About the Role
The Infrastructure & Project Finance practice provides credit analysis on essential, long-lived assets and ring-fenced project financings. The North American Regulated Utilities team covers a portfolio of Investor-Owned Utility companies. At S&P Global, we embrace AI as an enabler, guided by rigorous governance and risk management, to enhance our intelligence and deliver actionable insights.
Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day guidance/coaching to Research Assistants and Rating Analysts, building capability in credit, data discipline, and tooling.
- Drive consistency/scalability by codifying standard work and promoting disciplined adoption.
- Strengthen AI-enabled productivity by creating reusable assets and proposing lightweight automations.
- Foster continuous improvement by proposing enhancements that remove manual steps.
- Partner with senior team members and Data/Engineering to identify and scale AI/automation use cases.
- Lead end-to-end execution for assigned credits, ensuring high-quality analysis and timely delivery.
- Own surveillance/updates for assigned portfolio, synthesizing performance, market signals, and peer context.
- Support LLM tools/automation being embedded to accelerate workflows, followed by structured validation and refinement.
- Operate alongside AI agents in recurring workflows.
- Prepare/review inputs, reconcile metrics, document assumptions/changes to ensure adherence to methodologies/standard operating procedures.
- Prepare/review key outputs ensuring clarity and alignment to methodology/sector frameworks.
- Support maintenance/review of models to ensure robustness and repeatability.
- Engage with external parties alongside senior team members.
- Craft client and executive-ready stories that translate complex data, analysis, and research into a clear narrative.
- Building trusted stakeholder relationships through emotionally intelligent, collaborative and adaptable delivery.
- Ensure adherence to methodology/confidentiality/data governance; escalate issues early.
- Embed responsible, governed AI use: approved tools/data only; protect confidential info.
- Drive controlled automation/agentic workflows by contributing to design requirements/controls, supporting testing/rollout, and training others.
- Supports decisions relating to guardrails for automation: defining what can be automated vs must remain human-led.
Requirements
- Energy or infrastructure background with an understanding of credit analysis gained in transactional, analytical, or credit roles.
- Willingness to rapidly pivot into different sectors to meet client needs and analytical needs across the practice.
- Ownership/execution maturity across multiple credits; delivers high quality with limited oversight and models values-led behavior.
- Strong collaboration/relationship management; influences through credibility and constructive challenge.
- Coaching capability that improves team consistency through shared standards and tools.
- Continuous improvement mindset.
- AI fluency with judgement.
- Strong credit/financial/risk analysis linking drivers to forward-looking views and risk appetite.
- Practical experience embedding AI/LLMs/agents into workflows to improve productivity and insight.
- Strong analytical tool capability; willingness to learn data/automation tools to facilitate AI-enabled workflows.
- Strong synthesis into concise narratives for senior stakeholders/committees with transparent evidence.
- Effective written and verbal communicator, able to present research and analysis in a clear, structured way.
- High standards for quality, traceability, and governance; operates effectively in controlled environments.
- Sound judgement on responsible AI use.
- Ability to contribute to scalable automation/agent workflows.
- 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.
Skills
- Credit Analysis
- Data Discipline
- AI
- Automation
- Financial Analysis
- Risk Analysis
- LLMs
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Relationship Management
- Coaching
Location
- United States
- Canada
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Three to five years of relevant work experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required
- Master’s degree or professional certification (such as CFA) is highly valued
Salary/Compensations
- $112,000 USD to $153,000 USD (US Candidates)
- 94,000 CAD to 133,000 CAD (Canadian Candidates)
Benefits
- Annual incentive plan
- 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: 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.
About the Company
- Credit 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.
- 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.
- At S&P Global Ratings, you will contribute to independent credit opinions the market relies on, strengthened by innovation that accelerates analysis.
- 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.
- 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.
- Our Mission: Advancing Essential Intelligence.
- We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- US Candidates Only: Know Your Rights: Workplace discrimination is illegal
