About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

14

The Opportunity

The Private Markets Analytical Officer is a dynamic, strategic leader reporting to the Chief Analytical Officer for Structured Finance & Private Markets. This critical role is responsible for developing and executing the company strategy to establish S&P Global Ratings as the premier provider of ratings, insights, and expertise in the rapidly evolving private markets landscape. As a Grade 14 leader, this individual will set a clear and inspiring vision aligned to enterprise and divisional strategy, motivating teams and stakeholders to achieve long-term objectives. 

The Impact

As a senior leader and spokesperson, the role will help shape the future of our private markets franchise and ensure our team delivers ratings, insights, and expertise that meet evolving client and market needs. The Private Markets Analytical Officer will be responsible for the direction, quality, and delivery of a significant analytical agenda, including strategic decisions on priorities and resource deployment to achieve key outcomes. While also collaborating across S&P Global divisions, particularly Market Intelligence and S&P Dow Jones Indices, the role will strengthen enterprise-wide alignment through shared objectives, consistent messaging, and integrated market perspectives. 

What You Stand to Gain

We are People Forward. When you join S&P Global, you will benefit from:

• Joining a diverse community where your growth and well-being come first.

• Bringing your best self to work in an environment that values inclusion, collaboration, and authentic engagement.

• Celebrating your achievements with us, as we are 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.

Key Responsibilities

Analytical Excellence

• Work with the Chief Analytical Officers, Practices, and Methodology teams to assess complex and novel private market transactions and develop analytical approaches for evaluating esoteric risks, with a particular focus on corporate and infrastructure risks.

• Lead or contribute to highly visible, multidisciplinary initiatives across the organization, ensuring that analytical approaches are aligned with broader Ratings priorities and enterprise strategy. 

• Actively engage with market participants to support ratings transparency and educational objectives on private market trends, structures, and transactions.

• Engage proactively with Insights teams globally to ensure consistency and transparency in our approach to private markets developments, while building detailed knowledge of cross-practice methodologies, structures, and markets.

• Uphold high standards for analytical quality, data consistency, and methodological discipline across private markets activity.

Strategic Thought Leadership

• Help shape the firm’s perspective on key market trends, risks, and structural developments across private credit and adjacent asset classes.

• Bring new thinking, curiosity, and a long-term perspective to private markets analysis, identifying opportunities for growth, innovation, and stronger market understanding. 

• Identify gaps and opportunities in market understanding and work with research teams to produce insightful and timely thought leadership pieces.

• Establish and maintain a consistent, compelling ratings narrative for clients, regulators, and market participants.

• Translate evolving private markets themes into clear analytical views that reinforce S&P Global Ratings’ position as a trusted voice in credit markets.

Market Engagement

• Elevate S&P Global Ratings’ profile through high-impact research, viewpoints, and market insights.

• Act as a senior spokesperson with key external stakeholders, including regulators, central banks, industry associations, and media.

• Translate complex market content into accessible, externally relevant insights that influence market dialogue.

• Communicate complex ideas across functions, levels, and external audiences, with the ability to negotiate effectively and agree on solutions.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Foster strong partnerships across GARM, the analytical teams, and other S&P Ratings teams.

• Ensure alignment on market perspectives, data standards, and methodological consistency.

• Influence senior stakeholders across a matrixed organization to align-on priorities and perspectives, while inviting diverse viewpoints to shape solutions and build stronger outcomes. 

• Effectively manage multiple key projects, conflicting priorities, and unexpected changes through clear prioritization and appropriate delegation. 

• Assess and respond appropriately to challenging or sensitive situations, fostering trust, inclusivity, and credibility with internal and external stakeholders. 

• Coach, develop, and empower team members and colleagues to maximize performance and strengthen analytical capability. 

Compensation/Benefits Information

This section is only applicable to US candidates: S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $210,000 USD to $291,000 USD. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses, and certifications. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please refer to the S&P Global benefits information.

What We’re Looking For:

Qualifications:

• An S&P Global employee at this level would typically have 15+ years of extensive experience in private markets, private credit, credit ratings, structured finance, corporate credit, infrastructure finance, or a related analytical field.

• Possess a deep understanding of private markets dynamics across regions and asset classes, along with demonstrated experience in thought leadership, research, or market insight development.

• Bring strong analytical credibility and the ability to develop authoritative market perspectives, as well as strong capability in structuring and improving data quality, consistency, and analytical usability.

• Proven experience leading and developing small, high-performing analytical teams, with a focus on delivering thought leadership outputs and strengthening data quality, consistency, and analytical capability.

• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and operate effectively in a matrixed organization, as well as excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex analytical topics into clear and compelling narratives.

• Bachelor’s degree required.

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

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or CFA designation is preferred.

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

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.

Our Values:

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

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: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:

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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Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.  Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.  

 

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: [email protected] and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.  
 
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