Research Assistant, Financial Services, Infrastructure

**Research Assistant, Financial Services, Infrastructure & Alternative Assets - Credit Estimates**:

- Toronto, Canada
- Ratings
- 319671

**Job Description**:
**About The Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**:
08
** The Team and Impact**:

- The analyses you produce will be used by S&P teams to rate Collateralized Loan Obligations, and by our clients to evaluate the credit quality of their overall loan portfolios.
- CLO Investors and Managers rely on our evaluation of middle market companies. Although our credit opinions are not publicly disclosed, they have a tremendous impact not only on the credit quality of the CLOs we rate but also on the ability of small businesses to borrow from an important segment of the financial markets.
- As a **Credit Estimate** **Research Assistant,** you will analyze companies across a variety of sectors, and you will learn the most important determinants of credit quality for small and medium sized companies.

**What’s in it for you**:

- Our most successful **Credit Estimate Research Assistants** move up within our team or into the other analytical teams that focus specifically on individual sectors.
- Opportunities to work with a global team and hands on high impact credit experience

**Responsibilities**:

- As a **Credit Estimates Research Assistant**, you will analyze company financials and prepare daily company evaluations for review by senior analysts.
- You will also assist with detailed financial analysis for use in reports and related materials for S&P Global Ratings publications.
- You will work within a global team of analysts to analyze pertinent financial, operational and industry data to determine Credit Estimates.
- You will initially spend most of your time learning the methodology by which S&P performs credit analysis and getting familiar with our analytical tools and processes. You will focus on analyzing a number of diverse companies and learn how to evaluate credit quality as efficiently as possible.
- As you gain experience, you may deal with investors directly and work on research projects.
- Over time, strong performers are expected to move into one of the Canadian or US corporate teams as a primary analyst covering their own list of credits.

**What We’re Looking For**:

- A bachelor’s degree in finance, Economics, Commerce, Business or Mathematics Strong analytical skills, especially financial statement and quantitative analysis
- Some commercial credit or financial services analytical experience
- An S&P Global employee at this level would typically have:

- 1+ years of related financial services work experience
- Strong Excel skills
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Preferably progress towards CFA/MBA

**Right to Work Requirements**:
**This role is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in Canada.**

**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 coll