Associate Director - Credit Rating (6-14 yrs)

Associate Director - Credit Rating

Responsibilities:

- Formulate credit framework and rating criteria leveraging team which would be used by analysts to recommend ratings

- Take feedback from market (lender, issuers, market intermediaries) and analytical team regarding sectors to formulate criteria

- Have the criteria team analysts test the proposed credit criteria with data and present the results to a credit committee comprising senior management

- Articulate the credit framework in criteria committee and defend the same

- Internal and external presentations on the credit criteria

- Drive thought leadership by authoring articles/opinion pieces on bond markets

- Engage with market participants by sharing perspectives on our thought leadership articles

- Mentor and groom analysts in team

- Conduct training to analytical teams on criteria and handle ad-hoc queries

- Exceptional analytical skills

- Excellent verbal and analytical writing skills

- Strong domain expertise across multiple sectors

- Self-starter and strong learning orientation

- Inquisitive mind and ability to question the status quo

- 6-10 years of credit rating experience, preferably in large corporates

- Strong team and stakeholder management skills

- Good grasp of statistical concepts is desirable