CLO Data Journalist

We're looking for an ambitious, relationship-driven data journalist to maintain our best in market coverage of the $1 trillion+ CLO market, based in New York.

This is a front-line analytical role in one of the most sophisticated and fast-moving areas of credit.

You'll be embedded in the market, speaking daily with the CLO market and producing analysis heavy content backed by data. Success in this role depends on your ability to work with large datasets, maintain strong relationships, and turn insight into analytical and trend coverage.

You should be energised by meeting people, comfortable engaging senior market participants, and motivated by working with data.

Just as importantly, you're collaborative, generous with colleagues, and someone who contributes positively to a team environment.

The role is New York-based and includes opportunities to travel for industry conferences.

- Identifying trends - You'll regularly find trends by speaking to the market and backing those findings with data

- Feature writing - You'll identify emerging trends in issuance, pricing, structuring, and investor activity with monthly long form data trend pieces

- Monitoring markets - You'll expand your knowledge and connect the dots with the wider debt market to collaborate with colleagues across verticals in distressed debt, leveraged finance, and private credit.

- Maintaining databases - You'll work closely with the CLO data team to source private information from the market and contribute in expansions to new datasets.

- Generate ideas and deliver clear, concise reporting under deadline pressure

- Have 2+ years of experience in financial journalism. Experience with structured credit or debt capital markets is a strong positive but not essential.

- Personable - A natural ability to connect with a wide range of sophisticated market participants. Confident in engaging senior investors, bankers, and asset managers

- Driven - Endlessly curious, self-motivated, and passionate about doing a good job

- Organized - Able to maintain a deep network of sources, stay on top of story pipeline, and deadlines

- Communicative - Clear and concise in your written and verbal language, and able to explain complex ideas in simple terms

- Analytical - Comfortable handling large datasets to help draw conclusions, and have a proficiency in excel and PowerBI

- Competitive Salary: $100,000 - $140,000 (our salary bands are benchmarked at 75-90th percentile of market)