S&P Global, Inc

Associate Director - Infrastructure

S&P Global, Inc$120K — $189K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of project or infrastructure finance experience (ratings, banking, advisory, investing, or credit) preferred.
  • Strong understanding of project structures and documentation (e.g., concession agreements, contracts, financing terms).
  • Proficient in financial analysis including cash flow modeling and ratio analysis.
  • High execution maturity across credit portfolio with limited oversight required.
  • Demonstrated strong collaboration and communication skills with an ability to influence.

Responsibilities

  • Coach junior team members on credit fundamentals and modeling discipline.
  • Coordinate across credits, anticipating quality risks and planning effectively.
  • Embed continuous improvement in processes by enhancing playbooks and driving usage.
  • Partner with stakeholders to identify and support high-impact use cases.
  • Foster critical thinking to challenge assumptions and shape strategic insights.
  • Deliver comprehensive analytical execution, maintaining high quality and clarity.
  • Synthesize data into executive-ready narratives, enhancing stakeholder engagement.

Benefits

  • Join a diverse community prioritizing employee growth and well-being.
  • Work in an inclusive environment that values collaboration and engagement.
  • Access continuous learning opportunities including training and career coaching.
  • Engage in community through People Resource Groups that foster awareness and inclusion.
Full Job Description
About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

12

The Team:

Credit Ratings 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 America Infrastructure Project Finance Ratings team provides independent credit analysis and ratings on a growing portfolio of essential infrastructure projects across the U.S. and Canada, including transportation, power, and social infrastructure. The team’s coverage spans a broad range of project finance structures, including PPP/availability-based, contracted-revenue frameworks, and demand-risk assets. Supported by a strong pipeline of new issuance and refinancing activity, the team delivers timely, high-quality analytical execution and contributes to S&P Global Ratings’ high-profile Infrastructure sector coverage through rigorous credit assessment, clear rating rationale, and ongoing surveillance. 

  

The 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’recommitted 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  

  • Act as senior reference point coaching (Research Assistants, Rating Analysts and Senior Analysts) on credit fundamentals, modelling discipline, data quality, and standard work including how to use AI as an enabler with governance.  

  • Coordinate work across credits; anticipate capacity/quality risks; influence outcomes through planning and constructive challenge in ambiguous situations.  

  • Embed continuous improvement into routines by improving playbooks/SOPs/prompt libraries and driving adoption.  

  • Partner with stakeholders to identify and shape high-impact use cases, supporting testing/adoption/rollout with governance, controls, and change management.  

  • Fosters a critical thinking mindset challenging assumptions and the status quo to generate insights that shape market views and strategic decisions. 

  • Model enterprise behaviours: Discovery, Integrity, and Partnership including human-centric leadership alongside AI-enabled change.  

  

Core Analytical & Delivery  

  • Deliver end-to-end analytical execution across a defined portfolio, setting a consistently high bar for quality, timeliness, and clarity to sustain customer trust.  

  • Lead surveillance and analytical updates, connecting performance, market developments, and issuer peers to forward-looking risk themes.  

  • Own the quality of key outputs, ensuring consistency and clarity of reasoning.  

  • Use approved GenAI/LLMs to accelerate research/comparisons/drafting.  

  • Operate effectively alongside AI agents in recurring workflows.  

  • Support the execution of AI-driven projects. 

  • Validate inputs, reconcile metrics, documentassumptions/model changes.

  

Stakeholder & Market Engagement  

  • Synthesizes data, analysis, and research into executive-ready, market-facing narratives that convey S&P’s analytical expertise—leveraging broad market knowledge and detailed analysis to deliver trusted advice that influences decisions.  

  • Builds collaborative stakeholder trust through empathetic communication, differentiates S&P’s market viewpoint, and drives engagement with market participants.  

  • Contribute to strategic initiatives and also thought leadership by researching, drafting, and refining content with senior team input. 

  

Risk Management and Operating  

  • Ensure adherence to methodology/confidentiality/data governance requirements; escalate emerging risks early.  

  • Embed responsible AI use in workflow process.  

  • Drive controlled automation/agentic workflows to remove low-leverage work, defining requirements/controls and partnering with Data/Engineering to scale safely while setting expectations for ongoing monitoring and human oversight. 

  

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 $120,000 USD to $189,000 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 click here.   

Compensation/Benefits Information: (This section is only applicable to Canadian candidates:) S&P Global states that the anticipated range of compensation for this position is 110,000 CAD to 165,000 CAD. Final compensation for this role will be based on the individual’s performance, geographic location, as well as 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. S&P Global will not be utilizing artificial intelligence in our hiring process. Additionally, we are committed to transparency and will inform all interviewed candidates of hiring decisions within 45 days of their interview. This posting is for an existing vacancy, and we encourage you to reach out for further information regarding our hiring practices or any questions you may have. Thank you for considering a career with us! 

 

What We’re Looking For: 

Practice Nuances 

  • Five to seven years of experience in project finance and/or infrastructure finance (ratings, banking, advisory, investing, or credit) strongly preferred. 

  • Strong understanding of infrastructure project structures and documentation (e.g., concession/PPP agreements, EPC and O&M contracts, offtake or availability-payment frameworks, financing terms).

  • Strong financial analysis skills, including cash flowmodeling/interpretation, ratio and covenant analysis, and accounting fundamentals.

  

Team Contribution & Capability Building  

  • Execution maturity across credit portfolio; delivers high quality with limited oversight.  

  • Strong collaboration/communication; influences through credibility and constructive challenge.  

About S&P Global, Inc

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Learn more about S&P Global, Inc
Size
22,850 employees
Market Cap
$107.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.3 billion
Founded
1888
5 Year Trend
+7.9%
Revenue
$7.4 billion
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