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About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use):
11 The Team:
Credit Ratings is an integral part of the Global Ratings Services team, comprising a diverse group of 1,400 analysts spread across key financial hubs worldwide. We are dedicated to delivering high-quality insights and exceptional client service across all industry sectors.
The Public Finance practice delivers credit opinions on public-sector issuers (including states/provinces, local governments, public agencies, not-for-profits, and infrastructure-related municipal issuers). Analysts translate local economic and demographic trends, revenue stability, governance, and long-term liabilities into transparent views that help communities finance essential services and long-duration investments.
The Housing team is a dynamic, collaborative group that covers a portfolio of approximately 600 ratings associated with housing finance agencies, public housing authorities, and community development financial institutions. We analyze capital fund financings and federally-enhanced housing issues across the country, combining independent analytical work with strong team collaboration. Our team values analytical excellence, strategic thinking, and the ability to translate complex affordable housing market dynamics into clear, actionable insights for our clients and stakeholders.
The Impact:
At S&P Global, our values - Discovery, Integrity, and Partnership - shape how we work, how we collaborate, and how we earn trust with our customers and each other. We embrace AI as an enabler, guided by rigorous governance and risk management, to enhance what has always defined us: the intelligence of our people, deep relationships, and trusted insights. By leveraging technology with human expertise, we help our teams navigate complexity and deliver actionable, decision-ready intelligence without compromising quality, accountability, or integrity.
What You Stand to Gain:
At S&P Global Ratings, you will contribute to independent credit opinions the market relies on, strengthened by innovation that accelerates analysis.
We are People Forward. When you join S&P Global, you'll benefit from:

• Joining a diverse community where your growth and well-being come first-just like the 35,000+ colleagues who choose S&P Global every day.
• Bringing your best self to work in an environment that values inclusion, collaboration, and authentic engagement.
• Celebrating your achievements with us. We're committed to your continuous learning, offering education, training, and career coaching to help you grow and adapt in a changing world.
• Connecting through our People Resource Groups, which foster awareness, engagement, and a sense of community-both within S&P Global and beyond.

Responsibilities:
Team Contribution & Capability Building

• Provide day-to-day guidance/coaching to Research Assistants and Rating Analysts, building capability in credit, data discipline, and tooling and reinforcing values-led behaviors.
• Drive consistency/scalability by codifying standard work and promoting disciplined adoption to strengthen trusted, repeatable insights.
• Strengthen AI-enabled productivity by creating reusable assets and proposing lightweight automations that free capacity for human analysis and relationship work.
• Foster continuous improvement by proposing enhancements that remove manual steps without compromising governance or judgement.
• Partner with senior team members and Data/Engineering to identify and scale AI/automation use cases with governance-by-design, controls, and adoption support.

Core Analytical & Delivery

• Lead end-to-end execution for assigned credits, ensuring high-quality analysis and timely delivery across priorities with clear accountability.
• Own surveillance/updates for assigned portfolio, synthesizing performance, market signals, and peer context into decision-useful insights and clear implications for risk.
• Supporting LLM tools/automation being embedded to accelerate workflows, followed by structured validation and refinement using analytical judgement to maintain trusted conclusions.
• Operate alongside AI agents in recurring workflows.
• Prepare/review inputs, reconcile metrics, document assumptions/changes to ensure adherence to methodologies/standard operating procedures.
• Prepare/review key outputs ensuring clarity and alignment to methodology/sector frameworks and evidentiary standards.
• Support maintenance/review of models to ensure robustness and repeatability and clear linkage to risk views.

Stakeholder & Market Engagement

• Engage with external parties alongside senior team members.
• Crafts client and executive-ready stories that translate complex data, analysis, and research into a clear narrative. Advising on issues within clear parameters, integrating and communicating complex information to convey S&P's analytical expertise and drive engagement with market participants.
• Building trusted stakeholder relationships through emotionally intelligent, collaborative and adaptable delivery.

Risk Management and Operating

• Ensure adherence to methodology/confidentiality/data governance; escalate issues early with options/recommendations to protect integrity and trust.
• Embed responsible, governed AI use: approved tools/data only; protect confidential info.
• Drive controlled automation/agentic workflows by contributing to design requirements/controls, supporting testing/rollout, and training others.
• Supports decisions relating to guardrails for automation: defining what can be automated vs must remain human-led (especially material risk calls and committee conclusions).

Compensation/Benefits Information: ( This section is only applicable to US candidates:) S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $90,000USD to $127,000 USD. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual's geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses, and certifications. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please click here .
What We're Looking For:

• Experience in affordable housing finance, either in loan underwriting, portfolio management, real estate development, or capital raising.
• Familiarity with affordable housing policies, financing structures, and funding programs, including low-income housing tax credits, housing choice vouchers (Section 8), and mortgage revenue bond programs
• Solid foundation in financial statement analysis

Team Contribution & Capability Building

• Ownership/execution maturity across multiple credits; delivers high quality with limited oversight and models values-led behavior.
• Strong collaboration/relationship management; influences through credibility and constructive challenge.
• Coaching capability that improves team consistency through shared standards and tools.
• Continuous improvement mindset.
• AI fluency with judgement.

Core Analytical & Delivery

• Strong credit/financial/risk analysis linking drivers to forward-looking views and risk appetite.
• Practical experience embedding AI/LLMs/agents into workflows to improve productivity and insight.
• Strong analytical tool capability; willingness to learn data/automation tools to facilitate AI-enabled workflows.

Stakeholder & Market Engagement

• Strong synthesis into concise narratives for senior stakeholders/committees with transparent evidence.
• Effective written and verbal communicator, able to present research and analysis in a clear, structured way that supports informed decision making.

Risk Management and Operating

• High standards for quality, traceability, and governance; operates effectively in controlled environments.
• Sound judgement on responsible AI use.
• Ability to contribute to scalable automation/agent workflows.

Additional Information

• An S&P Global employee at this level would typically have three to five years' of relevant work experience.
• Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent required. A master's degree or professional certification (such as CFA) is highly valued. We welcome candidates from traditional finance disciplines as well as diverse academic backgrounds that support innovative and critical thinking.
• Employees are required to work from the office a minimum of two days per week.
• Candidates who reach the final stage of the interview process will be asked to attend at least one in-person interview at their nearest S&P Global Ratings office before an offer can be extended.

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.
For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/ratings
What's In It For You?
Our Mission:
Advancing Essential Intelligence.
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.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We're committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.
Our Values:
Integrity, Discovery, Partnership
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 business. We care about our people. That's why we provide everything you-and your career-need to thrive at S&P Global.
Our benefits include:

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks: It's not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards-small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries
Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:
At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.
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