Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
Are you ready to accelerate your career in the dynamic world of leveraged finance? Join J.P. Morgan's EMEA Leveraged Finance Trading desk, where your credit analysis skills and market insight will help drive trading revenues and maintain our market leadership. The business trades High Yield Bonds and Leveraged Loans, both performing and stressed, and in the case of distressed debt, any successor or restructured instruments including reorganized equity. We are recruiting a desk analyst to cover Loans and Special Situations, focusing on opportunistic and stressed credits. Our client base includes top European banks, credit opportunity funds, hedge funds, CLO investors, and private equity clients.

As an Analyst or Associate on the EMEA Leveraged Finance Trading desk, you will partner with traders to generate trading revenues, manage desk inventory, and produce impactful credit commentary. Your work will support market making and help set trading levels in rapidly evolving credit situations. Fluency in French, German, or Spanish is highly desirable to support our diverse client base.

Key Responsibilities:
- Review a wide variety of credits to produce commentary and analysis, identifying profitable trading opportunities for clients and desk positions
- Formulate and express credit views and relative value across traded instruments
- Collaborate with senior desk analysts on complex credits and work independently on others
- Communicate credit developments and views in real time with traders
- Prepare concise summaries for Sales and pitch trading opportunities to fund clients
- Credit manage inventory positions, including amendments, waivers, and restructuring
- Prepare ad hoc support materials and presentations for the group and clients
- Network with market counterparts, including peer analysts, legal advisors, and restructuring advisors

Experience
- Previous experience in leveraged loans and high yield bonds credit analysis and monitoring
- Strong financial modeling and valuation skills
- Experience collaborating with senior team members to arrive at pricing and facilitate market making
- Knowledge of basic concepts of debt documentation and willingness to learn to identify documentational weaknesses

About You
- Strong work ethic and self-starter, able to work independently and as part of a larger team
- Clear and impactful communication, confident presentation skills, and ability to handle client interaction as needed
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines, handling multiple demands on time
- European language skills highly desirable (German, French or Spanish)

Qualifications
- Experience in credit analysis, including good cash flow modeling skills and understanding of company valuation
- This role encompasses the performance of UK regulated activity. The successful candidate will be subject to meeting UK regulatory requirements in the assessment of fitness, propriety, knowledge and competence and (where appropriate) approval by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and/or the Prudential Regulation Authority to carry out such activities.