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Role Description

The Investment Analyst (“IA”) provides transaction-related support involving the quantitative evaluation and reporting on specific commercial, operational, financial, and/or strategic business opportunities.

• Perform quantitative economic analyses of proposed domestic and international investments, including single-investor leases, lease syndications, secondary market portfolios, business acquisitions, and other complex structures.
• Participate in many aspects of the deal structure development and closing process in addition to providing the economic analysis.
• Interact with all levels of the Company including senior and middle management, fleet portfolio managers, deal advocates (VP level and above), and other functional specialists from Accounting, Tax, and Treasury.
• Use proprietary quantitative models developed at GATX or create new models for novel problems.
• Incorporate statistical analysis, probability theory, and simulation techniques into investment analysis models.
• Conduct international and domestic tax and accounting research to ensure transactions are properly modeled.
• Produce high-quality, error-free results with minimal supervision.
• Communicate assumptions, results, issues, and solutions in a clear and concise manner.
• Manage multiple active transactions and prioritize to meet conflicting deadlines.
• Participate in special projects in other areas of the Company as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (engineering, transportation, mathematics, economics, statistics, finance, etc.) is required; an MBA or an equivalent advanced degree is preferred.
• Advanced level MS Excel skills and general level skills of MS Office Suite (Word & PowerPoint).
• Minimum 3 years of experience, preferably in investment analysis, capital investment, lease pricing, business valuation, data mining, or similar activities with an emphasis on discounted cash flow modeling.
• Strong understanding commensurate with experience of financial concepts, capital market theory, relevant tax, and accounting principles.
• Demonstrated aptitude in design, development, testing, and implementation of applications with Visual Basic or equivalent experience with other general-purpose programming languages is strongly preferred.
• Exposure to statistical analysis, probability theory, and simulation techniques.
• Familiarity with data visualization software, database management systems and structured query language, and lease evaluation models is a plus.

Requirements

• Occasional business travel may be required.

Benefits

• This role may be eligible to participate in the Company’s short-term incentive plan, the details of which will be provided to the applicant upon hire.

Posting Duration

This posting will remain open until the role is filled.

Salary Range

As of the post date, the salary range for this position is:

• Min: USD $80,800.00/Yr.
• Max: USD $103,000.00/Yr.

This range is a reasonable estimate and takes into account several factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including, but not limited to, geographic location, skill set, experience, education, training, internal equity, and other business needs.