Rating Analyst - Financial Institutions (m|f|x) Frankfurt

Join a highly experienced, skilled, and innovative team with a global mindset. We value analytical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Our team is part of the EMEA Sovereign and Financial Services and Structured Finance Group, responsible for surveillance on all EMEA-based Sovereign, International Public Finance, Insurance, Financial Institutions, and Structured Finance ratings.

The Impact
As a Rating Analyst, you will support primary analysts in assessing and reviewing financial institutions within German-speaking, Northern European, and Central and Eastern European markets. Your work ensures high-quality analytic output and client service excellence, contributing to the integrity and accuracy of our ratings.

What You Stand To Gain

• Exposure to a diverse portfolio of financial institutions across Europe.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development within a leading global ratings agency.
• Experience working alongside industry experts in a dynamic and collaborative environment.
• The chance to contribute to thought-leading research and publications.

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

Our People
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Tasks

• Analytical Excellence: Support primary analysts with a portfolio of financial institutions across various European markets.
• Surveillance: Actively participate in review meetings and contribute to sector portfolio reviews.
• Committees: Assist in timely portfolio reviews in line with surveillance standards.
• Publications: Update and publish high-quality rating reports and co-author thought-leading research.
• Customer Service: Provide client service excellence and coordinate with group analysts for reviews.
• Organisational Efficiency: Support analysts in efficient surveillance; on-the-job training is fundamental.
• Innovation: Integrate dynamic parameters of bank analysis into research; promote process improvements.
• Critical Mind: Incorporate AI tool results while maintaining analytical excellence.
• Ratings: Ensure high-level analytic quality for a complex portfolio of credits.
• People: Promote a positive team atmosphere and client service excellence.
• Issuers: Serve as a key contact in day-to-day analytical relationships.

Profile / Your qualification / Your personality

• Strong written and oral communication skills in German and English.
• Degree in a relevant business-related field or equivalent qualifications (e.g., CFA/FRM, Bankfachwirt / Bankbetriebswirt).
• A S&P employee at this level typically has 2-3 years of expertise in financial institutions analysis.
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills and execution mindset.
• Proficient in Excel/Word/PowerPoint and database applications.
• Fluency in other European languages.
• Experience facilitating and leading virtual meetings with senior issuer/industry experts.
• Willingness to travel at short notice.
• Ability to incorporate climate change, tech disruption, and global banking market trends into analysis.

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

That awaits you

Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology–the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

Application

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.

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Contact

Location

Bockenheimer Landstraße 2, D-60306 Frankfurt