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S&P Global Associate Director - IFR Latam in Buenos Aires, Argentina
About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use):
12
The Role: Associate Director, Infrastructure Latin America - S&P Global Ratings
Grade ( relevant for internal applicants only ): 12
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 as set 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:
The Associate Director undertakes rigorous analytical work and is proficient in conducting research and fundamental credit analysis, analyzing financial statements, working with financial models and forecasts, and writing analytical reports on rated different infrastructure asset classes. The successful candidate is able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment, possess strong interpersonal and communication skills, is customer-oriented, and demonstrates excellent presentation skills. Your responsibilities also include:
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 subject
Solid experience (5+ years) financial analysis experience 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.
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 $103,800 to $206,350. 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.
This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please click here.
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 Purpose:
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Our People:
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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
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at S&P Global:
At S&P Global, we believe diversity fuels creative insights, equity unlocks opportunity, and inclusion drives growth and innovation – Powering Global Markets. Our commitment centers on our global workforce, ensuring that our people are empowered to bring their whole selves to work. It doesn’t stop there, we strive to better reflect and serve the communities in which we live and work, and advocate for greater opportunity for all.
S&P Global has a Securities Disclosure and Trading Policy (“the Policy”) that seeks to mitigate conflicts of interest by monitoring and placing restrictions on personal securities holding and trading. The Policy is designed to promote compliance with global regulations. In some Divisions, pursuant to the Policy’s requirements, candidates at S&P Global may be asked to disclose securities holdings. Some roles may include a trading prohibition and remediation of positions when there is an effective or potential conflict of interest. Employment at S&P Global is contingent upon compliance with the Policy.
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.
If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.
US Candidates Only: The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law.
202 - Middle Professional (EEO Job Group) (inactive), 20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), RATNGS202.2 - Middle Professional Tier II (EEO Job Group)
Job ID: 302923
Posted On: 2024-06-21
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina