Overview
Associate Director - Esoteric ABS Structured Finance Ratings at S&P Global Ratings. The team provides credit ratings and opinions for securitizations backed by a wide variety of nontraditional assets. The Associate Director will be responsible for end-to-end rating process, research, cash flow, credit, and structural analytics, and client-facing activities for new issue ratings and surveillance of Non-traditional ABS transactions.
Responsibilities
- Complete the end-to-end ratings process for new issue and surveillance transactions.
- Perform cash flow analysis, synthesize results, and present findings in committees for non-traditional assets, including transportation ABS, private equity, triple NNN, data centers, time-share, whole business.
- Analyze credit, cash flow, and performance characteristics of collateral pools. Review third-party model output and reconcile with cash flow results from internal models.
- Review legal and operating documents to ensure consistency with criteria and identify issues with the transaction structure. Provide comments to external parties.
- Actively manage relationships with internal and external clients.
- Demonstrate strong knowledge of ratings criteria and cash flow analysis and be able to handle clients’ analytical questions.
- Actively contribute to training and outreach efforts, including the completion of timely commentaries, podcasts, and webinars.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- Undergraduate or Graduate degree; a master’s degree in financial engineering is a decisive asset.
- At least five (5) years of relevant work experience, preferably within a Structured Finance Ratings capacity; prior work with Esoteric ABS or novel assets classes and prior legal ratings experience is a plus.
- Strong proficiency with Excel, Word, PowerPoint
- Experience with cash flow modelling for non-traditional assets
- Understanding of financial markets
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Excellent research skills
- Ability to analyze and solve non-routine problems with ingenuity
- Project management skills
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and tight deadlines under time pressure
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work well in a collaborative team
- Diligent and intellectually curious self-starter with a strong work ethic
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of cash flow modelling and programming languages (e.g. C++, MATLAB, Python, R or VBA)
- Strong Excel skills
- Proven research, verbal, and written communication skills
Locations
New York, NY | Chicago, IL | Englewood, CO | Toronto, Canada
About S&P Global Ratings
At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide essential insights that translate complexity into clarity for market participants to uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction.
S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is a leading provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions.
EEO and Compliance
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