Russell Investments India | Credit Analyst

Responsibilities

• This position's primary responsibility will be for evaluating and monitoring the creditworthiness of corporations within the investment grade spectrum.
• The Credit Analyst is also responsible for making presentations to the Rating Committee with credit opinions and internal rating recommendations.
• This position also identifies developing credit concerns before they negatively impact the portfolios and identifies potential additions to the Approved List.
• Timely credit research and financial analysis in response to trading and portfolio management proposals for investments in new-issue and secondary investment opportunities.
• Ensuring consistency of the credit research process, while seeking on going enhancements and efficiencies to the research process which meets the needs of all stakeholders.
• Work proactively with portfolio managers and other key stakeholders.
• Ongoing surveillance and monitoring of assigned credits which may include Asset Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP) and Asset Backed Securities (ABS).
• Outstanding people skills with the ability to convey credit opinions and concerns effectively and efficiently.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Accounting, Finance or related field. MBA or CFA designation highly preferred.
• Exposure analysis and credit risk measurement.
• Ability to manage a significant amount of data and support database design and management for credit research, ratio and trend analyses, and management reporting.
• Excellent qualitative and quantitative financial analysis skills.
• Ability to leverage tools such as Excel, Bloomberg, to drive efficient, credit monitoring.
• Experience with risk management principals and techniques such as VaR and Stress Testing.
• Strong work ethic with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple responsibilities.
• Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication and collaboration skills with all levels of management.
• Strong organizational skills including the ability to adapt to shifting priorities and meet frequent deadlines.
• Demonstrated proactive approach to problem-solving with strong judgment and decision-making capability.

Russell Investments

Frank Russell started the firm in Tacoma, Washington, in 1936, and Russell Investments is now headquartered in Seattle. It manages money and gives investment advice to institutional investors, financial intermediaries and individual investors in many countries. Along the way it was an early name in institutional investment consulting (from 1969), took on its first outsourced chief investment officer client in 1980 and launched multi-asset portfolios for advisers in 1985. It also builds custom portfolios that mix active, passive and alternative investments, and manages portfolio transitions for large investors. In India, Russell Investments has an office in Mumbai that works alongside its teams in other countries.

In Mumbai, the finance-related roles include investment operations analysts and associate managers, a senior analyst in fund administration and a credit analyst. Most postings ask for a bachelor's degree in finance, economics, accounting or business administration. The CFA is often preferred, one posting names an MBA or CFA as highly preferred, and another leans towards a CA or CPA with experience of financial reporting under US GAAP.

• Industry: Asset management and investment consulting: multi-asset portfolios, outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) services, portfolio transitions
• Headquarters: Seattle, Washington, United States (Russell Investments)
• In India: An office in Mumbai, where its India investment operations and finance roles are based