Associate Director – EMEA Corporates (Emerging Markets), London

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use): 12 About the Role S&P Global Ratings' EMEA Corporates practice delivers independent credit opinions across a wide range of industries and geographies. Within this practice, the Emerging Markets team provides credit analysis and ratings for over 90 companies across high-growth regions including Central Asia, Ütürkiye, the Caucasus, and Africa, spanning sectors such as commodities, energy, telecommunications, transportation, and consumer goods. As emerging market issuers become increasingly integrated into global capital markets, this team plays a central role in providing rigorous, transparent credit perspectives on fast-evolving business models and dynamic macroeconomic conditions.

What You'll Do Impact

In this role, you will contribute to independent credit opinions that global markets rely on. You will shape S&P Global's analytical perspective on emerging market corporates, develop the next generation of analysts, and lead the responsible adoption of AI-enabled workflows — all while upholding the quality, accountability, and integrity that define S&P Global Ratings.

Responsibilities

Team Contribution & Capability Building

Serve as a senior reference point for junior analysts, coaching on credit fundamentals, financial modeling, data quality, and responsible use of AI tools; coordinate work across the portfolio and proactively manage capacity and quality risks. Drive continuous improvement by refining analytical playbooks and standard processes; partner with stakeholders to support the responsible rollout of new capabilities with appropriate governance and controls.

Core Analytical & Delivery

Execute end-to-end credit analysis across a defined portfolio, maintaining consistently high standards of quality, timeliness, and analytical clarity. Lead surveillance and analytical updates, connecting issuer performance and market developments to forward-looking risk themes. Use approved generative AI tools to accelerate research, drafting, and peer comparisons, while maintaining rigorous input validation, metric reconciliation, and documentation of analytical assumptions.

Stakeholder & Market Engagement

Translate complex data and analysis into clear, market-facing narratives that communicate S&P Global's independent viewpoint to issuers, investors, and senior market participants. Contribute to thought leadership by researching, drafting, and refining market-facing content with senior team input.

Risk Management & Operations

Maintain adherence to methodology, confidentiality, and data governance requirements; elevate emerging risks promptly and embed responsible AI practices into day-to-day workflows. Support the safe, monitored scaling of automation to remove low-value tasks, defining requirements and controls in partnership with relevant technical teams.

What We're Looking For

Required Skills and Experience

Demonstrated financial analysis skills, including cash flow modeling, complex capital structure and debt instrument analysis, ratio and covenant analysis, and accounting fundamentals. Knowledge of emerging markets and a clear understanding of how global macroeconomic trends affect corporate business models. Effective written and verbal communication skills for committee-ready documentation and senior-level engagement with issuers, investors, and market participants. Proven experience coaching or mentoring junior analysts, with a track record of raising analytical quality through structured feedback and review. Russian: Fluent (able to conduct meetings, collaborate effectively, and communicate clearly in writing and verbally) — Required, as a portion of the credit portfolio operates in jurisdictions where Russian is the primary business language.

Preferred or Helpful Experience

Experience integrating generative AI or large language model tools into analytical workflows, paired with disciplined governance, validation, and responsible use practices. Familiarity with data or automation tools relevant to credit analysis, including the ability to support testing and adoption of new capabilities. Strong understanding of the financial services environment and the ability to connect market developments to emerging risk themes. Evidence of simplifying or improving processes through standardization, tooling, or automation.

Education:

We require a bachelor's degree or equivalent. 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.

Additional Information

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. Employees are required to work from the office a minimum of two days per week.

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

What's In It For You?

Our Mission: Advancing Essential Intelligence. 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. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That's why we provide everything you— and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global. Our benefits include: 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: It's not just about you. S&P Global has 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. For more information on benefits by country visit:

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At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets. S&P Global has a Securities Disclosure and Trading Policy (“the Policy”) that seeks to mitigate conflicts of interest by monitoring and placing restrictions on personal securities holding and trading. The Policy is designed to promote compliance with global regulations. In some Divisions, pursuant to the Policy’s requirements, candidates at S&P Global may be asked to disclose securities holdings. Some roles may include a trading prohibition and remediation of positions when there is an effective or potential conflict of interest. Employment at S&P Global is contingent upon compliance with the Policy.

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