Leveraged Finance Cover Letter

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the leveraged finance position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for leadership, drive and support to the wider Large Cap Sponsor Leveraged Finance team.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Relevant internships, Leveraged Finance or Corporate Finance with a leading bank, an advisory franchise or transaction services team
• Excellent organizational and time management skills to deal with multiple and sometimes conflicting demands and time constraints while maintaining attention to detail
• Experience in a total return environment
• Proven experience in leveraged finance origination in an investment banking platform
• Experience processing expenses and booking travel
• Comfortable supporting multiple people with competing needs
• Superior analytical aptitude
• Detail orientated and numerate

Please consider me for the leveraged finance opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

In my previous role, I was responsible for support to the analytical team by creating & updating leveraged loan and high yield bond profiles in LCD’s proprietary database based upon bank books and prospectuses gathered from the market.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Strong understanding of portfolio construction, risk measurement/management, and performance attribution techniques
• Strong understanding of financial accounting and economic theory, good judgment and reasoning in order to assess and differentiate the strengths, weaknesses and value drivers of investments
• Experience mentoring top talent
• Familiarity with optimization tools and financial software (ex
• Strong written and verbal communications skills with a demonstrable capacity to articulate investment insights
• Self-motivated, resourceful, hard-working, diligent with a positive attitude
• To hit the ground running, important to have prior experience of having overseen and assumed primary responsibility for debt financing transactions
• Previous experience and touchpoints around term loan A product in Asia and institutional loan and bond markets in Europe and US would be advantageous

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the leveraged finance position.

Previously, I was responsible for analysis and support to MD/Director(s)/VP(s) NCG Leveraged Finance for responsibilities to manage / monitor the NCG loan portfolio, including timely reporting of material shifts in risk, client needs, market pricing, and structure and support for recommendations for action / new marketing opportunities where appropriate.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Strong knowledge of accounting and financial statement analysis
• Familiarity with credit agreements and other loan documentation
• Completion of courses on basic financial analysis and credit skills, credit risk measurement
• Experience leading underwriting and execution of Senior Loans in Leveraged Finance transactions
• Demonstrates superior practical and conceptual knowledge of credit and risk analysis
• Knowledge of cash flow finance in the middle market arena and of loan documentation negotiations
• Possesses extremely strong relationship building skills to interface with internal and external constituents and works well as a team player
• Exhibits strong negotiation skills, develop loan structuring options, engage with Capital Markets on multi-bank transactions

In response to your job posting for leveraged finance, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In my previous role, I was responsible for senior CRM officers with credit recommendations on loan transactions with focus on leveraged lending.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Analytical experience, with strong credit skills a pre-requisite
• Exposure to the European leveraged credit markets, preferably in an analytical role
• Extremely strong numeracy skills and experience with financial models, forecasting and sensitivity analysis
• Familiarity with legal documentation and structures is beneficial but not crucial
• Exposure to the European leveraged credit markets in an analytical role
• Familiarity with legal documentation and structures is beneficial
• High yield bond & stressed investing experience strongly preferred
• Prior experience managing a portfolio of securities, with a proven track record of producing strong risk-adjusted total returns

I would like to submit my application for the leveraged finance opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In my previous role, I was responsible for support to the analytical team by building & updating leveraged loan and high yield bond profiles in LCD’s proprietary database based upon bank books and prospectuses gathered from the market.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Needs to demonstrate a sense of entrepreneurship and keenness to build and expand a business
• Effective credit risk management (evaluation of risk/exposure management) of credits within the North American Healthcare and Industrial sectors
• Strong product and Healthcare or Industrial industry knowledge
• Formal Credit training from a major institution or rating agency preferred
• Strong presentation skills with senior-level portfolio managers, analysts and heads of research
• Teamwork oriented and collaborative
• Experience with Salesforce or other CRM database
• Strong credit risk analysis skills