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 Research Associate will work within and support Octus’ Global Covenants team, focusing on US leverage finance and high yield markets under the guidance of senior lawyers. The role is ideal for a qualified lawyer with experience working in the leveraged finance, capital markets, and restructuring, and with a genuine interest in applying AI to legal research and analysis. This will be a hybrid role based in the Bogotá office for an enthusiastic person who has a desire to learn and thrives in a growing, dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
- Act as a first point of support for senior lawyers in Global Covenants on day-to-day research, drafting, and analysis needs
- Establish deep working knowledge of all aspects of Octus’ Global Covenants offering, including people, process, and technology
- Research, draft, and assist with the creation of legal intelligence on leveraged loans, private credit, high yield bonds, liability management exercises, event driven analyses and other topics
- Independently update existing covenant analyses as debt instruments evolve
- Respond to simple subscriber inquiries and escalate complex queries to senior lawyers
- Conduct data extraction and trend analysis using Octus’ proprietary databases, AI, Microsoft Office, and Google Workspace
- Proactively support sales and marketing efforts for the Global Covenants team, including helping to organize webinars, events, and training
- Lead or assist with various administrative and operational projects, as needed
- Utilize AI tools to build bespoke workflows that enhance day-to-day legal research capabilities
Requirements
- Qualifications include either: (a) a law degree from a licensed Colombian university or (b) an LL.M or J.D. from an American university, with a minimum of four years’ post qualification experience, ideally at an international law firm or financial institution
- Strong fluency in English language (with working knowledge of business/legal terminology)
- Strong writing and analytical skills
- Intermediate Excel and PowerPoint skills, with the ability to distill and communicate complex, information-dense content in an easily digestible and visually appealing way
- Intermediate fluency with AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, for example) and seasoned ability to critically evaluate AI-generated output for quality and accuracy; high fluency is a strong plus
- Demonstrable interest in finance, capital markets, and related legal industries
- Outstanding organizational and time management skills, with excellent attention to detail
- Proactive and collaborative team player, with eagerness to learn and work with multiple stakeholders
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize effectively among multiple tasks, comfortable managing multiple deadline-driven matters at once
- Prior experience in leveraged finance, high yield, capital markets, restructuring, credit intelligence or credit research environment is a strong 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
- Law degree from a licensed Colombian university or an LL.M. or J.D. from an American university
- Minimum of four years of post-qualification experience
- Strong fluency in English, including business and legal terminology
- Strong writing and analytical skills
- Intermediate Excel and PowerPoint skills
- Intermediate fluency with AI tools such as ChatGPT or Claude
- Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated output for quality and accuracy
- Demonstrable interest in finance, capital markets, and related legal industries
- Outstanding organizational and time management skills, with excellent attention to detail
- Proactive and collaborative team-player mindset
- Ability to multitask and prioritize multiple deadline-driven matters
- Experience in leveraged finance, high yield, capital markets, restructuring, credit intelligence, or credit research
- High fluency with AI tools
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.
