S&P Global Ratings - Ratings Analytical Internship - Sovereign/ international public finance

The Impact:

The position offers an exciting mix of responsibilities for someone with a keen interest in supporting the analytical team in financial analysis and public finance, as well as opportunities to acquire and develop new skills. It offers interaction with S&P analysts in EMEA and globally. Tasks include research duties (develop and maintain a centralized sources of information), working on specific research projects (ad hoc projects, industry monitoring), spreadsheet and database duties (collect and maintain information and data for keeping databases updated) and publishing support.

What you stand to gain:  

• You will be offered the opportunity to assist S&P Global in achieving its mission of being one of the leading providers of the highest quality risk evaluations and analytical information to the world’s financial markets. 

• You will work with junior and senior analysts within S&P Global and senior management of issuing entities through the ratings process (including ratings committees and management meetings). The successful candidate will support rating analysts in their analytical work, primarily on local and regional governments and government-related entities in France, but also in other European countries, and occasionally on sovereigns or supranationals.

• You will be trained by the Sovereign and International Public Finance team members to familiarize yourself with our analytics, rating criteria, processes, systems and databases, and corporate policies.

• At the end of our internship program feedback is provided, which could lead to an offer of a place on our next year’s CREDit graduate program. To get a sense of what our graduate program entails, please see a video here providing an overview of one of our current CREDit graduate’s experience. Laura made this video in conjunction with her university; IE University. 

Responsibilities:  

• Learn and understand ratings criteria and methodology 

• Assist with preparing required documents for rating committee and issuer management meetings 

• Provide timely and accurate financial statistics and data analysis 

• Assist in reporting, research, presentations and modelling 

• Support the team on improvement in execution and ad-hoc writing projects

• All employees are required to work from the office a minimum of 2 days per week.

• We require all candidates who reach the final stage of our interview process to attend at least one in-person interview, which is ordinarily at your nearest S&P Global Ratings office. This must be completed before we can proceed to an offer.

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.