The Role:

Bloomberg News is seeking a Loan Markets Reporter for our First Word Credit service, based in New York. The reporter will be responsible for breaking stories about new deals in the investment-grade and high-yield loan markets as well as creating chart-based items and compiling calendars and market wraps.

You should have at least 2 years experience of credit market reporting and writing experience, with focus on loans and understand deal flow, structure and pricing and enjoy using data to present trends and developments. Experience in reporting and breaking news for a real-time news service is also required.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree of equivalent experience required
• Previous journalism experience is desirable
• Experience covering loans markets
• Ability to write quickly and concisely under deadline pressure
• Knowledge of Excel

The Company:

Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 315,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Bloomberg BNA, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through the Bloomberg Professional service, television, radio, mobile, the Internet and three magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets and Bloomberg Pursuits, covers the world with more than 2,400 news and multimedia professionals at more than 150 bureaus in 73 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 15,000 people in 192 locations around the world.