Credit Analyst

Our Company We're a diverse group of innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. More than 40% of the world's largest companies use our solutions. Founded in 1999, we've achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world. • Over 2,000 of the world's leading corporations including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the world's central banks, trust ION solutions to manage their cash, in-house banking, commodity supply chain, trading and risk. • Over 800 of the world's leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the world's financial market infrastructure. Within ION Analytics we help clients find advantage in a world of information overload and fragmented systems. Our business information solutions blend expert journalism and analytics with data to help banks, advisors, investors, law firms and corporations find opportunities in markets ranging from equities and fixed income to infrastructure and private equity. On our platform clients can break through silos to originate opportunities, find buyers, and use resources efficiently, and our advanced workflow automation tools cut through the noise to deliver personalized, targeted information that saves time and effort, and drives better decisions. With 10,000 employees and offices in more than 40 cities around the globe, ION is a rapidly expanding and dynamic group. At ION, we offer careers that provide many opportunities: To invent. To design. To collaborate. To build. To transform businesses and empower people around the world to do more, faster and better than before. Imagine what you can do and experience. This is where you can do your best work. Learn more at Role : Research Analyst Type : Contract Duration : 6 Months Debtwire, a global provider of financial news, research, and data specializing in fixed income has an immediate opening for an analyst on contract basis, to join our team in Mumbai. The candidate's main responsibility will be to help produce in-depth fundamental credit research on distressed companies. Another core responsibility will be to produce insights reports on debt restructuring activity in Asia. Key Responsibilities • Assist our analyst team in the production of credit research on distressed companies across Asia. • Prepare complex capital structures and organizational charts. • The candidate will be responsible for collecting information related to the appointment of financial and legal restructuring advisors across Asia. The data will be fed into Debtwire's proprietary database and will also form the basis of quarterly insights reports that will be published on our website. • The candidate will help to collect data and produce a monthly report that tracks Chinese property developers. • Other ad hoc duties. Required Skills, Experience and Qualifications • The candidate must have a strong understanding of company financial statements. • Basic understanding of debt and equity securities and how news impacts those securities. • Strong English writing skills. • The candidate must have the ability to sift through large volumes of information in order to extract relevant details. • Ability to work in a team-based environment. The candidate will need to work collaboratively with a dynamic team of journalists. • 1-3 years of prior working experience in a similar role would be ideal, although recent graduates with exceptional academic records will also be considered