Junior Data Analyst

About CreditSights & Fitch Solutions

Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, CreditSights continues to offer award-winning, unbiased research on global credit markets, empowering clients to make informed investment decisions. With offices in New York, London, Singapore, Glasgow, Denver, and Charlotte, we serve a diverse global institutional client base, including banks, investment advisors, mutual funds, and hedge funds. As a leading voice in credit research, our expert insights are featured in top publications such as Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times. As a Fitch Solutions Company, CreditSights provides a dynamic environment fostering professional growth and innovation, where you collaborate with seasoned analysts to deliver critical intelligence in complex financial markets.

Working at CreditSights offers the chance to be part of a premier independent credit research firm, renowned for its in-depth analysis and insights. You'll collaborate with a team of seasoned analysts, delivering critical intelligence that helps clients navigate complex financial markets. This dynamic environment encourages professional growth and innovation, enabling you to make a meaningful impact in the field of credit research.

About The Team

Our Leveraged Finance team spans New York, London, and Glasgow, working closely with Legal team on deals across the loan and bond markets.

We handle data collection and management, data analysis, client requests, and offer hands-on training and mentorship. We value attention to detail, open communication, accountability, and result-driven approach.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Create and maintain financial and legal data in a sustainable database
• Ensure accuracy and completeness of data through careful validation and verification processes
• Collaborate with other team members to identify data collection needs and develop strategies to address them effectively
• Compile time-series data to support research by our analyst and editorial teams as well as clients
• Work alongside our Sales team to explain and promote our data and research products

You May Be a Good Fit If

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Finance, Economics or a related discipline.
• Strong attention to detail plus the ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously
• Keen interest in global financial markets and world affairs
• Demonstrable proficiency in Excel
• Desire to learn analytical and data handling skills in a dynamic and challenging working environment

What Would Make You Stand Out

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal
• Proactive problem-solving and strong organizational skills
• Strong research and analytical skills
• SQL and/or Python experience
• Experience contributing to a team under time-pressured deadlines
• Being meticulous and thorough in reviewing data is very important for this role. If you are the kind of person who catches every little detail, you are exactly who we are looking for

Why Choose Fitch

• Hybrid Work Environment: 3 days a week in office required based on your line of business and location
• A Culture of Learning & Mobility: Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity
• Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and long-term goals
• Promoting Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive healthcare offerings that enable physical, mental, financial, social, and occupational wellbeing
• Supportive Parenting Policies: Family-friendly policies, including a generous global parental leave plan, designed to help you balance career and family life effectively
• Inclusive Work Environment: A collaborative workplace where all voices are valued, with Employee Resource Groups that unite and empower our colleagues around the globe
• Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days, matched funding for donations and ample opportunities to volunteer in your community

Conflicts of Interest & Equal Opportunity

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch’s credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interest or any appearance of a conflict of interest. Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will be asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts prior to commencing employment. If you, or your immediate family, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.

Fitch is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

Key skills/competency

• Data analysis
• Financial markets
• Excel proficiency
• SQL experience
• Python for data
• Attention to detail
• Data validation
• Credit research
• Communication skills
• Problem-solving