Research Assistant

Description:

The Credit Estimates team is a close knit team of analysts predominantly based out of Toronto and New York but also with analysts in Latin America, Europe and Asia. The team works very closely to serve the critical middle market CLO constituency and other smaller leveraged loan issuers. Our global team has a fast-paced work flow and we need to communicate seamlessly and collegially across groups. The interactions are largely internal, though there are several opportunities to speak with CLO Managers explaining our CE rationale and our methodology Our team serves as one of the best training grounds for learning credit analysis and how S&P performs its analytical function

The Impact:
The analyses you produce will be used by other S&P teams to rate Collateralized Loan Obligations, and by our clients to evaluate the credit quality of their overall loan portfolios.

CLO Investors and Managers rely on our evaluation of middle market companies. Although our credit opinions are not publicly disclosed, they have a tremendous impact not only on the credit quality of the CLOs we rate but also on the ability of small businesses to borrow from an important segment of the financial markets.
As a Credit Estimate Research assistant you will analyze companies across a variety of sectors and you will learn the most important determinants of credit quality for small and medium sized companies.