• Job Description

  Req#: R20054275

  Job Description Summary

  Job Description

  Investment Analyst (Distressed Securities)

  Permanent

  London or Edinburgh (typically 3 days in the office per week, 2 from home)

  Closing date: 21st February 2024

  Aegon Asset Management is a leading global investor, our employees work from 13 locations across Europe, the Americas and Asia. We advise on assets for a global client base of pension plans, public funds, insurance companies, banks, wealth managers, family offices and foundations. We share a common belief in fundamental, research-driven active management, underpinned by effective risk management and a commitment to responsible investment.

  Our people are our greatest asset, and we want Aegon Asset Management to be a place where they can bring their authentic self to work and do all they can to deliver on our strategic promises to our customers.

  We help people live their best lives. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter.

  Working in either London or Edinburgh we have a fantastic permanent opportunity for an Investment Analyst (Distressed Securities) to join our Specialist Situations and Distressed Group Credit team. You will provide analytical support of public and private distressed and stressed securities, with a focus on supporting our European Leverage Finance business. This is a varied role where you will:

  • Look at developing and maintaining updated financial models, operating assessments, industry overviews, and market information to support both investment recommendations and portfolio management.
  • Work with the team, developing proficiency with the legal elements of distressed debt investing and cultivate a firm grasp of reading and understanding credit documents (credit agreements, indentures, plans of reorganisation).
  • Provide ongoing monitoring of holdings to identify changes in company fundamentals, industry conditions, or security valuations that may alter the investment thesis.
  • Present and debate investment recommendations with The Special Situations & Distressed Credit teams and also our Global Leveraged Finance teams.
  • Compile regular reports for portfolio and risk management, assisting in day-to-day portfolio tracking analysis and reporting.
  • Support global Leveraged Finance platform by performing analysis and diligence on stressed/distressed situations as needed.
  • Develop and also maintain strong working relationships with our colleagues in global research teams (e.g., High Yield, Leveraged Loans, Emerging Markets, Investment Grade, Securitised Products).
  • Develop and maintain sell-side, buy-side, and advisory relationships (with outside financial, legal, and industry experts).

  We’d love to hear from you if you have:

  • Experience working in Investment Banking - restructuring, distressed debt, high yield, or leveraged loan experience and/or sell-side distressed.
  • Experience in business valuation, financial statement analysis, securities analysis, law, and international finance (including emerging markets).
  • Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
  • Advanced financial modelling skills, including three-statement models, capital structure tables, comparable company tables, sensitivity tables, DCF analysis, LBO analysis, and enterprise value calculations.
  • Strong reasoning and communication skills.

  What’s in it for you?

  • A competitive salary, depending on the experience you can bring
  • A non-contributory pension between 9%-13%
  • A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance
  • 27 days leave per year (plus bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)

  We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our staff live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.

  We serve a diverse, ever-changing world. It's tough, but we work tirelessly to leave things better than we find them. If that sounds like the sort of place you'd like to work, hit the "Apply" button.

  The legal bits

  We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.

  This role falls in scope of the Certification Functions subject to the Senior Manager and Certification Regime, your ongoing employment is conditional upon you being deemed a fit and proper person and maintaining your certification

  Additional Job Description

  Equal Opportunity Employer:

  We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age

• About the company

  We are active global investors. In a complex world we think and act across traditional boundaries. We organize our teams globally by asset class, so bring the breadth and depth of our investment and research capabilities together for clients across the...

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