Octus Fundamentals delivers comprehensive financial data for informed credit decisions, covering reported and standardised financials, KPIs, tear sheets, and complex capital structures for more than 3,000 corporates globally across both publicly listed and privately held companies. Our dataset encompasses corporates across the sub-investment-grade liquid credit and private credit universe. 

We are looking for a Data & Analytics Analyst to join our Fundamentals EMEA team. The successful candidate will play a central role in building and maintaining market-wide datasets that enable our subscribers – professionals across hedge funds, investment banks, and management consulting firms – to benchmark issuers across sectors, regions, instrument types, and company sizes. The role sits at the intersection of financial analysis, data engineering, and product development.

This is a hands-on, high-impact position offering direct exposure to how leading credit market participants use data in their workflows, with meaningful opportunities to shape how our products evolve.

Responsibilities:

Fundamentals Data Analytics

• Own and regularly update the Market Data file, maintaining accuracy and completeness of aggregated metrics across Octus's non-investment-grade liquid credit coverage universe
• Launch a similar Market Data file for the private credit universe 
• Respond to ad-hoc client data requests, running custom analyses and extracts to meet specific benchmarking or screening needs. This entails producing anonymised benchmarking analyses across sectors, regions, instrument types (bonds, loans) and company sizes. 

Data Quality & Mapping 

• Develop and enhance the financial data quality control framework, with the goal of minimising data errors and providing feedback and training to financial analysts on best practices.
• Collaborate with the Fundamentals financials and capital structure analyst teams to resolve data discrepancies and maintain dataset integrity
• Support internal and external mapping exercises, ensuring consistency between company identifiers, instrument references, and data sources across systems

Automation & AI

• Identify, design, and implement automation solutions to streamline repetitive data operations and reporting workflows across the Fundamentals department
• Leverage AI tools and large language models to enhance data extraction, classification, and analysis pipelines
• Build and maintain dashboards and query templates to support the broader analyst team with scalable, self-serve data access

Cross-functional Support & Product Development

• Assist the Fundamentals analyst teams with ad-hoc internal data requests, query setup, and analytical tasks
• Develop a deep understanding of how Octus clients use the platform and contribute ideas for improving data products and user experience

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience in a data analytics, financial data, or credit research role
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Data Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
• Knowledge of financial reporting and accounting standards, and the ability to interpret financial statements and assess financial performance
• Familiarity with credit instruments and credit market dynamics; understanding of investment banking and credit analysis workflows is a strong advantage
• Advanced Excel skills including complex formulas, pivot tables, macros, Power Query, and large-dataset manipulation
• Proficiency in Python and/or SQL for data manipulation, automation scripting, and workflow optimisation
• Experience with Microsoft automation and visualisation tools: Power Automate, Power BI, or equivalent platforms
• Working knowledge of AI tools and large language models (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) for data extraction, document analysis, or process automation; experience building AI-assisted workflows is a plus

We are looking for a High Yield Credit Analyst to deliver European leveraged finance analysis from debt origination and primary to restructuring. The analyst will be a member of a team of 9 covering both performing and distressed credits and be responsible for publishing credit research reports with actionable investment ideas, focusing on fundamental credit analysis, relative value analysis, and valuation. 

The role requires to closely monitor financial markets and specifically leveraged finance as we are an incumbent provider of data and analysis in this segment. It also requires collaboration with our reporters, lawyers and other groups in generating cross-disciplinary research and analysis for our subscribers, which include top institutional asset managers, hedge funds, investment banks, trading desks, and financial and legal advisors. The role involves a degree of client interaction. 

