Corporate Infrastructure & Project Finance - Leveraged Finance, Senior Director - Chicago

As one of the world’s top three credit ratings agencies, Fitch Ratings plays a critical role in global capital markets by providing supplementary credit analysis, ratings, research, and commentary to financial market participants. For over 100 years, Fitch Ratings has been creating value for global markets through its rigorous analysis and deep expertise, which have resulted in a variety of market leading tools, methodologies, indices, research, and analytical products.

Fitch Ratings is part of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries, which also includes Fitch Solutions. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.

At Fitch Ratings, credit analysts play a pivotal role in moving markets, as quality credit analysis is the lifeblood of our organization. With a legacy of over a century, our unique approach to credit ratings offers unmatched opportunities for professional growth. Embracing a “challenger mindset,” you'll join a team dedicated to innovating service to our clients. Our people-driven analysis thrives on collaboration across all levels and locations, surpassing traditional financial modeling.

Lastly, as part of our global community, you'll find inspiration, challenge, and support, with ample opportunities for visibility and influence in the global financial marketplace.

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This role is a senior analytical, market-facing position focused on leveraged finance issuers primarily across broadly syndicated loans (BSL) and high yield bonds.

The Senior Director, Leveraged Finance will be a key thought contributor to our analytical ratings teams, providing deep credit expertise and judgment on complex and highly leveraged issuers. The role involves close collaboration with analysts to help shape credit views, particularly on more challenging credits and leveraged finance structures, while serving as a senior and visible representative of Fitch to issuers, bankers, private equity sponsors, and other market participants.

You would join a senior leadership group and manage a small team within Leveraged Finance. Analysts in the team range the junior to senior spectrum and are currently based in New York, Chicago in the U.S. and Monterrey in Mexico. You will have the opportunity to use your excellent communication skills and knowledge at external client-facing functions and internal team up-skilling.

• Extensive experience across leveraged finance markets, particularly in BSL and high yield bonds.
• A strong credit-oriented background, ideally from a buy-side, sell-side, or ratings-adjacent advisory platform.
• Demonstrated experience with leveraged loan structuring, syndication and documentation.
• Understanding of distressed debt, restructurings, and liability management transactions, and the ability to assess credit implications across stressed scenarios.
• A track record of providing analytical judgment on complex credit situations.
• Familiarity with ratings agency frameworks, methodologies, and workflow is a strong plus.
• Credibility and relationships across leveraged finance market participants, including issuers, PE sponsors, and arranging banks.
• Working familiarity with CLO market dynamics and investor considerations as they relate to the leveraged loan ecosystem (deep structuring experience not required).

• Excellent knowledge of the broadly syndicated loan market and its participants
• Excellent knowledge of loan syndication, structuring, and documentation of leveraged loans
• Clear speaking and writing communication skills
• Working knowledge of CLOs

• Hybrid…