• Managed various team responsibilities including monitoring distressed credits, reporting and analyzing default trends, and providing regulatory and credit views on over 100 companies within the technology, media & telecom and diversified industrials sectors
• Analyzed the agency rating impact of M&As, LBOs and other capital markets transactions on corporate clients’ credit ratings by calculating the pro-forma agency-adjusted metrics as well as understanding the new business and financial risk profile
• Built and evaluated over 50 financial projections, stressing growth, margins, and cash flows in order to assess the credit worthiness of a company and its ability to withstand various levels of debt and ultimately determine regulatory comfort with various deal structures
• Led the development of 2 new systems within the department by partnering with other areas of the firm, including investment banking, operations, controllers, legal and technology, sorting through and ensuring data quality, and testing and enhancing user interfaces
• Presented on objective trends in the leveraged lending market using market factors (CDX spreads, leveraged loan backlog), deal terms (average flex and contractual commitment) as well as fundamental credit factors (leverage, interest coverage, LBO equity contribution)
• Mined large data sets such as market default rates for identifiable trends across different industries, ratings, and countries