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze a portfolio of European high-yield, stressed and distressed credits - eventually taking ownership of sectors, topical names
• Conduct in-depth fundamental credit analysis, relative value assessments, and develop forward-looking valuation models to generate actionable investment ideas.
• Track market trends and have conversation among team members and other editorial groups to help guide coverage
• Work closely with Octus’ legal analysts and reporters to deliver value-added insights on topical credit situations.
• Respond promptly to subscriber requests, which may envisage updating capital structures, participating in calls to offer informed perspectives on credits under your coverage.
• Maintain active communication with clients and industry contacts to source new ideas
• Support the Editorial group on ad hoc requests and respond to market-moving news to ensure timely and comprehensive coverage

Requirements

• Minimum 2+ years in credit research (buy-side or sell-side), investment banking, advisory, or rating agency experience
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline
• Proficient in building capital structures, financial modeling, and cash flow projections.
• Strong understanding of business operations, key risks, revenue drivers, credit metrics, and macroeconomic factors
• Ability to interpret financial statements and assess business performance
• Demonstrated capacity to manage multiple priorities and adapt quickly
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Octus - Summer 2026 Editorial Intern (EMEA Staff Writer) 

We are seeking a summer intern to work alongside our team of editorial staff writers responsible for publishing breaking news stories on press releases, company announcements, and other public documents across Europe. Ideal for students exploring a career in finance or financial journalism, this role offers hands-on experience in a fast-paced newsroom and the opportunity to collaborate with our expert editors, journalists, analysts, and lawyers. 

What We Offer 

• An eight- to ten-week paid internship program. 
• Mentorship and shadowing opportunities with senior staff writers and other editorial staff. 
• Chance to build contacts with professionals across law, finance, and journalism at a leading global provider. 
• Opportunity to gain valuable exposure in the high yield, leveraged finance, distressed debt and restructuring l markets. 

Responsibilities 

• Write and publish news stories based on company announcements and third-party content across EMEA (with occasional US and APAC coverage as needed). 
• Produce timely market coverage and maintain daily news digests and trackers.
• Train in Octus’ editorial workflows, prioritizing our core goals of speed and accuracy. 
• Be part of our ongoing AI initiatives which is changing the way in which we work.
• As needed, track press releases, SEC filings, and other public sources for market-moving developments. 

Requirements 

• An interest in business writing and financial markets. 
• Excellent written and spoken English skills. 
• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, with a focus in journalism, business, finance, or a related field preferred. 
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines. 
• A self-starter mentality with a strong desire to learn. 
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment while maintaining close attention to detail. 
• Hybrid working with a minimum of three days per week in the office Tuesday - Thursday.

Octus Fundamentals delivers comprehensive financial data for informed credit decisions, covering reported and standardised financials, KPIs, tear sheets, and complex capital structures for more than 3,000 corporates globally across both publicly listed and privately held companies. Our dataset encompasses corporates across the sub-investment-grade liquid credit and private credit universe. 

We are looking for a Data & Analytics Analyst to join our Fundamentals EMEA team. The successful candidate will play a central role in building and maintaining market-wide datasets that enable our subscribers – professionals across hedge funds, investment banks, and management consulting firms – to benchmark issuers across sectors, regions, instrument types, and company sizes. The role sits at the intersection of financial analysis, data engineering, and product development.

This is a hands-on, high-impact position offering direct exposure to how leading credit market participants use data in their workflows, with meaningful opportunities to shape how our products evolve.

Responsibilities:

Fundamentals Data Analytics

• Own and regularly update the Market Data file, maintaining accuracy and completeness of aggregated metrics across Octus's non-investment-grade liquid credit coverage universe
• Launch a similar Market Data file for the private credit universe 
• Respond to ad-hoc client data requests, running custom analyses and extracts to meet specific benchmarking or screening needs. This entails producing anonymised benchmarking analyses across sectors, regions, instrument types (bonds, loans) and company sizes. 

