Associate Director – Infrastructure (Project Finance), New York or Toronto at S&P Global | CA | Rezi

Associate Director – Infrastructure (Project Finance), New York or Toronto at S&P Global

Associate Director – Infrastructure (Project Finance), New York or Toronto

S&P Global · CA

2 weeks ago

Associate Director – Infrastructure (Project Finance), New York or Toronto

S&P Global · CA

17 days ago
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About the Role

The North America Infrastructure Project Finance Ratings team at S&P Global Ratings assesses essential infrastructure projects across the United States and Canada. The team focuses on rigorous credit assessment, clear analytical reasoning, and collaboration to support capital formation in critical infrastructure subsectors.

Responsibilities

  • Coach junior team members on credit fundamentals, modeling discipline, and the responsible use of AI tools.
  • Coordinate work across credits to manage quality and capacity risks.
  • Embed continuous improvement into team routines by developing analytical playbooks, prompt libraries, and standard processes.
  • Drive adoption of new processes across the team.
  • Lead end-to-end credit analysis for an assigned portfolio of North America infrastructure project finance credits.
  • Prepare committee-ready materials for rating committees.
  • Participate actively in rating committees.
  • Manage portfolio surveillance and updates, connecting market developments and project performance to forward-looking risk themes.
  • Embed AI tools into analytical workflows with disciplined validation and documentation.
  • Synthesize data, analysis, and research into clear, market-facing narratives for senior stakeholders and market participants.
  • Contribute to thought leadership and sector commentaries.
  • Ensure adherence to analytical methodology, confidentiality standards, and data governance requirements.
  • Escalate risks early.
  • Contribute to controlled automation workflows with appropriate governance and human oversight.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of relevant experience in project finance or infrastructure finance, including roles in ratings, banking, advisory, investing, or credit.
  • Demonstrated understanding of infrastructure project structures and documentation, including PPP agreements, EPC and O&M contracts, and offtake or availability-payment frameworks.
  • Demonstrated financial analysis skills, including cash flow modeling, ratio and covenant analysis, and accounting fundamentals.
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality credit analysis across a portfolio with limited oversight.
  • Ability to coach junior analysts through structured feedback and quality review.
  • Practical experience embedding generative AI, large language models, or agentic workflows into analytical processes with disciplined governance, validation, and responsible AI practices including bias awareness and adherence to approved boundaries.
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills for committee-ready documentation and engagement with issuers, investors, and market participants.
  • Experience scaling automation or agentic workflows by defining requirements, supporting testing, and enabling team adoption with appropriate governance controls.
  • Experience simplifying analytical processes through standardization, tooling, and automation.
  • Demonstrated credit analysis skills with the ability to connect market and sector developments to emerging credit risk themes.
  • Must attend at least one in-person interview at your nearest S&P Global Ratings office.
  • Employees are required to work from the office a minimum of two days per week.
  • Must have an indefinite right to work in the United States or Canada.

Skills

  • Credit fundamentals
  • Modeling discipline
  • AI tools
  • Analytical playbooks
  • Prompt libraries
  • Standard processes
  • Credit analysis
  • Portfolio surveillance
  • Market developments
  • Project performance
  • Risk themes
  • Generative AI
  • Large language models
  • Agentic workflows
  • Data governance
  • Controlled automation
  • Financial analysis
  • Cash flow modeling
  • Ratio analysis
  • Covenant analysis
  • Accounting fundamentals
  • Written communication
  • Verbal communication
  • Automation scaling
  • Process standardization
  • Tooling

Location

  • New York, New York, United States

Work Type

  • Hybrid

Experience Level

  • 5+ years

Education Level

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent required
  • Master's degree or professional certification (such as CFA) is highly valued

Salary/Compensations

  • USD $120,000 to $189,000
  • CAD $110,000 to $165,000

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: Best-in class benefits for families.
  • Beyond the Basics: Retail discounts and 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.
  • 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.