Senior SRT Reporter

Role

[Employer hidden], a rapidly growing tech-powered financial news and data company and leader in leveraged finance and distressed debt news and analysis, is seeking highly motivated reporters to join us in building out our coverage of the significant risk transfer (SRT) market. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a groundbreaking coverage model while working in an exciting, collaborative environment. An ideal candidate would be highly curious, self motivated and possess outstanding interpersonal skills. They should have prior experience covering debt capital markets. An understanding of significant risk transfer (SRT), structured finance, fundraising, and CLOs is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Help build out [Employer hidden]’ coverage of SRT formation, transactions and trends
• Develop and maintain rapport with key SRT asset managers, arrangers and investors
• Identify and report on salient trends and developments in SRTs, as well as touching on CLOs, leveraged finance, and private credit
• Collaborate with financial and legal analysts, and other reporters across multiple sectors

Requirements

• London-based candidates are preferred
• Basic understanding of and experience writing about debt capital markets; structured finance a plus
• A career driven interest in learning about credit, structured and private credit and its intersection with private equity and LP formation.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; self motivated; ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced newsroom environment
• Write clearly and concisely under deadline pressure and derive trends from issuance, pricing and other market patterns
• Passion for obtaining scoops through outreach and cultivation of sources among highly sophisticated market participants to obtain scoops in the market
• The candidate must be collaborative and enjoy working in a multicultural team environment.