S&P Global

S&P Global Ratings

Associate or Associate Director, Infrastructure Ratings

The Team

S&P Global’s EMEA Ratings Infrastructure Practice has an Associate/Associate Director opening in London. You will be part of the EMEA team comprising infrastructure and project finance rating analysts based in the EMEA region including London, Madrid, Paris and Dubai.

You will establish yourself as an analyst with a focus on excellence in analytics both in terms of quality and timelines, and client service to investors and issuers. Besides the direct responsibility for your own portfolio, you will be extensively involved in the analysis of infrastructure entities across the EMEA region and global benchmarking. To this effect, you will be working closely with a number of highly experienced industry specialists. You will report into a UK based infrastructure Lead Analyst and indirectly into the Head of EMEA Infrastructure Ratings.

The Impact

At S&P Global Ratings, your analytical opinion truly matters and each team member has an essential role in our reputation of integrity, transparency, and ratings excellence. S&P Global Ratings plays a vital role in bringing transparency and comparability to the financial markets and helps investors and others measure and manage credit risk.

What’s in it for you

Infrastructure finance is one of the fastest growing sectors of the capital markets and is a key funding source and growth driver for many areas of the economy. If you are interested in helping to facilitate this growth while challenging yourself in a fast-paced environment, this is the position for you. To succeed, you must be comfortable with quantitative analysis and have an ability for problem solving. In addition, this role provides a great opportunity to become a true credit expert and be exposed to a range of markets and asset types.

Responsibilities

• Owning the analytical oversight of a portfolio of infrastructure and project finance entities.
• Researching information that supports the company-specific analysis and peer commentaries.
• Producing and processing data, information and financial projections, running credit models, analysing cash flows.
• Reviewing transaction documents.
• Providing concise and high quality analytical reasoning in internal and external reports as well as when presenting to senior team members, clients and investors.
• Spearheading problem solving in order to foster a continuous improvement mentality.
• Developing and maintain a deep understanding of the industry trends and issues. 

What We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor degree holder of Business, Economics, Finance or Engineering, or a related subject. A master’s degree is desirable.
• An S&P Global employee at this level would typically have at least 3-5 years of credit expertise at Associate level and 5 + years experience at Associate Director level. This will typically be from a financial institution in the field of infrastructure and energy and ideally with some Project Finance exposure. 
• Deep understanding of financial analysis and accounting, as well as ability to prepare detailed forecasts and modelling.
• Experience with and/or ability to master reviewing of legal transaction documentation.
• Strong written, communication, and presentation skills in English.
• Excellent time management skills and drive for execution and manage deadlines.
• Strong team player and strong interpersonal skills.
• Adaptability and flexibility.

Grade Level: 11 or 12 (for internal purposes)

Location: London

Benefits

Here at S&P Global we believe in offering a competitive transparent benefits package. In London this includes a Wellbeing Support Program, Recharge (S&P Global’s flexible time-off approach under which there is no prescribed maximum amount of time off you can take), our hybrid working model, our Parental Leave, and Give Back Days (five days of paid leave per calendar year to spend volunteering in your community). We encourage you to ask about our benefits during our screening process with our talent acquisition team.

S&P Global delivers essential intelligence that powers decision making. We provide the world’s leading organizations with the right data, connected technologies and expertise they need to move ahead. As part of our team, you’ll help solve complex challenges that equip businesses, governments and individuals with the knowledge to adapt to a changing economic landscape.

S&P Global Ratings offers critical insights for credit, risk and sustainable finance solutions that are essential to translating complexity into clarity, so market participants can uncover opportunities.

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. The Policy is designed to promote compliance with global regulations. In some Divisions, pursuant to the Policy’s requirements, candidates at S&P Global may be asked to disclose securities holdings. Some roles may include a trading prohibition and remediation of positions when there is an effective or potential conflict of interest. Employment at S&P Global is contingent upon compliance with the Policy. 

Equal Opportunity Employer

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: The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law. 

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