Octus
Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. Since 2013, tens of thousands of professionals across hedge fund, investment banking, management consulting, and law firm verticals have come to rely on Octus to make better, faster, and more confident decisions in pace with the fast-moving credit markets.
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Working at Octus
Octus hires growth-minded innovators and trailblazers across the globe to drive our business and culture. Our core values – Action Oriented, Customer First Mindset, Effective Team Players, and Driven to Excel – define an organizational ethos that’s as high-performing as it is human. Among other perks, Octus employees enjoy competitive health benefits, matched 401k and pension plans, PTO, generous parental leave, gym subsidies, educational reimbursements for career development, recognition programs, and much more.
Role
The Operations Associate will join Octus’s Global Covenants Operations team in the Bogotá office. This is a high-impact, detail-oriented role for someone who is curious, learns quickly and can thrive at the intersection of financial data, operational precision and fast-paced delivery. For the right candidate, this role also opens a pathway to contribute to Octus’ Covenant operations workflows, broadening exposure to legal documentation, credit data and analysis.
Responsibilities
- Search for documents (credit agreements, lender presentations) and review them to identify the right credit instruments and transaction terms
- Create database records for new transactions, applying consistent data standards and quality checks
- Maintain and update deal status data, ensuring accuracy and completeness
- Ensure strict adherence to compliance processes related to private and confidential documents, including permissioning entitled clients and executing client list reconciliations
- Track the syndicated loan and high yield bond primary markets using multiple proprietary data feeds
- Collaborate with the commercial team and act as a reliable point of contact for data queries over time
- Support workflows across other products served by the operations team, including liaising with data teams worldwide and London/US counterparts on data initiatives
- Contribute to operational projects and process improvements as needed
- University degree
- Exceptional organizational and time management skills
- Curious mindset with a willingness to learn new processes, tools, and industry concepts
- Meticulous attention to detail; accuracy is non-negotiable in this role
- Logical mindset
- Clear, professional communication in English, both written and verbal
- Interest in financial services, legal documentation or financial data
- Proactive and collaborative team player with strong interpersonal skills and a client-first mindset
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Comfortable working with spreadsheets and data sets
- Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues across teams and time zones
- Working knowledge of AI tools and large language models (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) for data extraction, document analysis or process automation; experience building AI-assisted workflows is a plus
Equal Employment Opportunity
Octus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse work environment where all individuals are valued, respected, and treated fairly. We believe that diversity enriches our workplace and enhances our ability to innovate and succeed.
Skills Required
- Outstanding organizational and time management skills, with excellent attention to detail
- Demonstrated ability to manage and manipulate large data sets in spreadsheets
- University degree or equivalent qualification
- Ability to write professionally in English
- Interest in financial services and/or legal subjects, and data management
- Proactive and collaborative team player
- Ability to prioritize effectively among multiple tasks and work effectively to client deadlines
Octus Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO, sick leave, paid holidays, and floating holidays are described as generous, indicating a broad time‑off offering. Some materials also reference summer hours.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is positioned as generous for primary and secondary caregivers, alongside family medical leave and amenities like onsite Mother’s Rooms in some locations.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) is offered with employer matching cited in multiple postings, and some markets reference pension plans in addition to the 401(k).
Octus Insights
What We Do
Octus, was founded in 2013 with a simple conviction: credit decisions deserve clarity, not chaos. Markets were fragmented. Intelligence was gated. Data lived in silos. Professionals were forced to stitch together incomplete pictures while the clock kept running. We built Octus to change that. Octus is the essential credit platform that tracks the entire credit lifecycle. From origination and underwriting to secondary trading, refinancing, distress and restructuring, we follow every development across leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, private credit and special situations. We structure millions of documents, surface risks, benchmark performance and deliver expert reporting and analysis in real time. What began as a newsroom fused with legal and financial expertise has evolved into a unified ecosystem. Octus brings together proprietary data, expert-driven intelligence and integrated workflow tools so credit professionals can analyze situations, uncover opportunities, manage portfolios, execute trades and stay compliant without ever leaving the platform. Insight and action finally live in one place. Today, nearly 40,000 professionals across the world’s leading banks, asset managers, CLO managers, law firms and advisors rely on Octus to move smarter and faster. They turn to us for breadth, depth and rigor forged over more than a decade, and for the speed, integration and precision that define the future of credit workflow. Our mission is direct and ambitious: end fragmentation, collapse the distance between intelligence and execution, and transform insight into impact. Because in credit, clarity isn’t just an advantage. It’s everything. Octus: Where credit becomes clear.
Why Work With Us
Octus is where real experts work together to cut through chaos and build clarity in credit. You feel your impact here. What you create shapes real decisions in the market. The problems matter. The people are sharp. If you want work that counts, this is the place.
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Octus Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Reorg has adopted a hybrid working policy. For non-remote employees located within a reasonable commuting distance to one of our offices, the requirement is to work from the office at least 2 days per week.
