Research Associate - EMEA Covenants

A market leader in credit intelligence, Reorg brings together journalists, financial analysts, legal analysts, technologists, and data scientists to collect and synthesize highly complex information into actionable intelligence. Since 2013, tens of thousands of professionals across hedge funds, investment banks, management consulting, and law firm verticals have come to rely on Reorg to make better, faster, and more confident decisions in pace with the fast-moving credit markets. A proud member of the Permira portfolio since 2022, Reorg’s operations continue to grow rapidly across North America, the UK, EMEA, and APAC. For more information, visit: www.reorg.com

Working at Reorg

Consistent with our growth, Reorg hires innovators and trailblazers across the globe to drive our business and our iron-clad corporate culture alike. Our core values – Action Oriented, Customer First Mindset, Effective Team Players, and Driven to Excel – define an organizational ethos that’s as high-performing as it is human. Among other perks, Reorg employees enjoy competitive health benefits, a generous retirement package, generous parental leave, gym subsidies, educational reimbursements for career development, recognition programs, and much more.

The Role

The Research Associate will work within Reorg’s EMEA Covenants team, based in the London office. The role is ideal for someone who has graduated university and is interested in working within the legal and/or financial services sector. This will be a hybrid role for an enthusiastic person who has a desire to learn and thrives in a growing, dynamic environment.

You will help generate actionable insights and statistics using our European leveraged loan and high yield bond terms databases, all while being guided and backed by the deep expertise and knowledge of our team of legal experts. The EMEA Covenants team works alongside Reorg’s team of market leading financial analysts and reporters, and you will also gain knowledge and exposure to the broader leveraged finance market and industry as part of the process.

• Support the Reorg EMEA Covenants team, composed of experienced legal professionals covering the European leveraged loans and high yield bonds markets
• Establish good working knowledge of Reorg’s deep and varied legal and financial databases, analyzing datasets and generating visual representation of datasets, all with a view to providing valuable and actionable content for use by credit professionals
• Deepen knowledge of leveraged loan and high yield bond covenants
• Utilize available Reorg coverage and databases to generate ideas for the legal team to write on
• Check facts, proof read and edit documents to ensure accuracy
• Proactively support sales and marketing efforts; including helping to organize webinars, events and training, attending where necessary
• Lead or assist with various administrative and data-driven projects, as assigned

Requirements

• Minimum university degree educated or equivalent working experience (ideally 2yrs+ experience)
• Basic / intermediate Excel skills, able to generate visual representations of data
• Able to interpret raw data and generate basic statistics, able to manage large amounts of information
• Interest in the financial / capital markets; law / finance
• Previous experience in high yield, leveraged finance, or capital markets is advantageous
• Outstanding organizational and time management skills, with excellent attention to detail
• Proactive and collaborative team player
• Ability to multi-task and ability to prioritize effectively among multiple tasks

Benefits

• Autonomy to decide when to work from home or in our welcoming collaborative office working space in central London
• Enhanced sick leave for both physical and mental health supported by a top tier private healthcare plan
• 25 days of holiday + bank holidays
• Numerous perks, discounts and rewards
• Opportunities to participate in industry events and conferences to broaden your knowledge and expand your network
• Regular and inclusive social events held in-person and virtually
• Top-notch IT equipment and working from home allowance
• Pension contribution scheme
• Personal learning and development budget to help you up-skill (£1,200/yr)
• A fully stocked supply of fruit and refreshment for the days when you are in the office

Reorg provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Reorg complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.