Financial Credit Analyst

Summary

Cognitive Credit is a financial technology company providing specialist credit data to investment banks, asset managers, and hedge funds. The Financial Credit Analyst will help build the US credit data set by processing and analyzing financial reports, ensuring data accuracy, supporting clients, and collaborating with engineering teams to improve data tools and applications.

Responsibilities

• Growing our data by processing financial reports using the Company’s proprietary data extraction system, assembled using cutting-edge machine learning technology
• Analyzing resulting output for accuracy and completeness using internally developed audit tools and techniques
• Monitoring / “owning” your coverage universe to support live data updates during corporate earnings season
• Interacting with our clients, the world’s leading investment firms, to answer questions about data and product functionality; supporting sales and account management teams
• Discussing product priorities and strategic objectives with a management team that has many decades of buy-side and sell-side experience working in intuitional credit markets
• Collaborating with the engineering team to review system performance and identifying opportunities for improvement, including both internal analyst tools and our client-facing application

Skills

• • you have an accounting background and/or are a skilled accountant from a Big 4 accounting firm/ financial data analyst looking to develop new skills, both financial and technological, while expanding your professional horizons
• • you are highly analytical, detail-oriented, motivated by data integrity challenges, and can work independently
• • you believe that there ‘must be a better way' with respect to automating the repetitive tasks in your current job
• • you are interested in working in an environment with fast growth potential that prioritizes innovation
• • you take ownership to drive solutions and are a self-starter
• • Financial statement audit/analysis capabilities; familiarity with creating financial models/reports from scratch
• • Strong academic track record, with a background in accounting and/or finance
• • US GAAP experience is essential; IFRS experience is useful
• • Ability to demonstrate superior work performance, attention to detail, and a commitment to outstanding results
• • Good Excel knowledge plus experience with data management
• • Passion for technology and learning new tools
• • Fluent in English and eligible to work in the US
• • Accounting and/or finance qualifications such as CPA or CFA preferred from a Big 4 accounting firm

Qualifications

Must Haves

• • you have an accounting background and/or are a skilled accountant from a Big 4 accounting firm/ financial data analyst looking to develop new skills, both financial and technological, while expanding your professional horizons
• • you are highly analytical, detail-oriented, motivated by data integrity challenges, and can work independently
• • you believe that there ‘must be a better way' with respect to automating the repetitive tasks in your current job
• • you are interested in working in an environment with fast growth potential that prioritizes innovation
• • you take ownership to drive solutions and are a self-starter
• • Financial statement audit/analysis capabilities; familiarity with creating financial models/reports from scratch
• • Strong academic track record, with a background in accounting and/or finance
• • US GAAP experience is essential; IFRS experience is useful
• • Ability to demonstrate superior work performance, attention to detail, and a commitment to outstanding results
• • Good Excel knowledge plus experience with data management
• • Passion for technology and learning new tools
• • Fluent in English and eligible to work in the US

Nice to Haves

• • Accounting and/or finance qualifications such as CPA or CFA preferred from a Big 4 accounting firm

Benefits

• 20 days PTO
• Healthcare
• 401k
• A high degree of remote working flexibility