Research Assistant Structured Finance

**The Role**: Research Assistant - Structured Finance Ratings - ABS Non-traditional

**The Team**: S&P Global Ratings is seeking a Research Assistant to join its non-traditional asset-backed team within the structured finance practice. The Research Assistant will be part of a team which provides and monitors credit ratings and opinions for securitizations backed by a wide variety of nontraditional assets, including aircraft, container, railcar, NNN, and other lease-based products, corporate securitizations, small business, solar, and timeshare loans, among others.

This role blends quantitative and qualitative analytical abilities with strong interpersonal, communication, research, project management, and time management skills. In this role, the Research Assistant will support the sector lead, analytical managers, and senior analysts in administrative tasks, completing the end-to-end ratings process, reviewing documents, assessing the credit profile of collateral pools, conducting cash flow analyses, compiling data sets, creating templates and presentation materials. The Research Assistant will also help track key performance indicators for the analytical managers and sector lead, aggregate data, maintain team presentations, participate in credit rating committees and play an important role in improving our analytical tools and streamlining our processes.

**What’s in it for you**: Structured finance is an important sector 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 comfortable with quantitative and qualitative analysis and have a knack for problem-solving.

**Responsibilities**:
Support sector lead, analytical managers, and analysts in administrative tasks, preparing and aggregating key performance indicators, data and presentations, and contribute to the end-to-end ratings process for new issue and surveillance transactions, as needed.

Support analysts in understanding and performing credit and cash flow analysis, synthesize results, and present findings in a timely manner. Review third-party model output and

reconcile with cash flow results from internal models.
Support analysts in reviewing and comparing legal and operating documents to ensure consistency with criteria and identify issues with the transaction structure. Provide comments to senior analysts and external parties, as requested.

Actively manage relationships with sector lead, analytical managers, and analysts, as requested.

Demonstrate strong knowledge of excel and power point. Understand fundamentals of ratings criteria and cash flow analysis by helping analysts to resolve clients’ analytical questions

Provide research and data to sector lead, analytical managers, and senior analysts and actively help with outreach efforts, including timely commentaries, podcasts, and webinars.

**What We’re Looking For**:
**Basic Qualifications**:
Excellent verbal and written communications skills

Advanced Excel, Powerpoint, & word experience/skills

Experience with cash flow modeling

Research experience

Admin/Support role experience

Understanding of financial markets

Excellent research skills

Ability to analyze and solve non-routine problems with ingenuity in a timely and insightful manner

Project management skills

Ability to manage multiple tasks and tight deadlines under time pressure

Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work well in a collaborative team

Diligent and intellectually curious self-starter with a strong work ethic and a drive to succeed

Undergraduate degree

**Preferred Qualifications**:
Prior experience with data analysis.

Proven research, verbal, and written communication skills

**Location**: Dallas, TX | Centennial, CO | Toronto, IL

**Grade/Level ( relevant for internal applicants only )**: 8

(No Sponsorship Available) This role is limited to persons with the indefinite right to work in the United States (for US locations) and/or Canada (for Canadian locations).

Return to Work
Have you taken time out for caring responsibilities and are now looking to return to work? As part of our Return-to-Work initiative, we are encouraging enthusiastic and talented returners to apply, and will actively support your return to the workplace.

**Compensation/Benefits Information (US Applicants Only)**:
S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $41,100 to $81,575. Base salary ranges may vary by geographic location.
In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan.

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