Senior Research Analyst

The role comprises working on comprehensive credit reviews of project finance deals based in global markets. Areas of work involve:
• Analysing information such as financial statements, operations/progress reports, asset summary report and debt structure • Preparing deep dive financial models with drivers-based revenue estimations and financial projections for a period of 5-7 years. • Perform financial statement analysis, undertake research and analysis of the project/entity based on thorough research from loan origination documents, prior annual assessments, secondary resources, etc. • Prepare a detailed credit assessment report and elaborately discuss the project’s/company’s business model, funding mix, strengths and weakness and evaluating its operational and financial risk profile (Cash flow, debt servicing assessment, etc.). Provide industry overview (operating market environment) and likely company position within industry based on secondary research. • Perform credit evaluation of borrower transaction history, underlying collateral, covenant monitoring, covenant projections and suggesting early warning signals (if applicable)

FUNCTIONAL & BEHAVIOURAL KNOWLEDGE
• Bring domain expertise in project financing operations and act as Subject Matter Expert • In-depth understanding of financial statement linkages, experience in working on complex financial models, strong fundamentals. • Experience in credit analysis, credit research and detailed report writing. • Reasonable understanding of lending process, bank guarantees and covenant monitoring.