Graduate Product Analyst Financial Risk Analytics

Graduate Product Analyst – Financial Risk Analytics

Team: Financial Risk Analytics provides products and solutions to financial institutions to measure and manage market risk, counter party credit risk, regulatory risk capital, and derivative valuation adjustments. Using the latest analytics and technology—including a fully vectorized pricing library, machine learning, and a big‑data stack—our products are utilized by the largest tier‑one banks, asset managers, and niche firms.

Financial Risk Analytics is seeking a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and detail‑oriented individual to join our product team in London. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development and support of advanced financial risk solutions and to gain exposure to a wide variety of quantitative and qualitative topics and clients.

• Gain valuable exposure to both buy‑side and sell‑side methodologies as well as a variety of risk models.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the full end‑to‑end product development cycle from design through testing and deployment.
• Collaborate with a global team leveraging cutting‑edge technologies and cloud infrastructure while working with major financial institutions worldwide.

Product analysis and design.

• Research academic and market standards and define potential improvements of methodologies and workflows.
• Research and design functionality, create product feature specifications, and implement proofs‑of‑concept.
• Propose technical solutions to business challenges.

Assist in the execution of the product roadmap.

• Assist in the delivery of new product features, communicating regularly with the product team.
• Coordinate implementation and prepare documentation for new features.
• Coordinate with data/software/financial engineering teams on development, testing, and implementation of new risk models to ensure tight data and analytics integration.
• Develop analytical tools and prototypes for new features prior to implementation.

Support current and prospective clients.

• Support the professional services team with PoCs, client onboarding investigations, and production runs.
• Assist in presenting product capabilities to internal and external stakeholders, gathering feedback and answering questions.

• A bachelor’s degree in a quantitative background such as finance, mathematics, economics, physics, computer science, or other technical subjects.
• Strong curiosity and problem‑solving skills.
• Interest in product design and/or software development.
• Experience using Python, SQL, and/or other programming languages.
• Interest in financial services risk management, quantitative finance, and technology.

Right to Work Requirements:

• This role is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United Kingdom.

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, or any other protected status under 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 our accessibility team and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.