CLO Analyst
About this role
At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.
We actively uphold transparent and fair hiring practices that support individual opportunity, inclusive culture, and career mobility across all levels of our organisation.
We offer meaningful opportunities for growth, a culture of inclusion, and a strong commitment to transparency and integrity in everything we do.
Job Description
U.S. Bank Global Corporate Trust Services is one of the largest providers of corporate trust services in the world. Our clients look to us for trustee, agency, escrow, document custody and money market issuing services via our 48 domestic offices and three international offices. We are currently hiring into our market leading CLO business and into the CLO Analytics team.
The team is one of the most client facing teams in the business and the CLO Analyst role is dynamic, fast paced and offers a good mix of analytical and calculation-based activities in addition engaging with our clients, dealing with investor queries, rating agencies and numerous internal teams to ensure the highest client service levels are delivered.
Responsibilities
- Develop value-added partnerships with Relationship Management and Deal Administration to assist in client deliverables and define processes and techniques to improve efficiency and delivery.
- Manage ongoing transaction deliverables, including waterfalls, investor reports, and hypothetical test trades.
- Calculate various portfolio statistics, ratios, and thresholds for use in hypothetical trading scenarios and periodic reporting.
- Read and interpret trust indentures regarding reporting requirements and create technical report specifications from indenture language.
- Set up payment calculations in a variety of in-house systems.
- Receive, map, and reconcile periodic collateral data.
- Liaise with business partners (Technology, Legal, Compliance, Trustee, Relationship Management, Deal Administration, and Sales) to ensure the highest client service levels in compliance with US Bank standards.
- Provide innovative client solutions.
- Use SQL and other software to manipulate the considerable amount of collateral-related information maintained in the US Bank database.
- Experience and Key Skills Required
- Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, accounting, or a related field, or the equivalent work experience.
- Work Experience:
- 3-5 years of relevant experience, preferably with exposure to or understanding of CLOs / Syndicated bank loans / Fixed income securities / Securitisation / Debt capital markets
- Technical Skills:
- Strong problem-solving abilities.
- Experience with financial models and advanced Excel skills (advantageous).
- Ability to identify and resolve exceptions and interpret data accurately.
- Competencies:
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment with minimal supervision.
- Market awareness and strategic thinking.
- Effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
- Client-centric approach with strong partnership-building skills (internal and external).
- Documentation review skills.
- Complex analytical transaction skills.
- Location expectations
- This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week. (London - Old Broad Street Office)