Data Quality & Mapping 

• Develop and enhance the financial data quality control framework, with the goal of minimising data errors and providing feedback and training to financial analysts on best practices.
• Collaborate with the Fundamentals financials and capital structure analyst teams to resolve data discrepancies and maintain dataset integrity
• Support internal and external mapping exercises, ensuring consistency between company identifiers, instrument references, and data sources across systems

Automation & AI

• Identify, design, and implement automation solutions to streamline repetitive data operations and reporting workflows across the Fundamentals department
• Leverage AI tools and large language models to enhance data extraction, classification, and analysis pipelines
• Build and maintain dashboards and query templates to support the broader analyst team with scalable, self-serve data access

Cross-functional Support & Product Development

• Assist the Fundamentals analyst teams with ad-hoc internal data requests, query setup, and analytical tasks
• Develop a deep understanding of how Octus clients use the platform and contribute ideas for improving data products and user experience

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience in a data analytics, financial data, or credit research role
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Data Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
• Knowledge of financial reporting and accounting standards, and the ability to interpret financial statements and assess financial performance
• Familiarity with credit instruments and credit market dynamics; understanding of investment banking and credit analysis workflows is a strong advantage
• Advanced Excel skills including complex formulas, pivot tables, macros, Power Query, and large-dataset manipulation
• Proficiency in Python and/or SQL for data manipulation, automation scripting, and workflow optimisation
• Experience with Microsoft automation and visualisation tools: Power Automate, Power BI, or equivalent platforms
• Working knowledge of AI tools and large language models (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) for data extraction, document analysis, or process automation; experience building AI-assisted workflows is a plus

This is a unique opportunity to join an established team of journalists to cover one of the most topical parts of the European credit market - the emerging private credit secondary market. You will be expected to generate leads on private credit borrowers facing pressure and cover transactions involving the buying and selling of existing private credit fund interests or loan portfolios, as well as GP-led deals. Reporting focuses on private equity-owned businesses financed by private debt. You will be expected to produce thematic pieces joining the dots on the most affected sectors as well as uncovering trends.

Knowledge of and contacts in private credit funds, the advisory community and private equity are preferred. European languages are considered an advantage.

Responsibilities:

• Consistently break news on LP, GP-led transactions, as well as  stressed large and mid-cap private credit names
• Support team members in sourcing deals and enhancing coverage
• Develop and maintain rapport with key industry contacts across private equity, private credit and advisory community  
• Identify and report on new trends and developments in private equity and private credit funds
• Collaborate with financial and legal analysts, and other reporters 

Job Requirements:

• Previous experience in financial journalism with a track record of scoops;
• Passion for breaking news and cultivating relationships; 
• Excellent interpersonal skills to develop and maintain market sources among highly sophisticated deal makers; 
• Ability to write clearly and concisely under deadline pressure; 
• Have an eye for detail and a developed analytical/critical thinking;
• Self motivated with ability to multitask and work in a fast paced newsroom environment;
• Derive trends from staying close to market sources and spotting patterns from covering deals;
• Solid understanding of private equity, debt capital markets, specifically private credit, leveraged loans and high yield bonds;
• The candidate must be collaborative and enjoy working in a multicultural team environment

Octus, a rapidly growing tech-powered financial news and data company and leader in leveraged finance and distressed debt news and analysis, is seeking highly motivated reporters to join us in building out our coverage of the significant risk transfer (SRT) market. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a groundbreaking coverage model while working in an exciting, collaborative environment. An ideal candidate would be highly curious, self motivated and possess outstanding interpersonal skills. They should have prior experience covering debt capital markets. An understanding of significant risk transfer (SRT), structured finance, fundraising, and CLOs is a plus. 

Responsibilities

• Help build out Octus’ coverage of SRT formation, transactions and trends
• Develop and maintain rapport with key SRT asset managers, arrangers and investors
• Identify and report on salient trends and developments in SRTs, as well as touching on CLOs, leveraged finance, and private credit
• Collaborate with financial and legal analysts, and other reporters across multiple sectors

Requirements

• London-based candidates are preferred
• Basic understanding of and experience writing about debt capital markets; structured finance a plus
• A career driven interest in learning about credit, structured and private credit and its intersection with private equity and LP formation.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; self motivated; ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced newsroom environment 
• Write clearly and concisely under deadline pressure and derive trends from issuance, pricing and other market patterns
• Passion for obtaining scoops through outreach and cultivation of sources among highly sophisticated market participants to obtain scoops in the market
• The candidate must be collaborative and enjoy working in a multicultural team environment.

