Corporates Ratings Director

Position Title: Corporates - Ratings Director (MD)

Entity: Kroll Bond Rating Agency, LLC

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: Frederick, Maryland

Summary/Overview:

KBRA (Kroll Bond Rating Agency, LLC) is seeking an Director to join our growing our Corporates Ratings team with a focus on conducting fundamental credit analysis and research across a wide range of sectors.

The Director will work in a highly collaborative team that liaises with internal and external stakeholders to produce high quality and timely corporate credit opinions. The Director will also help conduct credit research on a variety of industrial and service sectors, including analyzing and publishing trends, key rating factors, and evolving credit metrics. This individual will have significant interaction with senior management of corporate issuers, and their advisors. This position is based in our Maryland office.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead the credit rating process by preparing internal credit memos, analyzing cash flows, performing sector analysis, and publishing credit reports.
• Author sector research for investors and lenders across private credit, direct lending, and public debt markets.
• Assist in the development and evolution of rating processes and analytical tools.
• Participate in issuer and investor meetings to explain KBRA methodologies and demonstrate understanding of industry trends.

Key Job Qualifications:

Flourish in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment.  Effectively collaborate with your team members and are motivated to succeed and continually strive for consistency, accuracy and timeliness.

You will be successful in this role if you:

• Bachelor’s degree in any subject that prepared you to be a thoughtful qualitative and quantitative analyst and a strong writer. Master’s degree is preferred.
• A minimum of seven (7) or more years of work experience as a financial analyst role within a bank or other financial institution.  Prior fundamental credit training (including financial statement analysis) is preferred..
• Conduct due-diligence and interact with clients as part of the rating process.
• Possess a solid understanding of capital markets and relevant experience in credit, fixed income research or capital markets.
• Experience with corporate financial statements including 10-Ks, 10-Qs.
• Work as an integral part of a team and across disciplines in a challenging and dynamic environment.