Fixed Income Associate Research Analyst - Leveraged Finance

Company: TIAA
Location: Charlotte
Posted on: April 4, 2025

Job Description:

Nuveen Investment's Leveraged Finance team is seeking to hire an associate analyst to focus on the domestic leveraged finance market, which includes leveraged loans, CLOs, high yield, and convertibles. The Leveraged Finance platform at Nuveen applies a collaborative and team-based approach to rigorous fundamental underwriting across the capital structure and risk spectrum, from higher quality non-investment grade to distressed situations. The team's philosophy is to invest in liquid capital structures, both long and short, where relative value dislocations and event driven catalysts exist. Leveraged Finance manages $42 billion in AUM, and its investment strategies include hedge funds, separately managed accounts, comingled strategies and sub-advisory mandates for both retail and institutional clients, including Nuveen's parent company, TIAA-CREF.Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Working closely with senior analysts in preparing analyses for the underwriting of potential primary and secondary investments, both long and short, including participating in investor presentations and management meetings, analyzing business drivers and risks, building financial models and capitalization tables, and drafting investment write-ups.
• Supporting senior analysts from the Leveraged Finance credit research team to effectively manage and monitor investments in leveraged loans, high yield, distressed and convertibles, including updating financial models, participating in earnings and management calls and inputting data into proprietary research systems.
• Assuming primary coverage of investments and subsectors over time, with responsibility to make recommendations on positions and generate new ideas within coverage universe.
• Assisting with ESG analysis and monitoring of portfolio investments for ESG risk.Educational Requirements
  • University (Degree) PreferredWork Experience
    • 3+ Years Required; 5+ Years PreferredPhysical Requirements
      • Sedentary WorkCareer Level7ICRequired Qualifications:
        • Minimum of 3+ years' financial services experiencePreferred Qualifications:
          • 2-4 years of experience in investment banking, buy-side credit research, sell-side or desk credit research, or leveraged finance capital markets
          • Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
          • Proficiency in Excel; working knowledge of Bloomberg
          • Strong quantitative, analytical and financial modeling abilities
          • Self-starter with the ability to work well under pressure, prioritize and multitask
          • Strong communication and writing skills
          • High attention to detail
          • Teamwork orientedAnticipated Posting End Date: 2025-02-20Base Pay Range: $90,000/yr. - $125,000/yr.Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked to performance (for example, annual discretionary incentive programs, non-annual sales incentive plans, or other non-annual incentive plans).
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