CLO Analyst London 2024

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Job Description

U.S. Bank Global Corporate Trust Services is one of the largest providers of corporate trust services in the world. Our clients look to us for trustee, agency, escrow, document custody and money market issuing services via our 48 domestic offices and three international offices. We are currently hiring into our market leading CLO business in London.

The preferred candidate will bring some knowledge of CLO or CDO Transactions and understand their structure from a cash flow perspective, but we are also very open to engaging with candidates with a structured finance, loans or debt aligned fund accounting background and other areas of the market - combined with a genuine passion for the role.

The team is one of the most client facing teams in the business and the CLO Analyst role is dynamic, fast paced and offers a good mix of analytical work in addition to the client engagement part, also dealing with investor queries and numerous internal teams to ensure the highest client service levels are delivered.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing value added partnerships with Relationship Management and Deal Administration to assist in client deliverables and improving defining process and techniques to improve efficiency and delivery
• Responsible for ongoing transaction deliverables including Waterfalls, Investor Reports, Hypothetical test trades)
• Calculate various portfolio statistics, ratios and thresholds for use in hypothetical trading scenarios and periodic reporting
• Read and interpret trust indentures with regard to reporting requirements and create technical report specifications from indenture language
• Set up payment calculations in a variety of in-house systems
• Receive, map and reconcile periodic collateral data
• Liaise with business partners (Technology, Legal, Compliance, Trustee, Relationship Management, Deal Admin and Sales) to ensure highest client service levels in compliance with US Bank standards
• Provide Innovative client solutions
• Use SQL and other software to manipulate the considerable amount of collateral-related information maintained in the US Bank database

Key Skills Required

• Strong problem-solving skills
• Some knowledge of CDO's or CLO's - structured products / Securitisation / Corporate Trust / Debt Capital Markets
• Experience working with Financial Models would be advantageous including advanced Excel
• Ability to identify and resolve exceptions and to interpret data
• Ability to perform multiple tasks and meet established deadlines in a dynamic working environment with minimal supervision
• Market awareness
• Effective interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Building and maintaining partnerships both internally and externally
• Documentation review skills
• Strategic thinking
• Complex analytic transaction skills

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.