Corporate Credit Analyst Intern

Summary of Role

As a Corporate Credit Analyst Intern, you'll be an integral part of a collaborative, close-knit team within Eldridge Capital Management's Investment Grade Fixed Income group. The team focuses on investment-grade private credit — including structured finance, asset-based finance, corporates, and direct origination — investing on behalf insurance general accounts. This is a full-time summer internship, working closely with and reporting to the team's analysts, based out of our office in Des Moines, Iowa.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Analysis and Investment Due Diligence: Assist the team in preparing models and conducting financial analysis and due diligence on existing and prospective investment-grade private credit investments — understanding business performance, operating trends, financial forecasts, industry dynamics, and overall risk. This includes helping prepare financial models, investment memoranda, and other business analyses.
• Investment Origination: Assist the team in diligence related to originating IG private credit investments suitable to the portfolio's risk and return objectives.
• Portfolio Management: Assist in portfolio management activities including trade support, pricing, audit/finance/investment operations requests, legal documentation, and regulatory matters.
• Reporting: Support ad hoc and periodic reporting on portfolios of assets and specific investments.

Qualifications

Students eligible for the internship will be current, full-time students available to work full-time (up to 40 hours a week) over the summer.

• Progress toward degrees in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related fields
• Demonstrated interest in investment management and basic understanding of financial markets
• Ideal candidate will be well organized, independent, entrepreneurial, assertive, self-motivated, detail oriented and able to work in a fast-paced environment on multiple projects
• Ideal candidate will be intellectually curious, possessing a strong desire to understand complex transactions and situations in a dynamic environment
• Hard-working with a team-oriented approach
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work well with people at all levels of the organization and develop/maintain external relationships
• Robust skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with proficiency in other Microsoft Office applications