Credit Analyst (HY & IG)

Role Overview

We have partnered with a leading global asset manager looking to hire a Senior CreditAnalyst to join their Global Fixed Income team in London.

This is a high-impact, desk-based role sitting directly with Portfolio Managers, where you will contribute to investment decisions, trade ideas, and P&L across a range of funds. It is a genuinely hands-on seat with real responsibility from day one.

The platform is an independent, award-winning franchise with a long track record of strong performance and continued AUM growth, supported by consistent inflows and expanding institutional demand. The fixed income business represents a significant portion of firm-wide assets and has delivered particularly strong results across investment grade, high yield, strategic income, and convertible bond strategies.

The core of the role is credit analysis, with a clear tilt towards BB-rated high yield and crossover credit, alongside some investment grade exposure. In addition, the role includes coverage of the firm’s convertible bond strategies, working closely with the investment team based in France (convertible bonds experience is a plus but not required).

You will contribute across multiple flagship funds within the team, gaining broad exposure across strategies and geographies while operating in a collaborative, high-performing environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct bottom-up fundamental credit analysis across BB-rated high yield and investment grade issuers, with a focus on crossover credit
• Cover convertible bond issuers, incorporating equity upside analysis and optionality into investment views
• Build and maintain detailed financial models across both credit and equity frameworks
• Cover approximately 50+ companies across multiple funds, including high yield, investment grade, strategic income, and convertible bond strategies
• Generate trade ideas and relative value opportunities across the capital structure
• Contribute directly to P&L through idea generation, conviction, and implementation
• Provide input on position sizing alongside Portfolio Managers
• Expand coverage within the BB-rated high yield universe
• Participate in investment committees, presenting both credit and equity perspectives
• Monitor news flow and provide timely updates on portfolio positions
• Work closely with international colleagues, particularly the France-based convertible bond team
• Support client discussions and articulate investment views where required

Requirements & Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in credit analysis, ideally within a buy-side environment or in a role closely aligned with Portfolio Managers
• Strong core skillset in credit analysis, particularly across high yield and crossover credit, with some exposure to investment grade
• Experience in either convertible bonds, equity research, or equity analysis, with the ability to assess equity upside within capital structures
• Advanced financial modelling skills across credit and/or equity
• Strong understanding of fixed income markets, instruments, and portfolio construction
• Proven ability to think about trade ideas, relative value, and implementation, not just fundamental analysis
• Strong academic background
• Versatile and adaptable, able to operate across credit and equity perspectives
• Low-ego, team-oriented approach with a collaborative mindset
• Proactive, self-starting, and comfortable taking ownership
• Commercially minded, with a focus on investment outcomes and P&L impact
• Clear and confident communicator, able to articulate views internally and externally