Guggenheim Partners

Analyst

• Lead evaluation of specialized and complex investments utilizing all available sources of information including governing documents, published research, financial reports, news, rating agency reports, and market information
• Generate credit views, trade ideas and research summaries
• Calculate total return, option-adjusted spread, and scenario analysis using standard analytical tools
• Present trade ideas and credit views to sector team members and portfolio managers
• Maintain and originate client presentation materials related to key market development and investment views
• Maintain and develop cashflow and financial models for specialized and complex investments
• Supervise and quality control cashflow / financial models for less-complex, on-the-run investments
• Develop and maintain internal catalogs of deal comps, credit views, and credit statistics to support monitoring, surveillance, and relative risk and value analysis
• Research developments related to specialized and more complex investments
• Participate in meetings with dealers and industry experts for industry background and deal research
• Direct and perform quality control of the monthly and quarterly surveillance processes
• Ensure completeness of investment analysis and documentation in conformance with firm standards
• Conduct reviews of prospective portfolio acquisitions
• Conduct and oversee ad hoc analysis to support PM, management, client, and desk-directed inquiries

Structured Credit Analyst – Senior Associate

Inside Sales

• Initiate sales calls to identify new sales opportunities
• Provide financial intermediaries with sales ideas and product information
• Respond to incoming calls/questions from financial intermediaries
• Partner with external wholesalers to provide scheduling and sales support
• Assist financial intermediary in analyzing client portfolios
• Maintain activity and profile data in the CRM
• Keep current on compliance and regulatory policies

Regional Sales Associate – Internal Sales

Vice President

• Develop and manage the team of individuals responsible for ensuring that all cash and positions are reconciled accurately, efficiently and on a timely basis
• Manage a team responsible for tracking non-standard portfolio investments, including bank loans
• Define, implement and monitor formal processes that ensure reconciliation processes meet standards established by internal and external auditors including SSAE 16 procedures
• Actively involved with performing reconciliations and monitoring and resolving exceptions, as needed
• Maintain close interaction with various parties including custodian banks, trustees, administrative agent banks, portfolio managers, traders, and analysts
• Ensure all positions are accurate and reconciled with custodians and other external parties as well as across multiple internal systems including Wall Street Office & BlackRock Aladdin Platforms
• Review and report to management manual transactions processed by Loan Recon in the BlackRock environment
• Monitor SOC1 compliance and control as it relates cash reconciliation team
• Primary point of contact for all cash and liquidity related questions on Private Funds, CLOs and Bank Loan SMAs, while working together with Portfolio Services Reconciliation Team for Liquidity Reporting
• Coordinate, reconcile and compile all non-USD positions and cash for FX Transactions
• FX Spot and FX Forward Hedging
• Cash Repatriation for trade settlement and Principal and Interest receivables
• Provide Bank Loan Accrued Income and PNI Reporting for Month-end Reporting processes to Portfolios Services Team (Reconciliation and Performance)
• Coordinate and conduct parallel analyses with fund administrators for Monthly and Weekly NAV Analysis tie-out on six bank loan SMAs and eight private funds
• Review WSO composite constituents and ensure that all appropriate portfolios are included in the relevant composites
• Oversee and manage the WSO to BRS interface by performing various quality control checks
• Participate in the on-boarding processes and ensure that the team has the necessary infrastructure for a new mandate

Loan Reconciliation – Portfolio Services Vice President

• Lead evaluation of specialized and complex investments utilizing all available sources of information including governing documents, published research, financial reports, news, rating agency reports, and market information
• Analyze new issue and secondary market taxable and tax-exempt municipal credits to create reports, analyses, and recommendations
• Create and maintain analytical models and tools that enhance credit research (e.g. sector-wide credit metric comparable, macro stress testing)
• In-depth work on the legal characteristics of security structure, such as mutability of cash flow waterfalls, enforceability of tax levies, legality of issuance authorization, substitutability of indentures
• Monitor portfolio holdings and municipal sectors for credit changes and material news and events
• Formulate and manage sector investment thesis and strategy and communicate firm-wide, incorporating the firm’s macro views
• Provide the team leader with ongoing information about market sentiment, liquidity, volatility, and other market information about the sector
• Prioritize investment activities considering Portfolio needs, desk resources, and market risk/value.
• Create and maintain desk tools that improve investment process and efficiency (e.g., secondary offerings, trade reports, bi-weekly meeting data, credit review log)
• Create and institutionalize credit research reporting, credit memo templates, and ESG analysis framework
• Author the municipal sector team’s Quarterly Outlook thought leadership piece
• Ensure adherence with firm policies and procedures with respect to investment underwriting, compliance, trading
• Direct surveillance, research, and project activities in conjunction with the Team Leader
• Develop project scope and set priorities for technology and research initiatives
• Assist in the creation and maintenance of marketing materials

Municipal Credit Analyst – Vice President

• Lead sales effort with financial intermediaries in defined territory
• Responsible for building and maintaining relationships with financial intermediaries to generate assets
• Help educate financial advisors on the benefits of Guggenheim products and services for their clients, through individual or group meeting presentations, including conference calls, branch visits, seminars, conferences, or training sessions
• Develop and implement territory business plans to deliver on assigned sales goal
• Maintain activity and profile data in the CRM
• Keep current and adhere to compliance and regulatory policies specific to licensing requirements, continuing education, and firm-mandated training (license requirements FINRA 7, 63)
• Responsible for keeping current on company’s products, initiatives, and marketing campaigns
• Manage expense account and allotted budget and file expense reports in a timely manner
• Work closely with assigned internal wholesaler to deliver sales goals by identifying and fostering leads generated from referrals, digital ad campaigns and cold calls

Structured Credit Analyst – Senior Associate

Regional Sales Associate – Internal Sales

Loan Reconciliation – Portfolio Services Vice President

Municipal Credit Analyst – Vice President

Regional Vice President