and relative value comps using trader runs and publicly available market data.
- Analyze the historical and project the future performance of corporates and sectors
- Analyze and extract relevant historical operating and credit metrics from balance sheet, income and cash flow statements for both US (GAAP) and European (IFRS) IG and HY corporates
- Create and update 1-page corporate summaries using operating and financial models
Skills on Resume:
- Risk Assessment (Hard Skills)
- Client Delivery (Soft Skills)
- Transaction Ownership (Hard Skills)
- Financial Advising (Hard Skills)
- Issue Escalation (Soft Skills)
- Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
- Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Financial Modeling (Hard Skills)
5. Corporate Credit Analyst, Urban Financial Services, Reno, NV
Job Summary:
- Act as an escalation point for questions and issues raised by clients or by data entry colleagues
- Analysing the applicable financial situation and making a decision or recommendation
- Review financial data sets produced by Credit-Vision system and automation tools
- Oversee onboarding of new clients, as well as new assets from existing clients.
- Provide clear new requirements to technology colleagues
- Exhibit a deep understanding of financial statements and key ratios/metrics
- Flexible and excited to work on an emerging product line and technology
- Customer focus, develop strong professional relationships with key clients
- Collaborative and able to listen to new points of view, as well as articulate a strong opinion
- Maintain a deep understanding of loan market trends and issues
Skills on Resume:
- Issue Resolution (Soft Skills)
- Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Data Review (Hard Skills)
- Client Onboarding (Soft Skills)
- Technology Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Financial Acumen (Hard Skills)
- Customer Relations (Soft Skills)
- Market Trend Analysis (Hard Skills)
6. Corporate Credit Analyst, Summit Credit Association, Fargo, ND
Job Summary:
- Assist in the preparation of credit applications, principally for Investment Grade Corporates
- Deliver high-quality applications to enable credit committee to make an informed decision.
- Assist with the monitoring and reporting of credit exposure / risk in line with internal policies and risk appetite.
- Ensure the effective administration of the credit portfolio, monitoring of credit limits, reviewing documentation.
- Assist in the preparation of country reports with a view to establishing country limits by product.
- Analyze and extract relevant historical operating and credit metrics from balance sheet, income and cash flow statements for both US (GAAP) and European (IFRS) IG and HY corporates
- Create and update 1-page corporate summaries using operating and financial models
- Update sector credit spread trackers and relative value comps using trader runs and publicly available market data.
- Analyze the historical and project the future performance of corporates and sectors
- Communicate with colleagues
Skills on Resume:
- Credit Applications (Hard Skills)
- Risk Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Portfolio Management (Hard Skills)
- Country Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Summary Creation (Hard Skills)
- Data Updating (Hard Skills)
- Team Communication (Soft Skills)
7. Corporate Credit Analyst, Gateway Credit Partners, Springfield, MO
Job Summary:
- Ensure that complete set of documents required for analyzing the credit application are submitted
- Prepare loan application and submission to Local Branch Manager and/or Central Credit Assessment (Hq’s) for approval.
- Assess income statement, on and off-balance sheet
- Perform ratio analysis and comparative corporate assessment
- Prepare accurate cash flow analysis in order to evaluate debt serviceability of the borrower
- Assess and evaluate Credit bureau in particular Centrale Rischi Interbancaria
- Analyze collateral/guarantor in order to set the required % of unsecured for the lender
- Identify some of the early warning signs of financial statements
- Perform internal credit rating
- Assess the key drivers of business planning
- Monitor credit Approval documentation, reports and financial performance
Skills on Resume:
- Document Verification (Hard Skills)
- Loan Submission (Hard Skills)
- Financial Assessment (Hard Skills)
- Ratio Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Cash Flow Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Collateral Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Credit Rating (Hard Skills)
- Performance Monitoring (Hard Skills)