S&P Global RatingsCREDitProgram Analyst, London

spgi; Greater London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

S&P Global Ratings offers a two-year CREDit Graduate Program designed to immerse you in independent credit risk research and benchmarks. You will join a team responsible for high-quality fundamental research, engage with senior executives, and interact with the global investor community.

All analysts complete a relevant qualification such as MBA or CFA. The program emphasizes governance, data reliability, and the use of AI-enabled tools alongside rigorous human validation, with rotation across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
• Analysts complete a relevant qualification (e.g., MBA or CFA).

Responsibilities

• Build capability in credit, financial data, and tooling by applying feedback quickly and adopting standard ways of working.
• Contribute to AI-enabled team productivity by sharing reusable prompts, templates, checklists, and lightweight automations that augment team judgement.
• Actively champion innovation and continuous improvement by questioning existing processes and applying fresh perspectives to data and problem-solving.
• Partner with analysts and managers to deliver reliable execution, including clear status updates, early escalation of risks, and consistent follow-through to protect quality and trust.
• Collect, clean, reconcile, and validate data; identify inconsistencies, assess assumptions, and catch risks.

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use): 09 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're committed 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.

Program Overview:

When you join S&P Global Ratings, you join one of the world's leading providers of independent credit risk research and benchmarks. You are part of a team that produces high quality fundamental research and ratings based on established criteria and benchmarks. This presents the opportunity for CREDit Program Analysts to be at the center of how investment decisions are made. You will have exposure to ask probing questions to senior corporate executives, and interact with the global investor community for one of the largest providers of credit ratings in the world. The Business Practice Groups include: Corporates, Public Finance, Financial Institutions, Structured Finance, Sovereign and International Public Finance, and Infrastructure.

Our CREDit Graduate Program is a two-year training and development opportunity, with our next intake joining us in September 2027. CREDit Program Analysts will work across various practices and teams to meet the evolving demands of the global market and business needs. This multi-disciplinary approach allows you to cultivate a versatile skill set while contributing to our most impactful business areas. All analysts combine practical work experience with the completion of a relevant qualification. For example, this could be an MBA or CFA.

Responsibilities:

Team Contribution & Capability Building

Build capability in credit, financial data, and tooling by applying feedback quickly and adopting standard ways of working that reinforce consistent, decision-ready outputs.

Contribute to AI-enabled team productivity by sharing reusable prompts, templates, checklists, and lightweight automations that augment team judgement (not replace it) and reduce rework/improve turnaround time.

Proactively supporting others with strong attention to detail and issue-spotting, and contributing resourceful, creative ideas in collaborative team discussions.

Actively champion innovation and continuous improvement by questioning existing processes, leveraging new tools, and applying fresh perspectives to data and problem-solving.

Core Analytical & Delivery

Partner with analysts and managers to deliver reliable execution, including clear status updates, early escalation of risks, and consistent follow-through to protect quality and trust.

Support and help maintain high-quality research and data packs using standard templates; use automation where appropriate to improve consistency while keeping human review of key facts.

Use approved LLM-powered tools as an enabler to accelerate research/summarization/first drafts, followed by human validation, correction, and explicit evidence capture.

Support analysts with recurring monitoring workflows by contributing to process efficiency/projects.

Collect, clean, reconcile, and validate data. Proactively identify inconsistencies, assess assumptions, and catch risks.

Support financial model maintenance.

Stakeholder & Market Engagement

Monitor issuer, sector, and market developments and produce concise summaries with clear sourcing that help analysts move faster.

Turns data, analysis, and research into clear, actionable narratives for client and market engagement.

Understand the importance of cultivating a customer-oriented, solutions mindset and observe and learn from service excellence in action.

Risk Management and Operating

Apply confidentiality, documentation, and governance requirements.

Support pilot/testing under supervision and within defined guardrails.

What We're Looking For:

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent,