About the Role:Grade Level (for internal use): 11
The Role: Data Scientist, Credit Research & Insights
The Team: The Credit Research & Insights team, within S&P Global Ratings Research, provides timely credit research and insight in relation to global credit and rating performance trends. The team generates leading-edge high frequency credit research which is widely used throughout the firm and by external stakeholders.
The Impact: S&P Global Ratings Credit Research & Insights team is looking for an experienced data scientist who will play a crucial role in shaping and managing the team's data-driven research projects. This role serves as the backbone to all the team's data science related projects. The ideal candidate should be highly motivated, goal-oriented and be able to work independently on data science projects. She or he will need to interact with senior analysts and management across the firm as well as senior external parties.
What's in it for you: Opportunity to work on high profile credit research projects and reports, which are extensively read outside the firm.Ability to influence and shape future data driven global research initiatives, using extensive proprietary datasets.Highly visible role with exposure to and engagement with multiple teams and stakeholders across the organization.Opportunity to work with an extensive list of proprietary datasets, as well as external sources, and be the original source of new research initiatives.Exposure to global credit markets including multiple asset classes (corporates, public finance, structured finance, sovereigns).Engagement with external stakeholders.Responsibilities: Organize and analyze large data sets and be able to communicate your findings to senior analysts.Undertake pre-processing of structured and unstructured data.Drive both business decisions and research based on the insights obtained from the data.Be able to use natural language processing to analyze internal and external data.Propose data solutions and strategies to business challenges and opportunities.Assist with improving data efficiencies and processes across the team.Conduct quantitative and qualitative credit research, and various statistical analysis to analyze trends.Monitor and analyze key global market credit trends.Manage Access and Oracle databases, including writing queries.Write commentary to support research observations.Meet rigorous publishing deadlines.Interpret and articulate research report findings for external clients, and internal stakeholders.Stay actively abreast of financial market events and their implications.What We are Looking For: Basic Qualifications: 3-5 years of experience in a data science role.Degree in a highly quantitative field: Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, etc.Proficiency with data mining, knowledge of probability theory and advanced statistical techniques.Experience with regression analysis (beyond linear regression), supervised learning, unsupervised learning or time-series analysis.Experience with scientific scripting languages (Python, R, Matlab).Experience accessing and manipulating data in SQL database environments.Experience presenting to internal and external audiences.Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.Team player with track record of collaboration with cross functional and cross regional teams.Demonstrated ability to self-manage, take initiative, and meet deadlines.Preferred Qualifications: Advanced degree in quantitative field preferred.Prior experience working in a research capacity within financial markets.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.
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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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