Role Overview
We have partnered with a leading global asset manager looking to hire an experienced Credit Analyst for their Global Fixed Income team in London.
This is a desk-based role sitting directly alongside Portfolio Managers, where you will have real ownership of coverage from day one. The team manages a mix of institutional and retail assets across fixed income strategies and has a strong long-term track record of investment performance.
The core focus of the role is fundamental credit analysis, with a clear emphasis on BB-rated high yield and crossover credit, alongside some IG coverage.
There will also be scope to get involved in other fixed-income asset classes (eg. convertible bonds or structured credit), making this an unusually broad seat for a credit analyst hire.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct deep, bottom-up fundamental credit analysis across BB-rated high yield, crossover, and investment grade issuers
- Generate trade ideas and relative value opportunities across the capital structure
- Build and maintain detailed financial models to support investment views and recommendations
- Cover a broad universe of companies across multiple strategies and geographies
- Contribute directly to P&L through idea generation, conviction, and implementation
- Provide input on position sizing alongside Portfolio Managers
- Participate in investment committees, presenting clear and well-supported credit views
- Monitor news flow and provide timely updates on portfolio positions
- Support client discussions and articulate investment views where required
Requirements and Qualifications
- 5-10+ years of experience in credit analysis, ideally within a buy-side environment or in a role working closely with Portfolio Managers (sell-side desk analyst profiles will also be considered)
- Strong core skillset in fundamental credit, particularly across high yield and crossover credit, with some IG exposure
- Advanced financial modeling skills are essential – this is an important requirement for the role
- Strong understanding of fixed income markets, instruments, and portfolio construction
- Proven ability to think across trade ideas, relative value, and implementation, not just fundamental analysis
- Strong academic background
- Any experience with convertible bonds or equity research is a bonus but is not required
- Low-ego, collaborative, and team-oriented mindset
- Proactive and self-starting, comfortable taking ownership of a broad coverage universe
- Commercially minded, with a clear focus on investment outcomes and P&L impact
- Clear and confident communicator, able to articulate views internally and externally
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