Senior Analyst - Sovereign Ratings, New York

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

11

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 successful candidate will join the S&P Global Ratings’ Sovereign and International Public Finance (IPF) ratings team and work closely with the Chief Analytical Officer, Head of Sovereign and Multilateral Institutions Ratings, the Sector Leads and Chairs of the Global, Sovereign and regional IPF “Analytical Oversight and Consistency Councils” (AOCCs). The team manages high-profile government and public sector related credits, including multilateral financial institutions.

It assigns and monitors ratings, maintains high-quality analytical work, communicates with the market and stakeholders, and ensures the consistency of ratings across different asset classes in the practice. The team has a strong collegial, collaborative environment, and the position will provide exposure to senior stakeholders globally.

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.

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:

• Joininga 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’recommitted 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.

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 automationsthatfree 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…