Sr Investment Analyst

Founded in 1898 and headquartered in Chicago, IL, GATX Corporation (NYSE: GATX) is an industry leader with 125+ years of success—success that is powered by our people. We are proud of our high-performance culture, hard-working and enthusiastic management team, and beautiful office space in the Willis Tower.

At GATX, we hire the best and offer our employees a dynamic, energetic, collaborative environment to enable them to make an impact from day one. Enjoy the perks and benefits of a global company with the close-knit culture and community of a much smaller one. In the same way we strive to empower our customers to propel the world forward, we are dedicated to providing our people with the tools and resources they need to advance in their careers.

The Investment Analysis group performs economic analyses to inform GATX’s investment and divestment decisions globally and provides quantitative and analytical support to other functional areas such as Structured Finance, Financial Planning & Analysis, Accounting, etc. The Senior Investment Analyst (“SIA”) provides transaction-related support involving the quantitative evaluation and reporting on specific commercial, operational, financial, and/or strategic business opportunities.

• Perform transaction-specific discounted cash flow analysis (DCF) including researching, identifying known and unknown variables, calculating and evaluating investment returns, analyzing various scenarios and sensitivities
• Cleary summarize and communicate results to high-level stakeholders
• Develop and/or maintain various investment decision models using advanced MS Excel and Visual Basic programming for automation and quality
• Use available data sets and analysis tools, both public and proprietary, to research, gather, organize, and visualize information and gain insights to support assumptions made in various investment decision models
• Provide analytical support to portfolio and fleet management, developing/maintaining various models, operations, et al

• 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 five years of relevant experience, preferably in investment analysis, capital investment, lease pricing, business valuation, data mining, or similar activities with an emphasis on discounted cash flow modeling
• Proven understanding of financial concepts, capital market theory, relevant tax, economic, 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 

This is a hybrid position that will require the employee to work in the office at least 3 days a week throughout the year.