Position Title: Intern
Entity: KBRA Europe
Location: Dublin, Ireland or London, UK
KBRA is seeking an Intern for our Funds team in the Dublin/London office. The Funds team assigns and monitors credit ratings on various debt instruments issued by funds, closed-end funds, and other fund vehicles. KBRA’s growing ratings portfolio encompasses funds which leverage a variety of asset growth and income generation strategies including fixed income securities, private equity, private credit, and middle market lending. A strong candidate will have an interest in fund investment and credit strategies.
Key Job Requirements:
- Provide general analytical support for KBRA’s credit analysts, including sectoral research.
- Develop reporting mechanisms for fund performance metrics in collaboration with credit analysts.
- Develop spreadsheets and analytical materials to support the ratings process.
- Develop and maintain complex spreadsheets and databases.
- Manually pull and manipulate financial information.
- Contribute to data analysis and research support.
- Ability to leverage and seamlessly collaborate with KBRA experts in other sectors such as project finance, corporate finance, financial institutions, and structured finance.
- Assist in research for internal and publication purposes.
Key Skills/Experience:
- Post-graduate concentration in finance, economics, accounting, math or data analytics.
- Strong Excel skills. You must be able to easily manipulate and format data sets. Good to have data analytical skills using Python, R or SQL
- Strong oral and written communications skills.
- Ability to work as an integral part of a highly collaborative team and across disciplines in a challenging and dynamic environment.
- Extremely high attention to detail.
- Effective verbal, written and presentation skills are essential.
- Comfortable in a multinational environment.
Fluency in more than one language is most helpful.
About Us
KBRA (Kroll Bond Rating Agency, LLC) is a full-service credit rating agency registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as an NRSRO. Kroll Bond Rating Agency Europe Limited is registered as a CRA with the European Securities and Markets Authority. Kroll Bond Rating Agency UK Limited is registered as a CRA with the UK Financial Conduct Authority pursuant to the Temporary Registration Regime. In addition, KBRA is designated as a designated rating organization by the Ontario Securities Commission for issuers of asset-backed securities to file a short form prospectus or shelf prospectus. KBRA is also recognized by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners as a Credit Rating Provider.
