Senior Analyst

**Company Profile**

Fitch Ratings is a global credit rating agency, dual-headquartered in New York and London and with 49 further offices worldwide. We are dedicated to providing independent and prospective credit opinions, research and data, which deliver meaning and utility to investors, issuers and other market participants. Our global expertise draws on local market knowledge and spans the fixed-income universe. The context, perspective and insights we provide help investors make important credit judgments with confidence.

Fitch Ratings, Fitch Solutions are part of the Fitch Group, together with Fitch Learning. The Fitch Group is 100% owned by Hearst.

At Fitch, we have an open culture where employees are able to exchange ideas and perspectives, throughout the organization, irrespective of their seniority. Your voice will be heard allowing you to have a real impact. We embrace diversity and appreciate authenticity, employees work in an environment where they can be their true selves. Our inclusive and progressive approach helps us to keep a balanced perspective.

With our expertise, we are not only creating data and information, but also producing timely insights from every angle to influence decision-making in this ever-changing and highly competitive market. We have a relentless hunger to innovate and unlock the power of human insights and drive value for our customers. There has never been a better time to make an impact and we invite you to join us on this journey.

**Department Overview**:
This role, covering Saudi Arabia based issuers is within the Business Relationship Management (“BRM”) group in Riyadh, which leads business development and marketing efforts for Fitch Ratings. The BRM group is responsible for the development of the Ratings portfolio, specifically focused on originating new business, relationship management and retention, and developing strategies to support long-term sustainable growth. The teams’ remit is broad covering Government-Related Entities and Private sector companies across multiple sectors specifically, natural resources, utilities, real estate, healthcare, industrials, FMCG, transportation and more. Given the diversification of local markets, BRM coverage may at times crossover resulting in sector collaboration with financial institutions, structured finance, infrastructure finance and public finance teams.

**Role and Responsibilities**:
The role will involve supporting the senior regional BRM staff and the country GM in all facets of Relationship Management:

- Relationship Management with both existing issuers and targeted issuers.
- Researching and prospecting new business targets
- supporting the country GM with new mandate opportunities (including, direct marketing, arranging target meetings and supporting the team at new business and existing relationship meetings)
- Preparing marketing pitchbooks plus other materials required for engagement with target issuers and existing issuers
- Assisting with Issuer outreach (including webinars and marketing campaigns)
- Support contract negotiation and other duties / administration with external counterparties including preparing Engagement Letters, Confidentiality Agreements and Hold Harmless Letters required for rating mandates
- Engagement with the BRM Corporates Banker and Investor Development Teams and also Analytical colleagues on target names and existing relationships
- Preparing weekly reports for Corporates BRM (Pipeline, Deal-Tracker) as well as optimising internal processes related to billings, contract renegotiations, etc. and trend analysis, for example of market shares, debt issuance activity, gaps analysis, new mandates, split ratings, withdrawals etc.
- Delivering content to strategically important market participants in the kingdom. The objective is to ensure that targeted groups can be readily reached through well-researched and up-to-date contact lists maintained in our CRM, based on a contact tiering system.

**Qualifications and Experience Required**:

- Fluency in both Arabic & English is essential.
- Knowledge of the KSA/GCC markets including large & conglomerate corporates.
- Previous experience in a financial services environment. Exposure to debt capital markets is an advantage.
- Strong interpersonal skills, able to communicate confidently with senior members of Corporate Treasury teams (including Treasurers and CFOs)
- Demonstrable knowledge of preparing marketing materials using Microsoft Word and Power Point, as well as strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- Knowledge of capital market data systems such as Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Dealogic, etc.
- Ability to work independently within a strategic framework, with supervision and guidance from senior team members.
- Highly proactive, organised and self-motivated: ability to generate ideas and demonstrate initiative, tenacity and perseverance both individually and within a team.

**Application**:
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