Job Description

At abrdn, our purpose is to enable our clients to be better investors.

Clients worldwide trust us to find future-fit investment opportunities to deliver the outcomes they want. Our technology and insight help empower them to make better decisions, while the powerful partnerships we build help to enhance the expertise that we offer. And by enabling clients to invest responsibly, it helps us to build a better world.

About the Department

Fund Finance is an exciting growth business within Private Credit. We invest into investment-grade loan facilities which are used by Private Equity managers to bridge their investment activity and grow their asset portfolios. We work alongside investment banks, taking syndicated positions in bespoke, fund-level debt facilities.

About the Role

As the Investment Analyst you will get the opportunity to undertake investment analysis and monitoring of fund finance investments to ensure that credit risks are identified and managed. 

You will interact directly with our clients and liaise with banks, advisors, and financial sponsors.  In addition to supporting the team with investment work, the role will involve close interaction with the Private Credit structuring and operations teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Generate accurate credit risk ratings for fund finance investments using the internal fund finance credit rating model

• Complete ESG risk ratings for fund finance investments and carry out ongoing ESG engagement with borrowers

• Maintain the fund finance collateral database to ensure it is up to date and accurate

• Complete analysis of any ad hoc waiver and amendment requests for existing fund finance investments, providing recommendations to the Investment Director.

• Preparation of annual investment and risk rating review papers for presentation to the Fund Finance Investment Committee.

• Completion of quarterly compliance monitoring and reporting for existing fund finance investments and associated analysis

• Provide portfolio level analytics to support decision making and risk management.

About the Candidate

• Experience in credit risk analysis and credit underwriting with an understanding of covenant monitoring, financial reporting and loan documentation

• Fund finance experience, whilst desirable, is not required. However, experience working with institutional clients and/or either banks or non-bank financial institutions/financial sponsors is an advantage for this role.

• Key skills required

• Credit analysis: able to deliver detailed financial and business analysis, with a solid understanding of key credit ratios and financial covenants.

• ESG: knowledge of relevant regulation and the ability to identify and understand environmental, social and governance risks relevant

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. Therefore, if you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire and one of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment.  We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance.  We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.