eFinancialCareers

• Company

  Carr Lyons Search and Selection

• Location

  UK-London

• Compensation

  £80K to £90k

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  20 Nov 2009

• eFC Ref no

  571468

Responsibilities:

• CMBS/Structured Finance research.
• Guide junior team members in collection, analysis and synthesis of relevant data.
• Produce leading edge commentary pieces for external publication.
• Support surveillance analysts in the publication of articles.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders.
• Take an active role in outreach campaigns, targeting investors in structured finance securities.
• Present research at industry conferences and/or in-house seminars.
• Build and maintain relationships within the structured finance group and beyond.
• Mentor junior research and surveillance analysts in their role as producers of written publications.
• Identify own learning and development needs for current and future development.

Requirements:

• Extensive professional experience in financial markets, with the majority in a securitization-related role.
• Understanding of major structured finance asset classes (ABS, CMBS, RMBS, CDO).
• Extensive experience in research, preferably in a professional, customer-facing role, or possibly academic.
• Ability to identify and distil patterns and trends.
• Independence and ability to form and express a view.
• Fluency in written English.
• Ability to write creative, high impact, and professional articles.
• Professional experience of writing for an external audience is desirable.
• Confident and flexible team player.
• Strong oral and written presentation skills.
• Analytically strong and highly numerate.
• Solid understanding of credit analysis.
• Ability to graphically present data.
• Understanding of securitisation credit and cash flow modelling.
• Awareness of statistical techniques.
• Data manipulation skills, e.g. advanced MS Excel and/or Access.