Analyst/Associate, Liability Management - Debt Capital Markets

Summary

This position plays a key role in the origination and execution of liability management and bond transactions.

Key Responsibilities

Focus is liability management and bond transaction execution; which involves guiding a deal through the internal approval processes from start to finish for a primary market issuance. This includes assisting with the due diligence process; coordinating with auditors, rating agencies and legal counsels (both issuer and underwriter’s); coordinating with sales, trading and syndicate; assisting in arranging investor road shows; and all other responsibilities associated with a lead-managed new issue.

Working with senior DCM staff, the person will be responsible for preparing all requisite credit analyses and transaction memoranda for obtaining approval of bond underwritings.

Putting together pitch book materials and maintain deal related and market related data bases.

Bond price modelling and analyse. Credit and comparable analyses regarding potential issuers, including retrieving publicly- available information on companies, identifying and profiling comparable issuers, etc. This will entail using various data sources, including Bloomberg, Informa and CreditSights.

Maintain contact with European and Asian colleagues to assist in production of multi-currency presentation materials; work closely with global DCM coverage to obtain necessary approvals for cross border bond issuance.

Work seamlessly with the loan syndications, interest rate derivative, Sustainable Banking and other teams in coordinating multi-product pitch book materials.

Key Internal contacts

Syndicate

Trading

US DCM, Global DCM and Syndicate Desk

Legal Department, Compliance

Coverage Bankers

Sustainable Banking

Onboarding

Key External contacts

Clients

Legal Counsels

DCM Counterparts of other Banks

Qualifications/Education Required:

BA/BS degree

English speaking

Experience Required:

Prior experience in Debt Capital Markets / Credit Analysis / Financial Analysis

Competencies Required:

Strong analytical and math skills

Good communication and organizational skills

Team player

Good presentation skills

Good writing skills

Good time management skillls

Capacity to develop others

Capacity to delegate

Capacity to cooperate/work across disciplines

Capacity to take on board the strategy of Credit Agricole CIB and participate in actions to deliver

Skills & Knowledge Requirements:

Knowledge of capital markets and banking

Strong computer skills in Bloomberg, Excel, Powerpoint, Word

Coursework in accounting/finance/economics

Fixed income pricing mechanics and valuation