Credit Trading – Private Credit Financing – Analyst

Join our team to build your career in a culture that values innovation, creativity, and excellence. As an Analyst in Credit Trading – Private Credit, you will work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, supporting the Private Credit Financing team in London. You’ll collaborate with senior analysts to assess risks, perform in-depth credit analysis, and develop valuation recommendations across a wide variety of industries. This role offers you the opportunity to grow your skills, gain exposure to diverse credit assets, and make a meaningful impact.

As an Analyst in Credit Trading – Private Credit within the Corporate & Investment Bank Credit Trading & Financing organization, you will evaluate middle market credit opportunities, perform detailed credit analysis of portfolio loan investments, and develop mark recommendations for new loan originations. You will conduct financial analysis, modeling, credit underwriting, and transaction documentation, while actively monitoring the portfolio through ongoing assessment of sector trends and quarterly financial performance. As part of a collaborative team, you will focus on delivering value and supporting corporate client borrowing needs.

Job responsibilities

• Analyze middle market credit investments in collaboration with senior analysts.
• Perform credit analysis of portfolio loan investments, identifying business risks and mitigants.
• Develop draft mark recommendations for new loans by analyzing the underlying business, credit structure, loan spread, and relevant information.
• Conduct financial analysis, modeling, credit underwriting, and documentation.
• Monitor the portfolio through ongoing review of sector trends and quarterly financials.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Business, Engineering, Accounting, or a related quantitative field.
• Strong English verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency with GAAP accounting, financial reporting analysis, and financial modeling/Excel.
• Strong MS Office skills.
• Entrepreneurial work ethic—self-starter, intellectually curious, and eager to learn.
• Superior time management and multi-tasking skills to juggle live transactions and daily tasks while maintaining focus on client needs.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced team environment.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in a credit role (Credit/Market Risk, Credit Portfolio Management, etc.) or analyzing equity/credit investments.
• Experience in Banking, Capital Markets, or Investment Management.
• Master’s degree in finance or CFA.
• Coding/automation skills.

This role encompasses the performance of UK regulated activity. The successful candidate will therefore be subject to meeting UK regulatory requirements in the assessment of fitness, propriety, knowledge and competence (as assessed by the Firm) and (where appropriate) approval by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and/or the Prudential Regulation Authority to carry out such activities.

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.