The Data Support Developer is responsible for the day-to-day data support of the Sky Road Product Suite.  They will be responsible for front-line (Tier-1) support of all Sky Road clients and processes during European trading hours, Tier-1 and Tier-2 support of client data questions and issues, and developing scripts and tools to facilitate monitoring, alerting, and reconciliation of client data and processes.  The client support team is the front line of support to all Sky Road clients.  The Data Support Developer will communicate with the development team on support issues that require escalation.  They will also work with the project management team to assist with the onboarding of new clients and to understand new client workflows to facilitate support.  The Data Support Developer will also assist with the QA testing process of data workflows during client onboarding and releases.

The Sky Road technology team consists of front-end developers, server-side developers, and data developers. The technology teams closely collaborate with each other, the client services team, and senior management to deliver the latest features into the Sky Road products. This role will ensure the client’s experience is a success.

Key Responsibilities

• Tier-1 support for Sky Road clients during European Trading hours.
• Tier-1 and Tier-2 support for Sky Road client data issues and inquiries.
• Develop scripts and tools to monitor, alert, and reconcile client data and processes.
• Monitor and troubleshoot inbound and outbound data flows.
• Monitor scheduling software, error queues and email for potential support issues.
• Communicate and escalate with the development team on support issues.
• Coordinate with project managers on client onboarding.

Required Qualifications

• Python 3.x experience, at least 2 years.
• Experience with Python packages: Pandas, Numpy, botos, and sqlalchemy.
• Experience with Relational/NoSQL Databases.
• Experience working in a support capacity.
• Strong Excell skills. Must possess the ability to join, pivot and summarize data.
• Ability to troubleshoot support issues.
• Attention to details.
• Experience working in a team environment.

Desired Qualifications

• Understanding of Order Management, Portfolio Management, Compliance and Security Master systems.
• Understanding of core financial data domains including issuers, instruments, industries, ratings, and pricing of financial products.
• Experience with scheduling software.
• Experience with software product support.
• Experience with server-side API frameworks such as REST.

At Octus, Account Managers are responsible for managing and growing relationships with a book of accounts (banks, law firms, or buyside firms) through subscription renewals and expansion, uplifts and cross-selling of additional Octus products. This role would be ideal for an accomplished account management professional who is looking to join a growing and innovating fintech company. Knowledge of the credit markets is preferred though not required.

We are currently looking for candidates who have experience managing relationships with and selling to the buyside, banks, or both.

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of the renewal cycle for Octus’ subscription relationships covering a book of either banking or buyside accounts
• Manage key client interactions with a focus on expansion opportunities within accounts and subscription renewals targeting 115%+ net retention
• Build a strong knowledge of your client base in order to identify and close cross sell opportunities, which is fundamental to achieving your quota
• Collaborate with customer success to deliver excellent client service and customer experience
• Coordinate with Octus’ product team to identify opportunities for product and platform enhancements
• Track and analyze KPIs and product usage on accounts to determine appropriate relationship management strategy

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of progressive experience in an account management role selling to buyside firms or banks, preferably with experience working in credit. 
• Ability to manage complex institutions involving multiple teams and stakeholders. 
• Proven ability to develop a deep knowledge of a complex suite of products (such as datasets, API feeds and research). Proven success in hitting quota and executing on cross-sell opportunities. 
• Organized, detail-oriented with the ability to prioritize and respond quickly; ability to keep on top of all requirements with multiple ongoing workstreams
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication
• Experience with Salesforce required
• Ability to work in a hybrid schedule (3 days in office per week)