Associate Director - Structured Finance Ratings, Esoteric Assets, New York, Denver, or Toronto

S&P Global
New York, Colorado, Toronto
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 110,000 - 193,000 annuallyFunction: Finance & AccountingExperience: 5-10 yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Critical thinking","Communication","Collaboration","Coaching","Risk management"]

Lead end-to-end analytical execution for structured finance esoteric assets, delivering independent credit opinions for new issues and ongoing surveillance. You’ll perform cash-flow and collateral-pool analysis, reconcile inputs and models, and translate complex results into executive-ready narratives for issuers, investors, and market participants. Serve as a senior reference point by coaching teams, improving playbooks/SOPs, and embedding responsible GenAI/LLM and agentic workflows with strong governance, controls, and quality standards.

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Associate Director - Structured Finance Ratings, Esoteric Assets, New York, Denver, or Toronto

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Job Summary

Lead end-to-end analytical execution for structured finance esoteric assets, delivering independent credit opinions for new issues and ongoing surveillance. You’ll perform cash-flow and collateral-pool analysis, reconcile inputs and models, and translate complex results into executive-ready narratives for issuers, investors, and market participants. Serve as a senior reference point by coaching teams, improving playbooks/SOPs, and embedding responsible GenAI/LLM and agentic workflows with strong governance, controls, and quality standards.
Location: New York, Colorado, Toronto
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Finance & Accounting
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Act as a senior reference point, coaching research assistants and analysts on credit fundamentals, modeling discipline, data quality, and standard work including responsible AI use with governance.
  • •Coordinate work across credits by anticipating capacity/quality risks and influencing outcomes through planning and constructive challenge.
  • •Deliver end-to-end analytical execution for a defined portfolio with consistently high standards for quality, timeliness, and clarity.
  • •Lead surveillance and analytical updates, connecting performance, market developments, and issuer peers to forward-looking risk themes.
  • •Synthesize analysis into executive-ready, market-facing narratives and provide trusted advice that influences decisions, while ensuring adherence to methodology and confidentiality/data governance requirements.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 110,000 - 193,000 annually
Perks:Health InsurancePaid LeaveLearning BudgetRetirement

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree or equivalent is required.
  • •Typically 5 to 10 years of relevant work experience at this level.
  • •Complete the end-to-end ratings process for new issues and surveillance transactions.
  • •Perform cash flow and credit analysis for non-traditional assets, including reviewing collateral pools and reconciling third-party model outputs.
  • •Demonstrate strong knowledge of ratings criteria and cash-flow analysis, with practical fluency embedding GenAI/LLMs and agentic workflows under disciplined validation and governance.
Experience:5-10 yearsCredit ratingsStructured financeABSSecuritizationsFintech
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Critical thinkingCommunicationCollaborationCoachingRisk management
Certifications:CFA
Tech Stack:GenAILLMsAI agentsPrompt librariesUAT

Company Brief

S&P Global
Provides financial information, analytics, benchmarks, and credit ratings to markets and institutions worldwide, offering data, research, indices, and risk assessment tools across the financial services and commodities sectors.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 1917
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