Role purpose
The Investment team seeks to optimise PIC’s investment strategy in line with the firm’s risk appetite. The team aims to maximise risk adjusted returns on capital via portfolio construction and optimisation. The team is responsible for monitoring all of our investments with a particular focus on our credit portfolios and to minimising defaults and losses on investments.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct thorough credit analysis of the assigned portfolio of public and private investments in the infrastructure sector and effectively communicate those outcomes to Investment colleagues to ensure PIC accesses the full range of attractive investments.
- Take ownership of ensuring PIC has up-to-date credit opinions on all borrowers and key potential borrowers in your sector to maintain updated views on potential investments.
- Prepare internal rating recommendations that efficiently communicate your views on the credit, which can be used by different key stakeholders. This includes succinct summaries for committees with more detailed analysis aimed towards other first-line colleagues.
- Effectively collaborate with portfolio management, trading, and asset/liability colleagues to make and execute investment decisions. Given PIC has one portfolio, seamless integration is key.
Technical Requirements:
- Strong technical experience in credit rating analysis.
- Expert knowledge of infrastructure and project finance investments across different sub-sectors.
- Established knowledge of financial modelling of project finance transactions.
- Familiarity with rating methodology development.
Personal Attributes:
- Ability to persuade and influence both directly and indirectly.
- Ability to conceptualise and lead others in solving specific problems, including experience delivering analysis that is succinct, accurate, well presented, and timely.
- Ability to organise work to meet deadlines.
- Recognised qualification and/or accreditation to a professional body in the relevant field/industry/sector. CFA qualification would be desirable.
Benefits:
- 28 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Pension.
- Insurance for Travel, Private Medical, Critical Illness, Life Assurance, and Income Protection.
- Save As You Earn (SAYE).
- Bonus.
- Flexible Working.
- Dress for your Day.
- Cycle to Work.
- Fruit and snacks.
- Company events.
And more.
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