About the Role
The successful candidate will join the S&P Global Ratings’ Sovereign and International Public Finance (IPF) ratings team, working closely with senior leadership and analytical oversight councils. This team manages high-profile government and public sector related credits, including multilateral financial institutions, assigning and monitoring ratings, and ensuring rating consistency. The role offers exposure to senior global stakeholders in a collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day guidance and coaching to Research Assistants and Rating Analysts.
- Drive consistency and 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 and updates for assigned portfolio, synthesizing performance and market signals.
- Support LLM tools and automation to accelerate workflows, followed by validation and refinement.
- Operate alongside AI agents in recurring workflows.
- Prepare and review inputs, reconcile metrics, and document assumptions.
- Prepare and review key outputs ensuring clarity and alignment to methodology.
- Support maintenance and 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 and analysis into a clear narrative.
- Advise on issues within clear parameters, integrating and communicating complex information.
- Build trusted stakeholder relationships through emotionally intelligent, collaborative, and adaptable delivery.
- Ensure adherence to methodology, confidentiality, and data governance.
- Embed responsible, governed AI use, utilizing only approved tools and data.
- Drive controlled automation and agentic workflows by contributing to design requirements and controls.
- Support decisions relating to guardrails for automation, defining what can be automated versus what must remain human-led.
Requirements
- Coordinator for the Global, Sovereign & regional IPF AOCCs, supporting AOCC chairs and regional sector leads.
- Support for Chief Analytical Officer, Head of Sovereign and Multilateral Institutions Ratings on research projects and initiatives.
- Support for planning, execution, and monitoring of projects to enhance analytics quality and market impact.
- Strong Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and database application skills.
- Ownership and execution maturity across multiple credits, delivering high quality with limited oversight.
- Strong collaboration and relationship management skills, influencing through credibility and constructive challenge.
- Coaching capability that improves team consistency through shared standards and tools.
- Continuous improvement mindset.
- AI fluency with judgment.
- Strong credit, financial, and risk analysis linking drivers to forward-looking views and risk appetite.
- Practical experience embedding AI, LLMs, and agents into workflows to improve productivity and insight.
- Strong analytical tool capability and willingness to learn data/automation tools.
- Strong synthesis into concise narratives for senior stakeholders/committees with transparent evidence.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, able to present research and analysis clearly.
- High standards for quality, traceability, and governance; operates effectively in controlled environments.
- Sound judgment on responsible AI use.
- Ability to contribute to scalable automation/agent workflows.
Skills
- Credit Analysis
- Financial Analysis
- Risk Analysis
- AI
- LLMs
- Automation
- Data Analysis
- Excel
- Word
- PowerPoint
- Database Applications
- Communication
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Collaboration
- Relationship Management
- Coaching
- Continuous Improvement
- Governance
- Data Governance
- AI Use
- AI Agents
Location
- Worldwide
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
- $100,000 USD to $128,000 USD
Benefits
- Health care coverage designed for the mind and body
- Generous time off
- Access to resources for career growth and learning new skills
- Competitive pay
- Retirement planning
- Continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution
- Financial wellness programs
- Perks for partners and children
- Retail discounts
- Referral incentive awards
About the Company
- 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.
- 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.
- Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
