Werde Vice President, Sovereign Ratings bei Morningstar in Frankfurt am Main und gestalte deine Karriere

DBRS Morningstar’s Global Sovereign Ratings Group seeks a curious and highly motivated analyst with prior sovereign credit analysis experience. The analyst will join a small international team in either Frankfurt or Madrid as a Vice President. The successful candidate will conduct credit analysis and write topical research on a variety of sovereign issuers, Supra-national institutions and Government Related Entities. The role will suit an individual passionate about working collaboratively with colleagues and communicating with public sector debt issuers and relevant government departments and financial institutions, to identify and understand the impact of emerging credit risks.

Responsibilities:

• Assigning, reviewing and monitoring credit ratings. This includes formulating rating opinions and writing interesting and relevant topical research.
• Participating in the development of rating methodologies.
• Developing and maintaining analytical tools and reports for internal and external use.
• Keeping track of institutional, political, geopolitical and economic developments that impact public sector issuers.
• Meeting with issuers, investors and other market participants as required to discuss DBRS Morningstar’s Ratings and research messaging.

Qualifications:

• University degree in accounting, business, economics or a related discipline.
• Minimum 8-10 years’ work experience, preferably in sovereign or other public sector credit risk analysis.
• Attention to detail in written and data work.
• Excellent written and oral English language skills.
• Other spoken language proficiency, such as in Italian, French or Spanish.

About Us

DBRS Morningstar is a global credit ratings business, currently with 700 employees in eight offices globally. Formed through the July 2019 acquisition of DBRS by Morningstar, Inc., the ratings business is the fourth-largest provider of credit ratings in the world.

DBRS Morningstar is committed to empowering investor success, serving the market through leading-edge technology and raising the bar for the industry. DBRS Morningstar is a market leader in Canada, the U.S. and Europe in multiple asset classes.

DBRS Morningstar rates more than 2,600 issuers and 54,000 securities worldwide and is driven to bringing more clarity, diversity of opinion, and responsiveness to the ratings process. DBRS Morningstar’s approach and size provide the agility to respond to customers’ needs, while being large enough to provide the necessary expertise and resources.

If you received and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.

Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. While some positions are available as fully remote, we’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, typically three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you’ll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.