Analyst/Associate, Collateral Analyst - Structuring and Analytics

Job Description:

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Job Description:
This job is responsible for performing financial and statistical analyses, conducting research, and participating in specific client and deal teams. Key responsibilities include developing client presentations and structuring and execution activities. Job expectations may include rotating through any of the multiple client management, credit management, and capital raising product areas across Global Corporate and Investment Banking in a sales function.

The Structuring and Analytics group works with the structured products trading and investment banking teams, focused on collateral analysis, structuring and project oriented requests. The candidate would handle collateral and structuring related requests for the residential mortgage business.

Responsibilities:

• Conducts financial analyses and prepares support documentation for client presentations
• Researches products and services in the market to gain insight into marketing and sales trends
• Supports the trading strategy to build effective client relationships and provide customized products and services to clients
• Participates in due diligence sessions, while communicating and interacting with deal team members
• Evaluate loan tapes: analyze data fields for reasonableness, make intelligent and accurate assumptions about missing information
• Work as intermediary between banking and trading on various valuation projects
• Present results of analyses clearly to internal and external parties
• Streamline and automate processes for repeat and periodic projects
• Use proprietary credit and prepayment models to value loans across multiple scenarios
• Work with the desk to evaluate results and examine options for best execution
• Modeling and structuring new issue transactions and indicative structures for trading desk and third-party clients
• Work with rating agencies to optimize structures and understand their rating criteria

• Business Development
• Causation Analysis
• Client Management
• Critical Thinking
• Financial Analysis
• Attention to Detail
• Customer and Client Focus
• Regulatory Compliance
• Research Analysis
• Risk Analytics
• Strong quantitative and analytical thinker
• Proficient in Excel and VBA. Experience using CAS (Collateral Analysis System) is a plus
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Highly detail oriented, ambitious, team player
• Well organized with the ability to work independently, learn quickly, handle multiple priorities and firm deadlines