Research Associate

Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia

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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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, and much more. 

Role

The Research Associate will work within and support Octus’ Global Covenants team, focusing on US leverage finance and high yield markets under the guidance of senior lawyers. The role is ideal for a qualified lawyer with experience working in the leveraged finance, capital markets, and restructuring, and with a genuine interest in applying AI to legal research and analysis. This will be a hybrid role based in Bogotá for an enthusiastic person who has a desire to learn and thrives in a growing, dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a first point of support for senior lawyers in Global Covenants on day-to-day research, drafting, and analysis needs
  • Establish deep working knowledge of all aspects of Octus’ Global Covenants offering, including people, process, and technology
  • Research, draft, and assist with the creation of legal intelligence on leveraged loans, private credit, high yield bonds, liability management exercises, event driven analyses and other topics
  • Independently update existing covenant analyses as debt instruments evolve 
  • Respond to simple subscriber inquiries and escalate complex queries to senior lawyers 
  • Conduct data extraction and trend analysis using Octus’ proprietary databases, AI, Microsoft Office, and Google Workspace 
  • Proactively support sales and marketing efforts for the Global Covenants team, including helping to organize webinars, events, and training 
  • Lead or assist with various administrative and operational projects, as needed
  • Utilize AI tools to build bespoke workflows that enhance day-to-day legal research capabilities 

Requirements

  • Qualifications include either: (a) a law degree from a licensed Colombian university or (b) an LL.M or J.D. from an American university, with a minimum of four years’ post qualification experience, ideally at an international law firm or financial institution  
  • Strong fluency in English language (with working knowledge of business/legal terminology) - this role operates primarily in English, across international teams.
    • As this role operates in English day-to-day, please submit your CV in English
  • Strong writing and analytical skills
  • Intermediate Excel and PowerPoint skills, with the ability to distill and communicate complex, information-dense content in an easily digestible and visually appealing way
  • Intermediate fluency with AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, for example) and seasoned ability to critically evaluate AI-generated output for quality and accuracy; high fluency is a strong plus
  • Demonstrable interest in finance, capital markets, and related legal industries
  • Outstanding organizational and time management skills, with excellent attention to detail 
  • Proactive and collaborative team player, with eagerness to learn and work with multiple stakeholders
  • Ability to multi-task and prioritize effectively among multiple tasks, comfortable managing multiple deadline-driven matters at once
  • Prior experience in leveraged finance, high yield, capital markets, restructuring, credit intelligence or credit research environment is a strong plus

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