Job Description

Octus

Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. Since 2013, tens of thousands of professionals across hedge fund, investment banking, management consulting, and law firm verticals have come to rely on Octus to make better, faster, and more confident decisions in pace with the fast-moving credit markets.
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Working at Octus

Octus hires growth-minded innovators and trailblazers across the globe to drive our business and culture. 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, Octus employees enjoy competitive health benefits, matched 401k and pension plans, PTO, generous parental leave, gym subsidies, educational reimbursements for career development, recognition programs, pet-friendly offices (US only), and much more.

Role

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

Equal Employment Opportunity

Octus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse work environment where all individuals are valued, respected, and treated fairly. We believe that diversity enriches our workplace and enhances our ability to innovate and succeed.