Rating Analyst, Infrastructure

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 09
**About the Role/The Team**:
You will report to the Head of Infrastructure, Latin America, and be working closely with highly experienced industry specialists, not only in Latin America but globally. S&P Global’s culture can be described as highly integrated & collegiate, as a firm we work supporting each other to deliver the best solutions to clients.
**Responsibilities and Impact**:
**The Impact**: At S&P Global Ratings, your analytical opinion truly matters and each person who works here has an essential role in maintaining and growing 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. By supporting capital markets, S&P Global Ratings helps people grow businesses, cities and states to build highways and hospitals, and manufacturers to build factories and create jobs.
Infrastructure 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 right position for you. It offers the opportunity to work in a collegial culture with great potential for professional development and career growth. To succeed, you must be interested in conducting quantitative analysis and have a knack for client service and problem solving. In addition, this role provides a great opportunity to be exposed to a range of markets and asset types; it encompasses compelling analytical expertise and effective management skills.

**Responsibilities**:
Manage a portfolio of Infrastructure and Project Finance credits.
Perform basic fundamental credit analysis, forecasting, and industry analysis.
Manage client relationships and the full life cycle of their ratings.
With the mentorship of senior analysts, you will work closely with the sector team on its ongoing surveillance of a portfolio of rated issuers.
As a high performing team member, you are likely to be considered for providing support on more complex issuers and transactions.
Provide input to financial models and written analysis used for committee reviews and external publications. Maintain a centralized source of news information, including digital media, and carries out research for monitoring of the industry including examining corporate or municipal financial information.
Drive continuous innovation and great customer service.
**What We’re Looking For**:Basic Required Qualifications**:
An S&P Global employee typically has 2 years of applicable experience in Credit Analysis, Fixed Income, Risk, or another related field.
Demonstrated knowledge or experience with Infrastructure and Project Finance is preferred.
Strong analytical skills with an understanding of financial statement analysis and accounting concepts.
Must be able to quickly absorb, analyze, and act upon information, while demonstrating strong proficiency with quantitative data.
Strong communication skills ( verbal and written) are required.
Aptitude for expanding, learning, and passion for contributing.
Must be highly organized with the ability to multitask, manage competing priorities, and work under time pressure to meet deadlines.
Must be fluent in English and Spanish. Portuguese language skills are highly desirable.
**Preferred Qualifications**:
An advanced degree or CFA is strongly preferred.
Strong proficiency with VBA, financial models and financial data.
Knowledge of programming languages (e.g. C++, MATLAB, Python, R or VBA).
Prior experience with data analysis. Knowledge of SQL and experience in databases such as Oracle, Sybase, or Access would be helpful.
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.
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