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Distressed Debt Reporter
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New York, NY, USA
Hybrid
80K-90K Annually
Mid level
Fintech • News + Entertainment • Software • Database • Financial Services
Where Credit Becomes Clear
The Role
The Distressed Debt Reporter will break news on distressed debt borrowers, collaborate with a team, and provide analysis on market trends and corporate restructuring.
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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.
For more information, visit: https://octus.com/
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
We are hiring a Distressed Debt Reporter to join our team of experienced, successful and highly motivated individuals in New York. This reporter will be responsible for breaking news on corporate restructurings and will collaborate with a team of journalists as well as financial and legal analysts.
The reporter will primarily cover corporate credit, focus on leveraging market sources to identify companies with near-term restructuring triggers and those experiencing dislocation in the credit markets, while providing Octus subscribers with value-add intelligence on stressed and distressed situations, in-and out-of-court restructurings and post-reorg situations. Experience covering companies and credits associated with artificial intelligence, software and data centers is a plus.
This position is in our New York office and is in-person at least three days a week.
Responsibilities
Break news on stressed and distressed debt borrowers across America
Work closely with a team of journalists, financial analysts and legal analysts
Develop and maintain contacts in the credit market as well as with financial advisors, investment bankers,restructuring lawyers, traders and opportunistic investors
Identify market trends and write timely insightful pieces for a sophisticated readership
Attend relevant conferences and events
Requirements
Motivated self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment
Curiosity about corporate finance, bankruptcy law, and the professionals that drive the processes
Strong communication skills to collaborate internally and build upon an already expansive source book
Strong writing skills and attention to detail
Familiarity with corporate financial statements a plus
At Octus, we consider a range of factors in connection with compensation decisions, including experience, skills, location, and our business needs and limitations. As a result, compensation may vary within and across similar roles and positions. Please note that the salary range information below is a good faith estimate for this position and actual compensation for any individual may fall outside this range if warranted by the circumstances applicable to that individual. If we identify a role that would be suitable for a broader range of skills and experience such that we would consider hiring at multiple levels then the range listed below may reflect that breadth.
The salary range estimate for this position is $80,000 - $90,000.
The actual compensation will be at Octus's sole discretion and will be determined by the aforementioned and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.
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.
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Skills Required
Demonstrated experience covering credit markets and bankruptcy
Strong writing skills, attention to detail, and familiarity with corporate financial statements
Strong communication skills to collaborate internally and build an expansive source book
Curiosity about corporate finance and bankruptcy law
Motivated self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment
Octus Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Octus lists medical, dental, and vision insurance as core coverage, complemented by FSAs and wellness perks such as gym subsidies and fitness programs. Feedback suggests multiple plan options and supportive add‑ons that strengthen overall health coverage.
Parental & Family Support
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Paid parental leave is highlighted, including up to 10 weeks for primary caregivers and 2 weeks for secondary caregivers, alongside family medical leave and an onsite Mother’s Room. These provisions indicate meaningful support for caregiving needs.
Retirement Support
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A 401(k) with company matching is offered, with public materials citing a 50% match up to a $3,500 annual cap. This, paired with mentions of pension in some listings, supports longer‑term financial security.
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
808 Employees
Year Founded: 2013
What We Do
Octus, was founded in 2013 with a simple conviction: credit decisions deserve clarity, not chaos. Markets were fragmented. Intelligence was gated. Data lived in silos. Professionals were forced to stitch together incomplete pictures while the clock kept running. We built Octus to change that.
Octus is the essential credit platform that tracks the entire credit lifecycle. From origination and underwriting to secondary trading, refinancing, distress and restructuring, we follow every development across leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, private credit and special situations. We structure millions of documents, surface risks, benchmark performance and deliver expert reporting and analysis in real time.
What began as a newsroom fused with legal and financial expertise has evolved into a unified ecosystem. Octus brings together proprietary data, expert-driven intelligence and integrated workflow tools so credit professionals can analyze situations, uncover opportunities, manage portfolios, execute trades and stay compliant without ever leaving the platform. Insight and action finally live in one place.
Today, nearly 40,000 professionals across the world’s leading banks, asset managers, CLO managers, law firms and advisors rely on Octus to move smarter and faster. They turn to us for breadth, depth and rigor forged over more than a decade, and for the speed, integration and precision that define the future of credit workflow.
Our mission is direct and ambitious: end fragmentation, collapse the distance between intelligence and execution, and transform insight into impact. Because in credit, clarity isn’t just an advantage. It’s everything.
Octus: Where credit becomes clear.
Why Work With Us
Octus is where real experts work together to cut through chaos and build clarity in credit. You feel your impact here. What you create shapes real decisions in the market. The problems matter. The people are sharp. If you want work that counts, this is the place.
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