The Team:

As a Senior Analyst on the Americas Public Finance (Midwest Local Government), the role will lead credit analysis for counties, municipalities, and school districts in Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Key responsibilities include meeting with issuers, assessing historical and projected data, and translating findings into clear, thorough committee presentations and written analysis. The role may also involve moderately complex analytical and deal-specific situations, supporting client needs, participating in investor calls with more senior analysts, and contributing to research for publications or special projects. As the career progresses, the role may include opportunities to present at conferences, support and author opinion pieces, or engage with the media. 

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.  

• Supporting 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. 

• Crafts client and executive-ready stories that translate complex data, analysis, and research into a clear narrative. Advising on issues within clear parameters, integrating and communicating complex information to convey S&P’s analytical expertise and drive engagement with market participants.  

• Building 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.  

• Supports decisions relating to guardrails for automation: defining what can be automated vs must remain human-led (especially material risk calls and committee conclusions). 

Compensation / Benefits Information 
S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $90,000 to $127,000 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 visit spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries. 

What We’re Looking For: 

• Strong understanding of municipal finance, including general fund operations, capital planning, and debt structures   

• Experience with Midwest U.S. local government markets and regional economic dynamics  

 Team Contribution & Capability Building  

• Ownership/execution maturity across multiple credits; delivers high quality with limited oversight and models values-ledbehavior. 

• Strong collaboration/relationship management; influences through credibility and constructivechallenge. 

• Coaching capability that improves team consistency through shared standards and tools.

• Continuous improvement mindset. 

• AI fluency with judgement.