Research Associate I

S&P Global, Inc.; Mumbai; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

Flexible Downtime

Continuous Learning

Invest in Your Future

Family Friendly Perks

Beyond the Basics: benefit summaries

Job summary

S&P Global in Mumbai, India, is seeking a candidate to support high-quality financial content from sell-side research. The role emphasizes precise data extraction, understanding various business models, and maintaining consensus estimates across sectors.

The position offers exposure to data extraction tools and cross-functional collaboration, with shifts including night rotations. Education in MBA/M.Com or CFA L1, and CFA L2 for graduates, strengthens candidacy.

Qualifications

• MBA / M.Com or CFA L1 preferred (2026 passouts).
• Graduate with BBA/B.Com/BMS/BAF and CFA L2 cleared.
• Day shift with rotation including night shifts (5 AM to 2 PM, 12 PM to 9 PM and 8 PM to 5 AM).
• Experience in valuation, financial statements, GAAP/Recurring income, ratio analysis.

Responsibilities

• Extract and prepare insightful financial content from sell-side research using a mix of extraction technologies and sector knowledge.
• Analyze diverse business models for publicly listed companies and surface key modeling approaches.
• Conduct thorough data quality checks to ensure accuracy and reliability.
• Collaborate within the team to optimize and enhance data collection processes.
• Communicate findings effectively with stakeholders across the organization.
• Incorporate changes in sell-side models to maintain consensus estimates for companies under a specific sector.
• Highlight errors in models to improve the basic inputs of decision making for the investing community.

Skills

Valuation concepts

Financial analysis

GAAP knowledge

Ratio analysis

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Education

MBA / M.Com

CFA Level I

Job description

About the Role: Grade Level (for internal use): 07

The Team

The team is responsible for creating and delivering high-quality financial content from sell-side research, leveraging both advanced data extraction technologies and domain expertise. The team thrives on collaboration, values precision, and is committed to driving efficiency in the data collection process, ensuring impactful insights for clients.

The Impact

This role plays a critical part in delivering accurate and actionable financial insights, which empower clients to make well-informed investment decisions. By ensuring the highest standards of data quality and reliability, this position strengthens the credibility and usability of our consensus data. It directly contributes to enhancing client satisfaction, driving business success, and maintaining a strong presence in the financial markets.

What’s in it for You

Opportunity to build expertise in understanding sell side models for publicly-listed companies, enhancing your analytical and domain knowledge. Develop a strong understanding of diverse business models and gain sector-specific insights. Exposure to data extraction tools and methodologies. Professional growth through structured learning and cross-functional teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Extract and prepare insightful financial content from sell-side research using a mix of extraction technologies and sector knowledge.
• Analyze diverse business models for publicly listed companies and surface key modeling approaches.
• Conduct thorough data quality checks to ensure accuracy and reliability.
• Collaborate within the team to optimize and enhance data collection processes.
• Communicate findings effectively with stakeholders across the organization.
• Incorporate changes in sell-side models to maintain consensus estimates for companies under a specific sector.
• Highlight errors in models to improve the basic inputs of decision making for the investing community.

What We’re Looking For

• Education: Post Graduates - MBA, M.Com, CFA L1 preferred (2026 passouts)
• Education: Graduate - BBA/B.Com/BMS/BAF with CFA L2 cleared
• Primary Shift - Day Shift but candidate should be willing to work in all shifts on a rotational basis including night shifts i.e 2-3 weeks in a quarter (5 AM to 2 PM, 12 PM to 9 PM and 8 PM to 5 AM)
• Experience in the application of basic concepts like valuation, financial statements, GAAP/Recurring income, ratio analysis.
• Should enjoy breaking down and interpreting financial models of a company to understand the basic building blocks of a company’s business model.
• Demonstrated experience in creating consensus models would be a plus
• Soft Skills: A positive attitude with attention to detail. Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities. Excellent analytical skills and aptitude for critical thinking. Ability to articulate effectively with stakeholders across the organization. An eye for details and the ability to identify errors in modeling based on structured rules and statistics-based tools.

Additional Note

This is not an Equity Research or Financial Modeling job. We neither write research reports nor create sell side models. However, the job provides the opportunity to learn about businesses and financial models from the work of the best and brightest analysts in the world for all listed companies of note. It provides an opportunity to look through the modeling approaches across sectors/industries/business models across geographies and in the process, learn from the best.

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission: Advancing Essential Intelligence. Our People: We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference. For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global

At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.

Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment. If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to:[e-mail] your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.

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S&P Global enables businesses, governments, and individuals with trusted data, expertise and technology to make decisions with conviction. We are Advancing Essential Intelligence through world-leading benchmarks, data, and insights that customers need in order to plan confidently, act decisively, and thrive in a rapidly changing global landscape. From helping our customers assess new investments across the capital and commodities markets to navigating the energy expansion, acceleration of artificial intelligence, and evolution of public and private markets, we enable the world’s leading organizations to unlock opportunities, solve challenges, and plan for tomorrow – today.