Credit Analyst, Fi French Banks

**Company Overview**

Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Fitch Group is comprised of: Fitch Ratings, a global leader in credit ratings and research; Fitch Solutions, an industry-leading provider of credit risk products and services; and Fitch Learning, a preeminent training and professional development firm. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.

Fitch Ratings has an open culture where employees are able to exchange ideas and perspectives, throughout the organization, irrespective of their seniority. Your voice will be heard allowing you to have a real impact. We embrace diversity and appreciate authenticity, employees work in an environment where they can be their true selves. Our inclusive and progressive approach helps us to keep a balanced perspective.

**Department overview**:
The Fitch Ratings Financial Institutions Group has actively built the agency into the global leader in bank credit rating coverage. Our experienced analysts provide comprehensive, timely and transparent coverage of major institutions around the world, as well as unparalleled coverage of smaller companies. Our analysts offer a diversity of talent and backgrounds, with experience in regulatory oversight, counterparty analysis, auditing, investment banking, buy-side investing and more.

**Job Description/Responsibilities**:

- Monitoring a portfolio of issuer ratings, including the preparation of rating committee documentation.
- Writing and publishing comprehensive rating reports on individual issuers (based on public information and management meetings with the rated entities).
- Participation in credit rating committees for banks in their allocated region and other countries.
- Regular interaction with contacts at issuers and liaison with issuers’ senior management at rating meetings.
- Active involvement in the publication of issuer
- and sector-specific research and insightful commentaries
- Overseeing the work of more junior colleagues
- Responding to external queries from investors, bankers and other fixed income market participants

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- Meaningful experience as a bank analyst gained as a counterparty, bank or corporate analyst, auditor, regulator or relationship manager. Educated to degree level (with professional qualifications such as CFA an advantage).
- Strong analytical and reasoning capacities
- Excellent demonstrable written and verbal communication skills in French and English. Native level in French highly desirable.
- The ability to work independently as well as being a good team player.
- The ability to cope with time pressure and work to deadlines while adhering to tight procedures is essential
- Strong attention to details, in particular when reviewing information-heavy materials and bank/regulatory disclosure
- Strong command of Excel

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch’s credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interests or any appearance of a conflict of interest.

Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts for you and your Family Members prior to commencing employment. If you, or your Family Members, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, they must be sold before beginning work. In certain roles, employees and their Family Members may be limited to investments in diversified mutual funds only.

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