S&P Global Ratings jobs - Sr Data Associate- APAC

Segment : S&P Global Ratings

The Role : Senior Data Associate – APAC

Grade : (relevant for internal applicants only) 10A

Location : Mumbai/Pune

The Team

The S&P Global Ratings Data and Content Management team is a new team tasked with unlocking data & delivering content to our analysts and customers. The team acts as the main point of engagement with our customers on projects, including analytical partners, to discover and drive new and enhanced content creation through definitions, lineage, mapping, readiness, and inventory. The team ensures availability of content and its end-to-end completeness and quality for both internal and external use, according to our governance standards, enabling customers to make fast, informed decisions. The team sits within our Operating Office, as part of the broader Data & Content team, and works in close partnership with many teams throughout the Ratings organization (including strategic operations, technology, analytical, commercial, etc.) and cross-divisional with CRISIL and Market Intelligence.

The Impact

You will be a Senior Data Associate with the APAC Data and Content Management team and will serve as the primary point of contact for “all things content” related to your team across a broad spectrum of stakeholders. You have the opportunity to collaborate with the team responsible for advancing, increasing, and delivering the end-to-end content flow within Structured Finance, Corporate, Financial institutions (FI) and Sov/IPF to help drive our analytic capabilities, customer satisfaction, business results and growth.

Responsibilities

• Work Closely with team members based in Beijing, Melbourne and Japan office and liaising with members of the analytical team, commercial team in Hong Kong , Singapore and Pacific regarding data sourcing, interpretation and adjustment related issues.
• Pursues professional growth and provides developmental opportunities for others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; delegating tasks and decisions; fostering open dialogue amongst departments;
  

Perform tasks supporting the translation of business requirements; determining data and information needs;

• Partner with Analytical, Commercial, Methodologies, SIO and Ratings Technology teams globally to create data readiness of Structured Finance, Corporate, Financial institutions (FI) and Sov/IPF dataset;
• Understand the road map of RatingsDirect product and Ratings 360 product and how existing ratings data fits in and how it may enrich current content offerings;
• Ensure your team works in tight coordination with the Ratings Technology team, to ensure project deliverable are on-time and commensurate with requirements;
• Interact with internal and external clients as necessary;
• Working with business stakeholders, data visualization and reporting specialists and/or data scientists to determine analytics data consumption mechanisms;
• Help develop data inventory by being knowledgeable about practice analytical data;
• Undertake data field mapping; support maintenance of data dictionary; Understand and maintains global Structured Finance mnemonic dictionary;
• Support impact analysis development in an SME consulting role; i.e. a holistic view of impact across the data ecosystem on Data, Applications, Systems, Operational teams changes either through projects, enhancements, vendor changes;
• Allow for interpretation of data analyses by reviewing the application of findings to contextual settings.
  

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of data governance or data management experience with technical skills required (e.g. data querying, data analysis)
• Intermediate-advanced Python, SQL and MS Excel skills with VBA preferred
• Financial data knowledge, with direct experience within Structured Finance, Corporate, Financial institutions (FI) and Sov/IPF preferred
• Knowledge of Criteria and Models is plus
• Proven track record of execution, particularly in content-related domain
• Content product & distribution experience a plus
• Strong influential, negotiation, interpersonal, and communication skills
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Agile (scrum) experience a plus
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required