Credit Analyst, Credit Research

Position: Credit Analyst, Credit Research

Location: 100 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005

Duties:

• Responsible for proactively monitoring Paper and Packaging, Metals and Mining, and Midstream sectors and taking the lead in making recommendations for portfolios supporting global insurance products. 
• Conduct in-depth market research across assigned sectors to support investment recommendations including key trends and competitive landscape in assigned sectors, review of company financial reports, earnings and news releases, and analyze relative value within and across industry sectors for various investment portfolios.
• Monitor, gather, and organize information crtical to the credit investment decision process. 
• Calculate key credit metrics, particularly liquidity, leverage, and cash flow ratios.
• Identify potential new investments for the portfolios.
• Prepare oral and written analyses and summaries to key stake holders across the firm.
• Apply detailed understanding of each bonds' position in the capital structure.
• Maintain relationships with sell-side analyst, rating agencies and company management to keep up to date on investment opportunities. 
• Update and manage relevant internal and external sources of data. 
• Conduct ad hoc projects, analyses, and other support to relevant stakeholders as required. 
• Assess Global Investment's AI needs by collaborating closely with Aflac Digital Services, Global Security, Compliance, Data and IT to ensure enterprise alignment. 
• Work with various teams across Global Investments to explore new business-specific tools through industry conferences, peer studies, and vendor relations. 
• Evaluate the feasibility and business impact of AI tools, conducting operational reviews, tests, risk assessments and cost & benefit analysis. 
• Lead the design and validation of proof - of - concepts for AI tools, ensuring alignment with business needs and clear success measures. 
• Translate pilots into scaled deployment by coordinating project leads, technical staff, and business stakeholders. 

Minimum Requirements:

• Must have a Master's in Finance, Business Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, or similar quantitative discipline.

• Work or educational background must have included demoonstrated proficiency with:
  • Using developed quantitative models and multi-variant assumptions.
  • Running regression models and stress testing of portfolio holdings; along with various scenario-based events. 
  • Applying knowledge of bond calculations, asset liability management, capital calls, and underwriting of bonds. 
  • Understanding of financials, risk assessments, while qualifying macro-economic scenario events such as duration, convexity, inflation, floating vs fixed rate with a limited and broad time series models to assess appropriate allocation.
  • Automating the switch trade model using Python and VBA, resulting in reduced time spent on model running and improved efficiency. 
  • Assessing risk associated with lending to companies by considering various factors such as econnomic conditions, industry trends, commodity prices and company-specific factors. 
  • Utilizing tools and techniques including:
    • Financial Modeling
    • Python programming
    • Quant modeling
    • VBA Automation
    • Advanced Excel modeling
    • Blomberg API functions
    • Power BI
    • Microsoft Copilot
    • Prompt Engineering

• Positon may be eligible to work hybrid/remotely but is based out of and reports to Aflac offices in New York, NY. Must be able to work a minimum of 3 days a week in the New York, NY office as part of Aflac's hybrid schedule. 
• Salary Range: $112,778 - $170 ,000

Recruitment:

Apply online https://careers.aflac.com/ or email resume to Heather Manderson, Corporate Counsel, Aflac, hmanderson@aflac.com.