Data Associate – Structured Finance Jobs in Mumbai - S&P Global Ratings

Segment : S&P Global Ratings
Location : Mumbai/Pune
The Role :Data Associate – Structured Finance
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 Data Associate with the Structured Finance Data and Content Management team will serve as a point of contact for “all things content” related to your team across a broad spectrum of stakeholders. Data Associates are critical to capture and disseminate our S&P Global Ratings data and content for analytical use and external customers.
Responsibilities

• Understand requirements for information from various sources, tools, and documents, to enable clear interpretations of meaning for analysts and clients;
• Support process updates as part of criteria and commercial use case development and lead operationalizion of these processes;
• Understand and be able to make sense of data used for analytical purposes in deriving a rating or an evaluation;
• Have a view of RatingsDirect product and Ratings 360 product and how existing ratings data fits in and how it may enrich current content offerings;
• Partner with data quality to introduce new quality measurements for establishing content “fit for use”;
• Working with business stakeholders, data visualization and reporting specialists and/or data scientists to determine analytics data consumption mechanisms;
• Interact with internal and external clients as necessary;
• Thorough knowledge of business and data and content organization role in the data value stream in support of business value;
• Undertake data field mapping and support maintenance of data dictionary;
• Approach platform in a client-centric manner with suggestions that could lead to enhancements.
  

Basic Qualifications

• At least 2 years of Structured Finance or data management experience with technical skills required (e.g. data querying, data analysis)
• Intermediate SQL skills, Intermediate MS Excel skills with VBA preferred
• Familiarity with database architecture and ability to manipulate large data sets
• Strong interpersonal skills with exceptional time management.
• Ability to work with little supervision and develop a process from the bottom up
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Agile (scrum) experience a plus
• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 2+ years of experience