Senior Analyst, Research, North American Corporate Bonds

iAGAM / Corporate bonds / Investments / CFA / Bloomberg / French & English

Do you want to join one of the leading portfolio management groups in Canada? Our enthusiastic teams invest each day to make iA Global Asset Management one of the most competitive portfolio managers in the market.

The General Fund and Fixed Income Portfolio Management sector is looking for a Senior Analyst, Research, North American Corporate Bonds to join its team.

You will cover North American public companies and will influence their portfolios. You will be responsible for analyzing and monitoring issuers and providing portfolio managers with investment recommendations. This is your opportunity to join a high-performance team and participate in the public corporate bond portfolio investment strategy for general and investment funds totalling nearly 15 billion dollars.

Your duties will include:

• Performing fundamental analysis of public companies in North America and providing investment recommendations to portfolio managers

• Covering industries belonging to different North American benchmark bond indexes (FTSE, BBG)

• Integrating ESG criteria into fundamental analysis and investment decision-making processes

• Sharing your opinion regarding the fundamentals of issuers under your responsibility and ensuring that they are monitored (quarterly results, credit events, etc.)

• Designing and validating financial measures related to companies, analyzing their financial statements, and quantifying the credit risk

• Attending conferences, seminars and other events in North America in order to keep up to date on industry trends

• Meeting and holding discussions with managers from issuing companies and their representatives

• Analyzing market trends and their impacts on the various industries and issuers in the portfolio

• Following the credit spreads of public Corporate Bonds and analyzing various relations with the goal of outperforming Canadian and US market benchmark indexes

• Developing and maintaining contacts with securities brokers, external analysts, credit agencies and other capital market stakeholders

• Working with a multidisciplinary team of professionals from investments, actuarial science, accounting, compliance, and risk monitoring in order to validate the strategies to be implemented

iA Global Asset Management is offering a stimulating career along with opportunities for you to grow and continue to learn. We offer a respectful, energetic, and motivating workplace where teamwork is valued.

Desired profile:

Core competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or a related field

• Advanced understanding of fundamental analysis

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Excellent communication skills and the desire to collaborate with colleagues, other teams and vendors to establish relationships and resolve problems efficiently and quickly

• Excellent command of oral and written French and English

• Proficiency in Office Suite

Preferred competencies:

• 5 or more years of experience in a similar position or sector

• Holder of CFA Charter (or in progress)

• Master’s degree in a field associated with finance is an asset

• Knowledge of the Bloomberg environment and advanced Excel functions