Senior Associate, Strategic Planning

As one of the world’s top three credit ratings agencies, Fitch Ratings plays a critical role in global capital markets by providing credit analysis, ratings, research, and commentary to financial market participants. For over 100 years, Fitch Ratings has been creating value for global markets through its rigorous analysis and deep expertise, which have resulted in a variety of market leading tools, methodologies, indices, research, and analytical products. Fitch Ratings is part of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries, which also includes Fitch Solutions. Explore a career at Fitch Ratings and you’ll join a collaborative network of curious minds. Together we work with integrity and objectivity to provide clarity to the world’s financial markets. The accessibility and depth of experience of our industry leading analysts, combined with our broad sector credentials, allow us to help market participants make important credit decisions with confidence.
Fitch Ratings is currently seeking a Senior Operations Associate based out of our Manchester office.
Ratings Workflow Solutions is a cross-functional team responsible for maintaining, enhancing, and building the ratings applications and processes that our Ratings staff use to do their jobs. The goal of Ratings Workflow Solutions is to deliver continuous improvement, mitigate risks, and deploy standardization and automation within Fitch’s Ratings applications and workflows.
We're looking for an organized and analytically driven individual with 1-3 years of experience who wants to grow their skills in strategic planning and product management. This person will work collaboratively across our 5 Product areas to support roadmap development, execute planning processes, and track progress against business outcomes.
Based in Manchester and reporting to the Head of Strategic Planning, the successful candidate will help maintain and grow this centralized function. Strategic Planning Support: Project Coordination: Prepare regular tribe performance reports including KPIs, benefits tracking, roadmap status, and budget summaries; maintain dashboards and support data analysis to inform decision-making
Assist with expense tracking, capital planning data, and headcount reporting.
Bachelor's Degree and 1-3 years of experience with product coordination, project management, or business analysis
Familiarity with Agile methodology
Experience supporting planning processes or tracking delivery milestones
Proficiency in Jira, Power BI Excel and PowerPoint
ability to translate data into actionable insights
Robust experience with Power BI & Excel
Hybrid Work Environment: 3 days a week in office required
Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity
Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and long-term goals
Comprehensive healthcare offerings that enable physical, mental, financial, social, and occupational wellbeing
Supportive Parenting Policies: Family-friendly policies, including a generous global parental leave plan, designed to help you balance career and family life effectively
Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days, matched funding for donations and ample opportunities to volunteer in your community
If you, or your immediate family, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.
We evaluatequalified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.