Corporate Infrastructure & Project Finance - Leveraged Finance, Senior Director

About This Role

This senior analytical and market-facing position focuses on leveraged finance issuers, primarily across broadly syndicated loans (BSL) and high yield bonds. The Senior Director will be a key thought contributor to analytical ratings teams, providing deep credit expertise and judgment on complex and highly leveraged issuers. The role involves close collaboration with analysts to help shape credit views, particularly on more challenging credits and leveraged finance structures, while serving as a senior and visible representative of Fitch to market participants.

Responsibilities

• Provide deep credit expertise and judgment on complex and highly leveraged issuers
• Collaborate closely with analysts to help shape credit views, particularly on more challenging credits and leveraged finance structures
• Serve as a senior and visible representative of Fitch to issuers, bankers, private equity sponsors, and other market participants
• Manage a small team within Leveraged Finance
• Use excellent communication skills and knowledge at external client-facing functions and internal team up-skilling

Requirements

• Extensive experience across leveraged finance markets, particularly in BSL and high yield bonds
• Strong credit-oriented background, ideally from a buy-side, sell-side, or ratings-adjacent advisory platform
• Demonstrated experience with leveraged loan structuring, syndication and documentation
• Understanding of distressed debt, restructurings, and liability management transactions, and the ability to assess credit implications across stressed scenarios
• Track record of providing analytical judgment on complex credit situations
• Credibility and relationships across leveraged finance market participants, including issuers, PE sponsors, and arranging banks
• Working familiarity with CLO market dynamics and investor considerations as they relate to the leveraged loan ecosystem (deep structuring experience not required)
• Excellent knowledge of the broadly syndicated loan market

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with ratings agency frameworks, methodologies, and workflow

Important Details

• Team: small team within Leveraged Finance, with analysts based in New York, Chicago in the U.S. and Monterrey in Mexico

About the Company

Fitch Ratings is one of the world’s top three credit ratings agencies, playing a critical role in global capital markets by providing supplementary credit analysis, ratings, research, and commentary to financial market participants. For over 100 years, Fitch Ratings has been creating value for global markets through its rigorous analysis and deep expertise. Fitch Ratings is part of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries, which also includes Fitch Solutions. Fitch Group is owned by Hearst and has dual headquarters in London and New York.