About the Role
The role offers the opportunity to work on complex structures in fast-growing market segments such as power, midstream, refining, and digital infrastructure, while contributing to S&P Global Ratings’ high-profile coverage of the global infrastructure sector. Analysts will use their corporate credit and project finance skills to facilitate and support capital formation for this critical sector.
Responsibilities
- Act as a senior reference point coaching on credit fundamentals, modeling discipline, data quality, and standard work, including how to use AI as an enabler with governance.
- Coordinate work across credits, anticipate capacity/quality risks, and influence outcomes through planning and constructive challenge in ambiguous situations.
- Embed continuous improvement into routines by improving playbooks/SOPs/prompt libraries and driving adoption.
- Partner with stakeholders to identify and shape high-impact use cases, supporting testing/adoption/rollout with governance, controls, and change management.
- Foster a critical thinking mindset, challenging assumptions and the status quo to generate insights that shape market views and strategic decisions.
- Model enterprise behaviors: Discovery, Integrity, and Partnership, including human-centric leadership alongside AI-enabled change.
- Deliver end-to-end analytical execution across a defined portfolio, setting a consistently high bar for quality, timeliness, and clarity to sustain customer trust.
- Lead surveillance and analytical updates, connecting performance, market developments, and issuer peers to forward-looking risk themes.
- Own the quality of key outputs, ensuring consistency and clarity of reasoning.
- Use approved GenAI/LLMs to accelerate research/comparisons/drafting.
- Operate effectively alongside AI agents in recurring workflows.
- Support the execution of AI-driven projects.
- Validate inputs, reconcile metrics, and document assumptions/model changes.
- Synthesize data, analysis, and research into executive-ready, market-facing narratives that convey S&P’s analytical expertise.
- Build collaborative stakeholder trust through empathetic communication, differentiate S&P’s market viewpoint, and drive engagement with market participants.
- Contribute to strategic initiatives and thought leadership by researching, drafting, and refining content with senior team input.
- Ensure adherence to methodology/confidentiality/data governance requirements and escalate emerging risks early.
- Embed responsible AI use in workflow processes.
- Drive controlled automation/agentic workflows to remove low-leverage work, defining requirements/controls and partnering with Data/Engineering to scale safely while setting expectations for ongoing monitoring and human oversight.
- Develop and articulate credit views and manage a portfolio of credits, preparing committee-ready materials and actively participating in rating committees.
- Lead external analytical engagements and demonstrate service excellence and professionalism.
- Contribute to sector expertise and support thought leadership by contributing to commentaries and sector publications.
- Stay current on market developments affecting North American infrastructure.
Requirements
- Employees are required to work from the office a minimum of two days per week.
- Candidates who reach the final stage of the interview process will be asked to attend at least one in-person interview at their nearest S&P Global Ratings office before an offer can be extended.
- 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.
- Employment at S&P Global is contingent upon compliance with the Policy.
Skills
- Credit fundamentals
- Modelling discipline
- Data quality
- AI as an enabler
- Governance
- Critical thinking
- Human-centric leadership
- Analytical execution
- Surveillance
- GenAI/LLMs
- AI agents
- Data validation
- Metric reconciliation
- Assumption documentation
- Model change documentation
- Market-facing narratives
- Stakeholder engagement
- Thought leadership
- Methodology adherence
- Confidentiality
- Data governance
- Responsible AI use
- Controlled automation
- Agentic workflows
- Credit analysis
- Financial analysis
- Financial services environment
- AI fluency
- Validation
- Bias/hallucination awareness
- Data protection
- Attribution
- Approved boundaries
- Written skills
- Verbal skills
- Committee-ready documentation
- Presentation skills
- Interactions with issuers, investors and market participants
- Accuracy
- Traceability
- Sound judgement
Location
- North America
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Five to ten years of relevant work experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required
- Master’s degree or professional certification (such as CFA or MBA) is highly valued
Salary/Compensations
- USD 120,000 to USD 189,000
- CAD 108,000 to CAD 165,000
Benefits
- Annual incentive plan
- Health care coverage designed for the mind and body
- Generous time off
- Access to a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills
- Competitive pay
- Retirement planning
- Continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution
- Financial wellness programs
- Perks for partners and little ones
- Retail discounts
- Referral incentive awards
About the Company
- S&P Global Ratings is an integral part of the Global Ratings Services team, comprising a diverse group of 1,400 analysts spread across key financial hubs worldwide.
- S&P Global Rating’s North America infrastructure practice is growing rapidly, supported by a strong pipeline of new financings and refinancing activity funding a wide range of essential infrastructure.
- At S&P Global, our values - Discovery, Integrity, and Partnership - shape how we work, how we collaborate, and how we earn trust with our customers and each other.
- We embrace AI as an enabler, guided by rigorous governance and risk management, to enhance what has always defined us: the intelligence of our people, deep relationships, and trusted insights.
- By leveraging technology with human expertise, we help our teams navigate complexity and deliver actionable, decision-ready intelligence without compromising quality, accountability, or integrity.
- At S&P Global Ratings, you will contribute to independent credit opinions the market relies on, strengthened by innovation that accelerates analysis.
- We are People Forward.
- At S&P Global, you’ll benefit from joining a diverse community where your growth and well-being come first—just like the 35,000+ colleagues who choose S&P Global every day.
- Bringing your best self to work in an environment that values inclusion, collaboration, and authentic engagement.
- Celebrating your achievements with us.
- We’re committed to your continuous learning, offering education, training, and career coaching to help you grow and adapt in a changing world.
- Connecting through our People Resource Groups, which foster awareness, engagement, and a sense of community—both within S&P Global and beyond.
- 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.
- Our Mission: Advancing Essential Intelligence.
- 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.
- Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.
- Our Values: Integrity, Discovery, Partnership
- 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.
- S&P Global enables businesses, governments, and individuals with trusted data, expertise and technology to make decisions with conviction.
- We are Advancing Essential Intelligence through world-leading benchmarks, data, and insights that customers need in order to plan confidently, act decisively, and thrive in a rapidly changing global landscape.
- From helping our customers assess new investments across the capital and commodities markets to navigating the energy expansion, acceleration of artificial intelligence, and evolution of public and private markets, we enable the world’s leading organizations to unlock opportunities, solve challenges, and plan for tomorrow – today.
Equal Opportunity
- S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.
- Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
- If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.
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