Role Overview:
We are seeking an Investment Analyst to join our Secured Finance team. The successful individual will focus on analysing and recommending structured finance investments across the capital structure from Investment Grade debt to Unrated instruments.
Role Responsibilities:
- Modelling and evaluating investment opportunities in bespoke transactions across a diverse opportunity set (CMBS, Speciality Finance, CLOs, RMBS, etc).
- Presenting findings to assist senior members of the team in making investment decisions.
- Assisting senior members of the team with ad hoc tasks as required.
- Liaise with internal stakeholders as required, including but not limited to: Compliance, Legal, Risk, Investment Committee.
- Support any other investment opportunities and investment management activities for the Secured Finance Group from time to time as required.
Experience Required:
- Ideally, experience at an asset management company or bank.
- Strong interest in Financial Markets.
- Strong investment analysis experience, with a background in the structured finance asset class preferred.
- Experience in Excel Modelling / VBA.
- Familiar with Bloomberg / Intex.
- Flexible and comfortable with changing priorities depending on workload.
- Execution and detail oriented whilst working under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Able to work well independently, and take direction as required.
- Highly quantitative with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Interest in technology and how tools such as AI can support internal processes and better outcomes for clients.
Insight Investment is an equal opportunities employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at [email protected]
About Insight Investment:
Insight Investment is a leading asset manager focused on designing investment solutions to meet its clients' needs. Founded in 2002, Insight's collaborative approach has delivered both investment performance and growth in assets under management. Insight manages assets across its core liability-driven investment, risk management, full-spectrum fixed income, currency and absolute return capabilities. Insight has a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia. More information about Insight Investment can be found at: https://www.insightinvestment.com/corporate/
Skills Required
- Experience at an asset management company or bank
- Strong interest in financial markets
- Strong investment analysis experience
- Background in structured finance asset class
- Experience in Excel modelling
- Experience with VBA
- Familiarity with Bloomberg
- Familiarity with Intex
- Flexible and comfortable with changing priorities
- Execution and detail oriented under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Able to work independently and take direction
- Highly quantitative with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Interest in technology and use of AI to support processes
What We Do
Insight* is one of Europe’s largest investment managers** responsible for £626.2bn/€757.3bn*** in assets under management (AUM) across fixed income, risk management strategies including liability-driven investment (LDI) and currency risk management, absolute return and multi-asset capabilities. Based in London, Insight is a specialist asset manager with a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia. Our clients include pension funds, corporates, local authorities, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, wealth managers, financial institutions and supranationals. Insight's mission is to offer investors a different approach to achieving their investment goals; one that prioritises the certainty of meeting their chosen objectives in contrast to the traditional focus on maximising return and minimising volatility. Read our mission statement here: www.insightinvestment.com/uk/introducing-insight/our-mission-statement/ We believe responsible investment means helping our clients achieve their desired outcomes and reflecting their priorities. We aim to identify, assess and manage factors that we deem to be financially material, while also reflecting our clients’ sustainability preferences. We were a founding signatory to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2006. For more on Insight’s approach to responsible investment, visit https://www.insightinvestment.com/investing-responsibly Posts are intended for UK/EU professional investors only. Capital at risk. *Insight is the corporate brand for certain companies operated by Insight Investment Management Limited (IIML). **IPE, ‘Top 500 Asset Managers’ survey, June 2024. Insight is ranked fifth out of the top 120 European institutional managers by total AUM for external Europe-domiciled institutional clients. ***As at 31 December 2024. AUM are represented by the value of cash securities and other economic exposure managed for clients.
