Associate, Credit Research and Insights

3 months ago


London, United Kingdom S&P Global Full time

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 11

**The Team**:
S&P Global Ratings Research team generates leading-edge research and commentary on credit market behavior, default research, and ratings behavior.

**The Impact**:
The Associate will play an important role in shaping and managing fixed income research projects in the Global Research group. The role works closely with senior team members to prepare detailed statistical and analytical reports and related materials, conduct specific research projects, and interact with senior analysts and management across the firm and other external parties at various levels to secure, organize, analyze, and validate information.

**What you stand to Gain**:
Contribute to and produce analytical reports extensively read both within, and outside the firm

Encouraged to produce original content

Exposure to multiple asset classes (corporates, public finance, structured finance, sovereigns, etc.)

Global coverage and exposure of the role

**Responsibilities**:
Combine datasets (such as ratings, pricing, credit derivatives, macroeconomics, equity) and investigate key data relationships

Conduct quantitative and qualitative research, and various statistical analysis to analyze trends

Manage Access and Oracle databases, including writing queries and data manipulation

Write commentary to support analytical observations

Meet rigorous publishing deadlines

Interpret research report details for clients, including bankers, risk managers, and senior internal managers

Stay actively abreast of financial market events and their implications

**What We’re Looking For**:
Excellent quantitative and numerical skills, preferably 2 to 4 years of experience analyzing fixed income and macroeconomic data. Prior experience aggregating and interpreting company and sector-level financial data a plus.

Strong knowledge of credit markets, particularly fixed income products (corporate and public sector bonds, structured finance, leveraged loans, CDS, other derivatives)

Excellent Excel knowledge and experience with database and statistical tools (Oracle SQL, R, Python, Matlab)

Strong oral and written communication skills (writing sample required), speak with confidence, and be viewed as credible

Must be very detail oriented

Demonstrated ability to self-manage, take initiative and meet deadlines without supervision

Ability to effectively multi-task

CFA, FRM, CPA, or MBA strongly preferred

Prior experience in a bank or analyzing financial institutions

Prior experience writing analytical reports and market trends

**Prior experience in covered asset classes**: corporate and financial institutions, structured finance, and/or public finance
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About S&P Global Ratings
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.

What’s In It For You?

**Our Purpose**:
Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology-the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

**Our People**:
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.

**Our Values**:
Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. 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.

**Benefits**:
We take care of you, so you can take care of bus



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