About the Role
This role transforms complex credit research, data, and analytical concepts into clear, accurate, and market-ready digital content within S&P Global Ratings' Editorial team. The team collaborates with writers, editors, digital content producers, and Ratings analysts across all sectors, valuing collaboration, accountability, sound judgment, and continuous learning.
Responsibilities
- Edit credit-related research and data, including rating actions, event-driven commentary, and in-depth entity-specific and industry reports, ensuring grammatical accuracy, adherence to house style, and compliance with publishing standards.
- Apply digital-first principles — including brevity, plain English, and audience-focused content presentation — to refine key messages, topic sentences, headlines, and article structure.
- Use sound editorial judgment to clarify complex financial market concepts while preserving analytical meaning, accuracy, and compliance with applicable standards.
- Collaborate with analysts, editors, digital content producers, and other stakeholders to resolve editorial questions, manage competing priorities, and support timely publication.
- Perform production tasks to ensure articles conform to global publishing standards for format, style, and branding specifications.
- Take ownership of assigned work, apply sound decision-making, and escalate issues appropriately when editorial, regulatory, or reputational risks arise.
Requirements
- 3+ years of relevant experience in editing for financial research or business media.
- Demonstrated experience editing digital content for professional, financial, business, or market-focused audiences.
- Sound knowledge of financial markets terminology and concepts.
- Strong attention to detail, with the ability to identify inconsistencies, clarify complex information, and ensure content is clear, concise, complete, and accurate.
- Demonstrated ability to exercise sound editorial judgment, manage deadlines independently, and make decisions that support quality, accuracy, and market relevance.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively in a global, team-oriented environment, with the interpersonal skills to engage effectively with subject matter experts and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience working with credit research, ratings-related content, financial news, investment research, or other regulated financial market content.
- Familiarity with digital publishing workflows, content management systems, search-friendly headline writing, and audience-focused content presentation.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with global stakeholders and communicate clearly with subject matter experts, including analysts, researchers, economists, product teams, and publishing colleagues.
- Interest in identifying opportunities to improve editorial processes, consistency, quality, and the reader experience.
- Candidates who reach the final stage of the interview process must attend at least one in-person interview.
- Employees are required to work from the office a minimum of two days per week.
Skills
- Editing
- Digital Content Creation
- Financial Markets Terminology
- Attention to Detail
- Editorial Judgment
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Content Management Systems
- Headline Writing
Location
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3+ years of relevant experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in digital journalism, communications, or a related discipline required.
Salary/Compensations
- $79,500 to $88,000 CAD
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.
- Benefits for families.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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’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.
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.
