Leveraged, Acquisition & TMT Finance Americas – Portfolio Management - Analyst

Team and positionCredit Agricole is among world top 10 banking groups. Our NY based Leveraged Finance team is directly responsible for origination and execution of LBOs with leading Private Equity Funds in North America, as well as financings for leveraged (non-investment grade) corporates, across loans and HY bonds. In addition, the team is also in charge of event driven financings (M&A and IPO related) for Investment Grade clients, and of leveraged / structured financing transactions in the TMT sector, including the current wave of infrastructure flavored deals (towercos, data centers, fibercos, GPU Financings) with Infrastructure Funds, across North America and Latam. It is referred to internally as the “LATFG” team (Leveraged, Acquisition & TMT Finance).

Building on its recent successes, the team is expanding to support its strong growth ambitions. In order to address the increasing volumes of credit and reporting management work generated by our expanding loan portfolio, we are setting up a portfolio management (PFM) team.

We are opening a Portfolio Management analyst position. The analyst will report to the Director in charge of Portfolio Management, with regular interaction with the origination part of LATFG team.

Key Responsibilities1) Credit monitoring of our loan portfolio

Contribute to the ongoing credit monitoring work for part of the leveraged finance and TMT loan portfolio (current volume of about 75 deals): write up of annual reviews, credit papers in relation towaivers and amendments, quarterly write ups for distressed loans. In close coordination withrespective deal/client teams.

Proactively flag to client teams any early warning signals of credit deterioration, concerns, or ideas for commercial opportunitiesEnsure timely propagation of internal risk rating decisions within the internal IT systems.

Occasionally represent the team in the various credit committees (NY credit committee, CLF credit committee, CRC) and monitoring committees (Quarterly committees for underperforming loans or loans under watchlist “SARs” and “SACs”), underperforming or under watch loansCoordinate with CLF Loan Operations team to monitor evolution of the portfolio (increases or reductions via amortization, prepayments, secondary trades etc)Coordinate with CLF Loan Operations and respective deal/client teams to ensure authorizations recorded in internal systems are accurate and up to date.

Maintain close coordination on all of the above tasks with respective LATFG client teams. Interact with clients whenever necessary to clarify credit related questions, in coordination with the LATFG client team.

Review quarterly or annual information provided by client, connect to lender or investor calls organized by clients and relay summaries of meaningful information to LATFG team manager and respective LATFG client team.

Depending on deal flow, there will also be occasional opportunities to get involved in live, new deals as part of the origination deal team.2) Contribute to Internal and Regulatory Reporting:

Collect data and under PFM Director, assist with the regular requests for reporting from ourinternal stakeholders (HO business line, COO teams, RPC): monthly anomaly reports, monthlyLevFin excel pipeline, quarterly portfolio review files, “deals world” database for LBOs, etcContribute to recurring, ad hoc, and annual audits (NY annual and quarterly Compliance Loan Review, ad hoc NY portfolio reviews, Internal Audit “Inspection Generale”, add hoc CUSO reviews)Assist team manager and respective deal teams in ensuring that the CLF pipeline tool (“Diamond”) is up to date.

Contribute to occasional ad hoc information requests when and as requiredAssist LATFG manager with periodic estimate of landing vs budget and other planning tasksCandidate background / experienceIdeally 1-2 years experience in either a leveraged finance environment (portfolio management, credit analyst or origination and execution), or a credit risk / credit underwriting and monitoring function.

Relevant academic background (BA/BS degree with economics/finance major coursework, ideally Master's degree – Msc Finance or MBA).

SkillsStrong quantitative and qualitative analytical skillsPrior experience in financial analysis, cash flow modeling experience will be a plusReliability, attention to detail and quality outputs,Good organizational skills: ability to keep track of deadlines, to organize its own workGood communication and interpersonal skills (ability to communicate seamlessly with various front office deal teams, and capacity to interact convincingly and forcefully with internal partners, in particular with risk & senior representatives from business line or coverage)MS Office suite proficiencyFluency in a second language (in particular French, Portuguese, Spanish) is a plus.