Octus
Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. Since 2013, tens of thousands of professionals across hedge fund, investment banking, management consulting, and law firm verticals have come to rely on Octus to make better, faster, and more confident decisions in pace with the fast-moving credit markets.
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Working at Octus
Octus hires growth-minded innovators and trailblazers across the globe to drive our business and culture. Our core values – Action Oriented, Customer First Mindset, Effective Team Players, and Driven to Excel – define an organizational ethos that’s as high-performing as it is human. Among other perks, Octus employees enjoy competitive health benefits, matched 401k and pension plans, PTO, generous parental leave, gym subsidies, educational reimbursements for career development, recognition programs, pet-friendly offices (US only), and much more.
Role
Ocuts’s Fundamentals Analyst program seeks to provide a gateway into a long-term career in finance and asset management for hard working, intellectually curious, and motivated candidates. Models built on the Fundamentals platform are used by our clients for monitoring and evaluating company performance and credit metrics of private debt issuers. You will receive instruction in concepts such as financial statement analysis, valuation frameworks, accounting, capital structure analysis, company and industry analysis, credit market ratios, restructuring scenarios and capital markets activity / theory. You will contribute to a collaborative and action-oriented team environment.
Responsibilities:
- Prepare detailed financial models (including P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, Capital Structure, Relative Performance metrics and Ratio Analysis)
- Build and maintain a coverage universe of financial models that are updated quarterly and for key events
- Prepare and review flash analysis for the Fundamentals coverage universe
- Participate in ad hoc projects to improve the quality of the data set and product
- Contribute to continuous improvement by providing inputs on our data products and your daily work flows such that we can continue to evolve and improve
Requirements:
- Graduates with degrees in economics, accounting or finance
- An ability to interpret financial statements to evaluate business performance and understand the relationship between business drivers and financial performance, including the ability to model out these relationships quantitatively
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the tenacity to resolve complex issues
- Strong interest in credit market or financial markets in general
- Desire to learn and apply your newly acquired skills to grow professionally and personally
- CFA is a plus
Equal Employment Opportunity
Octus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse work environment where all individuals are valued, respected, and treated fairly. We believe that diversity enriches our workplace and enhances our ability to innovate and succeed.
