Role/Responsibilities :

　　The Associate role provides a range of analytical support services that contributes to the overall credit analysis function performed by the Structured Finance Line of Business. Prospective candidates will have good exposure to capital markets, fixed income in particular and a general understanding of securitization. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate their ability to work effectively in a team environment. The ideal candidate for this role will possess strong organizational skills, demonstrate attention to detail, and enjoy working in a collaborative team environment. The Associate position provides a unique opportunity to foster skills that are valuable to any future career in the financial services industry. This will be an internally facing role, reporting into the Team Manager.

　　Key Responsibilities

　　Perform preliminary analysis to support ratings, research, analytical outreach: Examples of analytical work include

　　Data analysis for underlying loans such as residential, commercial mortgages etc. Identify trends/deviations in data and use analytical ability to form well thought out credit conclusions

　　Data analytics to support thematic research

　　Develop working knowledge of Moody's methodologies to support various analyses

　　Demonstrate the ability to understand and identify key factors that affect issuer credit ratings under full supervision and guidance from the team manager.

　　Support monitoring/surveillance of issuers by e.g. preparing data for surveillance, periodically updating preliminary components of analysis

　　Perform certain routine administrative and other ad-hoc tasks

　　Qualifications :

　　Minimum graduate degree required

　　Post graduate degree in finance, economics, mathematics or any other related discipline.

　　Experience of 1-2 years at least

　　Relevant experience in a credit/financial institution will be beneficial

　　Attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple on-going tasks