Assistant Vice President, Credit Ratings

3 weeks ago


Toronto, Canada DBRS Full time

About the role:
The position is in the commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) group in Toronto. The CMBS group is responsible for rating and monitoring bonds secured by commercial real estate loans.

Job responsibilities:

- Obtain a solid understanding of DBRS Morningstar’s methodologies, models, criteria and other analytical tools to assess the credit worthiness of the various transaction types within DBRS Morningstar’s rated CMBS book, including Multi-Borrower, Single-Borrower/Single Asset and CRE CLO transactions.
- Conduct surveillance reviews of DBRS Morningstar-rated CMBS transactions. This work will involve analyzing property-level documents (operating statements, rent rolls and property inspections) for the underlying collateral and collateral and bond-level reporting provided by the transaction parties. Also responsible for preparing a committee package and press release draft, and presenting analysis to credit committee.
- Perform market research and financial analysis to help develop published research and/or materials for investor meetings and conferences.
- Respond to client and colleague inquiries regarding methodologies, transaction analysis and research.
- Some travel (less than 10%) may be required.
- Work with team leaders to help train and mentor junior analysts - review their analyses, committee presentations and loan level commentary, providing guidance as necessary.

About Us

DBRS Morningstar is a global credit ratings business, currently with 700 employees in eight offices globally. Formed through the July 2019 acquisition of DBRS by Morningstar, Inc., the ratings business is the fourth-largest provider of credit ratings in the world.

DBRS Morningstar is committed to empowering investor success, serving the market through leading-edge technology and raising the bar for the industry. DBRS Morningstar is a market leader in Canada, the U.S. and Europe in multiple asset classes.

DBRS Morningstar rates more than 2,600 issuers and 54,000 securities worldwide and is driven to bringing more clarity, diversity of opinion, and responsiveness to the ratings process. DBRS Morningstar’s approach and size provide the agility to respond to customers’ needs, while being large enough to provide the necessary expertise and resources.
- If you received and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker._

Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. While some positions are available as fully remote, we’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, typically three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you’ll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.



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