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Title: Senior Analyst – Structured Finance, Americas Public Finance, Corporates, Financial Services, & Infrastructure - S&P Global Ratings

Role/Impact: The Senior Analyst role blends research and quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, client-facing interactions, and project management.

• At S&P Global Ratings, your analytical opinion truly matters and each person who works here has an essential role in S&P Global Ratings reputation of integrity, transparency, and analytical excellence.
• S&P Global Ratings plays a vital role in bringing transparency and comparability to the financial markets and helps investors and others measure and manage credit risk.
• By supporting the capital markets, S&P Global Ratings helps people to start and grow businesses.

The Business Practice Groups include Corporates, Infrastructure, Americas Public Finance, Financial Institutions, Structured Finance,:

Corporates: Rating corporations from a diverse array of sectors, including but not limited to Oil & Gas, Media & Entertainment, Technology and Retail & Restaurants. These corporations come from all walks of life and can be as small as a chain of dental offices in the Midwest to household names like Sprint, Uber, and J. Crew.

Infrastructure: This includes rating debt from entities in the private sector that are increasingly willing to construct, lease, operate, and maintain infrastructure assets from airports and toll roads to power plants and schools. Due to the long-lived nature of these assets, debt capital plays an important role in financing infrastructure.

Americas Public Finance: Entities that are owned, sponsored, or created by the various levels of government are rated here: this includes rating local governments like New York City, higher education like Harvard University or even the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

Financial Institutions: Financial institutions is our term for entities that perform financial services for customers. Examples include banks (JP Morgan Chase), non-banks (Visa), insurance companies (MetLife) and Funds (money market funds).

Structured Finance: S&P’s Structured Finance (SF) division analyzes credit risk of debt instruments backed by an isolated pool of assets. The division is split into four main sectors, based off of the type of assets which back their respective debt-issuances: Asset-Backed Securities, Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities, Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities, and Structured Credit.

Responsibilities:

• Perform rigorous analytical work, research, fundamental credit analysis, analysis of financial statements, building of financial models and forecasts, and writing of analytical reports on rated corporate entities
• Maintain direct analytical responsibility for a portfolio of rated corporate issuers with the guidance of a Senior Analyst
• Ongoing surveillance and rating recommendations
• Repeat analytical contact with rated entities’ senior management, and presentation of analytical findings to internal and external constituencies

Compensation/Benefits Information:

S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $94,976 to $150,000. Base salary ranges may vary by geographic location. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan.

What We’re Looking For:
Basic Qualifications:

• MBA, MPA, JD, CFA, or other advanced degree in related field
• 3+ years of direct experience in one or more of the S&P Global Ratings sectors: Corporates, Infrastructure, Americas Public Finance, Financial Institutions, or Structured Finance.
• 3 years a relevant demonstrable credit analysis experience
• Deep understanding of financial statement analysis and accounting concepts
• Proficiency with figures and the ability to maintain accuracy and be detail-oriented while complying with deadlines.
• Strong Excel/Word/PowerPoint and database application skills
• Ability to prepare forecasts based upon reasoned assumptions.
• Solid communication skills, verbal and written, as well as the capacity to expand, learn, and contribute.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Superb, in-depth understanding of financial statement analysis

No Sponsorship Available: This role is limited to persons with the indefinite right to work in the United States.

Application Disclaimer: Please submit your application, only if you plan to attend this year’s 2024 PowerToFly virtual event on November 14th, 2024.

About S&P Global Ratings
At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction. By bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, we enable growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions.

S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI).  S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.

For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/ratings

What’s In It For You?

Our Purpose:

Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology–the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:
 

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include: 

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at S&P Global:
At S&P Global, we believe diversity fuels creative insights, equity unlocks opportunity, and inclusion drives growth and innovation – Powering Global Markets. Our commitment centers on our global workforce, ensuring that our people are empowered to bring their whole selves to work. It doesn’t stop there, we strive to better reflect and serve the communities in which we live and work, and advocate for greater opportunity for all.
 

S&P Global has a Securities Disclosure and Trading Policy (“the Policy”) that seeks to mitigate conflicts of interest by monitoring and placing restrictions on personal securities holding and trading. The Policy is designed to promote compliance with global regulations. In some Divisions, pursuant to the Policy’s requirements, candidates at S&P Global may be asked to disclose securities holdings. Some roles may include a trading prohibition and remediation of positions when there is an effective or potential conflict of interest. Employment at S&P Global is contingent upon compliance with the Policy.