Credit Analyst

Your team Pictet Wealth Management combines more than 200 years of Swiss banking heritage with global investment expertise. The Partner-owned financial services group offers a comprehensive range of services for wealthy individuals and families, including discretionary and advisory investment solutions and family office services. You will work as a credit analyst covering various sectors, especially TMT, Chemicals and Metals & Mining (both IG and HY) in developed markets, focusing on identifying selected opportunities that offer the right balance of return and risk. Your role • To monitor the major trends and risks in the industries/sectors for which you are responsible. • To maintain and publish a credit outlook regarding the fundamentals for these industries, together with a view on the drivers of their credit valuations.• To conduct fundamental research on the core issuers that fall within your remit, including performing financial analyses, meeting company managements, carrying out industry analysis, attending conferences and interacting with various teams.• To issue high-conviction and executable bond recommendations that reflect a range of risk appetites and investment strategies, from core-holdings in defensive portfolios to more opportunistic or risky instruments (corp hybrid, not rated) in more offensive portfolios.• To present the most significant recommendations and sector views to PWM’s internal constituents and clients.• To actively market your recommendations and contribute to credit publications. • To contribute to the credit team’s discussions on individual ideas, with a view to setting convictions within the wider research team. • To assist portfolio managers in assessing various instruments and private client portfolios.• To contribute with other research team members to efforts to develop and articulate a clear Credit Strategy, including help the CIO office strengthen PWM’s view on credit positioning. Your profile • Extensive credit experience, ideally as a buy-side analyst for an asset or wealth manager and, if not, as a sell-side analyst for an investment