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Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics serving hedge funds, investment banks, management consultants, and law firms since 2013. This role offers a unique opportunity to join an established journalism team covering the emerging European private credit secondary market.
You will generate leads on private credit borrowers under pressure and cover transactions involving the buying and selling of existing private credit fund interests, loan portfolios, and GP-led deals. Your reporting will focus on private equity-owned businesses financed by private debt. You are expected to produce thematic pieces that connect dots across affected sectors and uncover emerging trends in the market.
Key responsibilities include:
- Consistently break news on LP and GP-led transactions, as well as stressed large and mid-cap private credit names
- Support team members in sourcing deals and enhancing coverage
- Develop and maintain rapport with key industry contacts across private equity, private credit, and the advisory community
- Identify and report on new trends and developments in private equity and private credit funds
- Collaborate with financial and legal analysts and other reporters
The role demands strong financial journalism credentials with a proven track record of scoops and breaking news. You will cultivate relationships with highly sophisticated deal makers and maintain a network of market sources. You must write clearly and concisely under deadline pressure, with strong attention to detail and analytical thinking. A solid understanding of private equity, debt capital markets, private credit, leveraged loans, and high yield bonds is essential. Knowledge of and contacts in private credit funds, the advisory community, and private equity are preferred. European language skills are considered an advantage.
Octus offers competitive health benefits, matched 401k and pension plans, PTO, generous parental leave, gym subsidies, and educational reimbursements for career development.
Requirements:
- Previous experience in financial journalism with a track record of scoops
- Passion for breaking news and cultivating relationships
- Excellent interpersonal skills to develop and maintain market sources among sophisticated deal makers
- Ability to write clearly and concisely under deadline pressure
- Strong attention to detail and developed analytical/critical thinking
- Self-motivated with ability to multitask in a fast-paced newsroom environment
- Ability to derive trends from staying close to market sources and spotting patterns from covering deals
- Solid understanding of private equity, debt capital markets, private credit, leveraged loans, and high yield bonds
- Collaborative mindset and comfort working in a multicultural team environment
- European language skills (preferred)
- Contacts in private credit funds, advisory community, and private equity (preferred)
