Corporate Credit Associate

Read the business news headlines over a cup of coffee.

Arrive at work - should be an interesting day. I have a lenders conference call for a new financing request, a client’s pitch in two days, a new transaction analysis to be submitted to Risk Management by the end of the day, a few internal meetings, and certainly a lot of things that will come up during the day.

Quick discussion with my managers regarding the workload, priorities, status of my work, and deadlines. Multitasking and knowing how to prioritize is essential.

Review the latest presentation and dial in for the conference call. It looks like an interesting transaction coming up!

Back to the upcoming client pitch for an M&A transaction... finally done! The Managing Director of my team makes some suggestions, which I incorporate into the presentation, and we head over to discuss with the Investment Banking team.

Lunch at my desk, review the morning’s breaking business news.

Back to my transaction analysis that needs to be submitted to Risk Management today. The Business, Industry and Financial analysis reports are done. Now I have to focus on the model and run a few sensitivity scenarios.

Investment Banking team calls - they want to get together in two hours for a final beat-up session for the PowerPoint presentation I’ve been working on.

Senior Derivatives Managing Director calls the VP&D; he wants to do a swap that will require approval from Risk Management. VP&D asks me to prepare the memo. One hour turnaround required.

Back to my model...

Finally my transaction analysis is ready and VP&D reviews it. He is pleased with my work and has a few changes that I need to incorporate. It takes about another hour and the analysis is ready to be submitted up the chain for approval.

End of day. Check emails. Turns out I’m involved in a client meeting tomorrow morning and a client golf tournament next week! Confirm tomorrow’s schedule... it looks like it will be another exciting day.