# Covenant Analyst

**Company:** [Octus](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/octus)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Legal
**Salary:** $230k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Credit Agreements Analysis, Leveraged Finance, Loan Covenants, Legal Documentation Review, Commercial Acumen, Client Relationship Management, Industry Presentations, Database Utilization, Cross-Functional Collaboration, New York Bar Qualification
**Posted:** 2026-06-16

> Experienced leveraged finance lawyer analyzing credit agreements and loan covenants to deliver actionable insights to capital markets participants. Requires 6+ years in top law firm leveraged loans/private debt practice and New York Bar qualification.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Analyze credit agreements, identifying key loopholes and novel provisions, to provide actionable insights to the primary and secondary capital markets.
- Break-down complex documentation and summarize it clearly and concisely for a diverse audience across the buy-side and the sell-side.
- Answer questions from leveraged finance market participants on loan covenants and their implications in real-world scenarios.
- Engage with market participants and build your profile through seminars, webinars and podcasts.
- Leverage Octus' industry-leading databases to provide our subscribers a competitive edge.
- Collaborate closely with other Octus experts to produce industry leading covenant analysis, generate data-backed trendlines, and develop Octus' products.
- Build and nurture relationships with Octus clients and industry contacts.
- Represent Octus at industry events and conferences, and in dealings with the press.

## Requirements
- 6+ years of experience working in leveraged finance, with a focus on leveraged loans/private debt in a top law firm.
- Exceptional legal technical skills with a passion for diving deep into documentation and the ability to uncover insights that others may miss.
- Strong commercial acumen with a desire to provide clear, pragmatic and actionable legal analysis.
- The ability to multitask and work both independently and as a team player in a fast-paced environment with people from varied professional backgrounds.
- A confident communicator, who writes in a clear and concise manner for the intended audience.
- A proven track record of delivering high quality analysis within deadlines.
- Qualified to practice New York law.

## What We Offer
- A unique opportunity to use your legal skills in an innovative and exciting way.
- A high (partner level) degree of responsibility, autonomy, and the opportunity to shape your role.
- A dynamic environment, working closely with a high caliber team of lawyers, financial analysts, and journalists.
- Opportunity for career growth and development within an agile, ever-evolving global company.
- The opportunity to take initiative, be creative, and develop new content, products, and features that better serve our subscribers.
- Intellectually stimulating work within a collaborative and diverse environment.
- Work life balance and a fully flexible working model in which you decide when you want to work in the office and when you want to work remotely.
- Regular interaction with asset managers, hedge funds, law firms, investment banks, and others in the leveraged finance world.

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