Director, Latin American Financial Institutions

Job ID: 624

Position Title: Director, Latin American Financial Institutions

Working Location: New York, NY

Employment Status: Full-Time Regular

Required Experience: 5 years

Required Education: Bachelors Degree

Travel Required: 30%

Job Description
Fitch Ratings is a leading, global rating agency dedicated to providing the world's credit markets with independent and prospective credit opinions, research, and data. With 49 offices worldwide, Fitch?s global expertise, built on a foundation of local market experience, spans across capital markets in over 90 countries. Fitch is widely recognized by investors and issuers for its credible, transparent, and timely coverage.

Fitch Ratings, with headquarters in New York and London is a part of The Fitch Group, which also includes Algorithmics, the world?s leading provider of enterprise risk management solutions for financial institutions, and Fitch Training, which offers high quality analytical training for financial professionals.

The Fitch Group is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fimalac, S.A., headquartered in Paris, France. For additional information, please visit www.fitchratings.com; www.algorithmics.com; www.fitchtraining.com and www.fimalac.com


Essential Skills
We are seeking a Director for our Latin America department in our New York City location covering Latin American financial institutions. Successful candidates for this position must be able to demonstrate skills and experience that will allow for immediate primary coverage of a multi-country portfolio of Latin American financial institutions, primarily commercial banks.

Primary responsibilities as a lead analyst will include: conducting onsite management review meetings of financial institutions in the region, communicating predominantly in Spanish; performing analysis of key quantitative and qualitative factors; presenting companies to Fitch's internal credit rating committee; communicating ratings and rating rationale to senior management; and writing and publishing research reports and participating in the evaluation of financial institution credits. Position will also require active role in assisting in related industry studies as well as active participation in national ratings conducted by regional offices.

The qualified candidate should have 5+ years of direct experience covering the financial services industry with an emphasis on evaluating commercial banks, preferably internationally active commercial banks. Prior positions may include fixed income/equity analyst, counterparty credit analyst or bank examiner. Must be a self-motivated professional with strong credit and spreadsheet analysis skills, have excellent writing and communication skills and the ability to handle numerous projects simultaneously. Spanish fluency required. Bachelors degree required. MBA and/or CFA preferred.

Fitch Ratings complies with federal, state, and local laws governing employment, and provides equal opportunity to all applicants and employees. All applications will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, domestic partnership, sexual orientation, and other status protected by applicable laws.

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