Senior Analyst - Infrastructure & Project Finance , New York or Toronto

Grade Level (for internal use): 11

About the Role

The Credit Ratings team 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 Infrastructure & Project Finance practice provides credit analysis on essential, long-lived assets and ring-fenced project financings—assessing contractual frameworks, demand and operating risks, sponsor strength, financial flexibility, and resilience under stress. The team’s work supports capital formation for critical infrastructure and helps the market understand fast-evolving subsectors such as data centres and digital infrastructure.

The North American Regulated Utilities team covers a portfolio of Investor-Owned Utility companies, including large electric utilities such as NextEra, Duke, and Southern Company in the United States and Canada.

Impact

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.

What You Stand to Gain

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:

• Joining a 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’re committed 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.

Responsibilities

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 automations that free 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.
• Support LLM tools/automation being embedded to accelerate workflows, followed by structured validation and refinement using analytical judgement to maintain trusted conclusions.
• Operate alongside AI agents in recurring workflows. Prepare/review inputs, reconcile metrics, document assumptions/changes to ensure adherence to methodologies/standard operating procedures.
• Prepare/review key outputs ensuring clarity and alignment to methodology/sector frameworks and evidentiary standards.
• Support maintenance/review of models to ensure robustness and repeatability and clear linkage to risk views.

Stakeholder & Market Engagement

• Engage with external parties alongside senior team members. Craft client and executive-ready stories that translate complex data, analysis, and research into a clear narrative.
• Advise on issues within clear parameters, integrating and communicating complex information to convey S&P’s analytical expertise and drive engagement with market participants.
• Build trusted stakeholder relationships through emotionally intelligent, collaborative, and adaptable delivery.

Risk Management and Operating

• Ensure adherence to methodology/confidentiality/data governance; escalate issues early with options/recommendations to protect integrity and trust.
• Embed responsible, governed AI use: approved tools/data only; protect confidential info.
• Drive controlled automation/agentic workflows by contributing to design requirements/controls, supporting testing/rollout, and training others.
• Support decisions relating to guardrails for automation: defining what can be automated vs must remain human-led (especially material risk calls and committee conclusions).

Requirements

What We’re Looking For

• Energy or infrastructure background with an understanding of credit analysis gained in transactional, analytical, or credit roles.
• Willingness to rapidly pivot into different sectors to meet client needs and analytical needs across the practice.

Team Contribution & Capability Building

• Ownership/execution maturity across multiple credits; delivers high quality with limited oversight and models values-led behavior.
• Strong collaboration/relationship management; influences through credibility and constructive challenge.
• Coaching capability that improves team consistency through shared standards and tools.
• Continuous improvement mindset.
• AI fluency with judgement.

Core Analytical & Delivery

• Strong credit/financial/risk analysis linking drivers to forward-looking views and risk appetite.
• Practical experience embedding AI/LLMs/agents into workflows to improve productivity and insight.
• Strong analytical tool capability; willingness to learn data/automation tools to facilitate AI-enabled workflows.

Stakeholder & Market Engagement

• Strong synthesis into concise narratives for senior stakeholders/committees with transparent evidence.
• Effective written and verbal communicator, able to present research and analysis in a clear, structured way that supports informed decision making.

Risk Management and Operating

• High standards for quality, traceability, and governance; operates effectively in controlled environments.
• Sound judgement on responsible AI use.
• Ability to contribute to scalable automation/agent workflows.

Additional Information

• An S&P Global employee at this level would typically have three to five years’ of relevant work experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required. A master’s degree or professional certification (such as CFA) is highly valued.
• We welcome candidates from traditional finance disciplines as well as diverse academic backgrounds that support innovative and critical thinking.
• Employees are required to work from the office a minimum of two days per week.
• Candidates who reach the final stage of the interview process will be asked to attend at least one in-person interview at their nearest S&P Global Ratings office before an offer can be extended.

Pay

For US candidates: The anticipated base salary range for this position is $112,000 USD to $153,000 USD. Final base salary will be based on the individual’s geographic location, experience level, skill set, training, licenses, and certifications. This role is also eligible for an annual incentive plan.

For Canadian candidates: The anticipated range of compensation for this position is 94,000 CAD to 133,000 CAD. Final compensation will be based on the individual’s performance, geographic location, experience level, skill set, training, licenses, and certifications. In accordance with Ontario's new regulations effective January 1, 2026, this job posting provides information on expected compensation.

Benefits

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks: Perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in-class benefits for families.
• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.