Analyst - Structured Finance

Scope Ratings is looking for a Structured Finance analyst based in Milan to support the rapid growth of the largest European credit rating agency. The role offers a variety of responsibilities along with opportunities to grow in an international team and get extensive exposure within the group.

Your tasks & responsibilities
Your role is to lead or provide support across all stages and levels of Scope Ratings’ analytical processes, including:

- Acting as lead rating analyst on new ratings and on monitoring existing ratings on structured finance instruments across a broad span of asset classes, including auto ABS, consumer ABS, SME ABS, CMBS, RMBS, NPLs, CLOs, etc.
- Performing asset, counterparty, structural credit analysis, cash flow modeling, and documentation review.
- Taking part in analytical operational reviews and property site visits throughout Europe and maintaining relationships with market participants.
- Preparing, presenting, and discussing all relevant analyses in front of Scope’s rating committees.
- Writing detailed transaction reports.
- Monitoring and analysing market trends, monitoring market developments in European structured finance, and publishing timely, high-quality, insightful research.
- Support the development of Scope’s analytical capabilities and rating methodologies.
- Represent Scope structured finance franchise internally and externally.

Your professional & personal profile
- Advanced business or engineering degree with courses concentrating in finance, economics, statistics, or business administration.
- Professional experience in performing credit analysis on securitisations, credit derivatives transactions, or structured finance instruments in an advisory, investment, or credit rating agency analysis role is a plus.
- Strong analytical skills with a sound understanding and culture of the financial markets and credit fundamentals.
- Advanced business or engineering degree with courses concentrating in finance, economics, statistics, or business administration.
- Strong MS office computer skills and comfortable working with complex and disparate datasets; knowledge of Python, Power BI, or Tableau is a plus.
- CFA, CAIA, RFM, RICS, or similar certifications is a plus.
- High commitment to building and developing the largest European credit rating agency.
- Team player with excellent communication, writing, and interpersonal skills.
- Multi-cultural, collaborative, self-starter, out-of-the-box thinker, versatile, inquisitive, opinionated, and detail-oriented personality with strong problem-solving skills.
- Accountable and dynamic with the ability to work with full autonomy on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Fluent in English; other European language skills a plus

Interested?

**Please note**: for non-EU applicants, a valid work and residence permit is a prerequisite for this post.

We want to see
- Signed current CV
- Cover Letter
- Criminal record certificate (can be provided at a later date)
- At least 3 letters of reference (can be provided at a later date)
- Copy of your university degrees and certificates (can be provided at a later date)
- Copy of your visa/working permit (if applicable)

About Scope
Scope Ratings GmbH, a part of the Scope Group, is the leading European credit rating agency, with headquarters in Berlin and offices in Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Oslo, and Paris. The company specializes in the analysis and ratings of financial institutions, corporates, structured finance, project finance, and public finance. Scope Ratings GmbH offers a credit risk analysis that is opinion-driven, forward-looking, and non-mechanistic - an approach that adds to a greater diversity of opinions for institutional investors. Scope Ratings GmbH is a credit rating agency registered in accordance with the EU rating regulation and operating in the European Union with ECAI status.