About the Role:Grade Level (for internal use): 12
The Role: Associate Director, Infrastructure Latin America - S&P Global Ratings
The Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Team: You will report to the Head of Infrastructure, Latin America, and be working closely with several highly experienced industry specialists, not only in Latin America but globally.
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 comfortable with quantitative analysis and have a knack for 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.
Work schedule (Time shift): Full Time
The Impact: At S&P Global Ratings, your analytical opinion truly matters and each person who works here has an essential role in 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.
The successful applicant will have the opportunity to further expand analytical excellence on an ongoing basis as we aim to encompass achievement within a working environment that is rewarding, stimulating and where there is a constant focus on building skills and competencies through learning.
Responsibilities: Demonstrate analytical excellence and good presentation skills in front of internal and external audiences, to explain our credit rating opinions both internally as well as externally, to investors and the media.Provide highest customer service standards, whilst adhering to established ratings criteria, methodology, policies and procedures.Support the analytical growth of Junior analysts in the region, by providing timely feedback and coaching them on core analytical skills.Co-ordinate work across several teams within S&P Global.Taking the lead on special projects within the Infrastructure Practice as appropriate.Basic Qualifications: Bachelor degree holder of Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related subjectSolid experience (5+ years) in financial analysis within a large commercial bank, investment bank, investing institution/asset manager, rating agency, or an audit company working in the field of financial services.Understanding of the power, utilities or infrastructure asset classes.English language skills must be excellent to communicate properly and precisely within the organization and publish research as discussed above.Strong analytical skills with a deep understanding of financial statement analysis and accounting concepts.Proficiency with calculations and the ability to maintain accuracy and be detail oriented while complying with strict and tight deadlines.Ability to multi-task and manage deadlines under time pressure.Experience in managing, interpreting, and synthesizing data for analytical purposes.Strong interpersonal and communication skills.Team player with excellent time management skills.Project management skills.Excel skills (including formulas, macros, pivot tables, data, filters).Diligent and intellectually curious, self-starter with a strong work ethic and a drive to succeed.Preferred Qualifications: MBA or Master's Degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, Mathematics and/or CFA.Strong proficiency with Excel & VBA, financial models and financial data.Strong PowerPoint and database application skills.Knowledge of programming languages (e.g. C++, MATLAB, Python, R or VBA)Prior experience with data analysis.Proficiency/familiarity in reading legal documentation.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.
Equal Opportunity Employer: S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
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