Duties and Responsibilities:
You will be a key member of the S&P Global Data Operations team. Reporting into the local Data Ops management team, you will be part of our database maintenance team, that ensures the information we are making public to our clients, is the most up to date and accurate version we have access to.
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- 70% of your time will be spent on the phone, trying to source or validate the information
- Web researching and analyzing information
- Capturing this data into our internal app
- Coming up with innovative solutions in order to keep our processes as efficient as they can be
Job Requirements:
You are detail orientated person, that can make fast decisions based on what you gather through your research process.
Key Qualifications and Skills:
- Excellent verbal and written command of in English and French.
- As this is a calling team, so you must be able to ask probing questions on calls in order to get as much detailed information as possible and should not be easily deterred.
- Ability to establish and maintain relationships
- Must be very detail-oriented and able to capture this information into our internal app using S&P Global research and style guidelines
- Good online research skills and the ability to analyze existing sources of information as well as find new ones.
- Comfortable navigating official registries and experience with data entry is advantageous.
- Must be able to work well under pressure and be flexible to adapt to changes in a fast-paced working environment
- Knowledge of the buy-side or capital markets a plus but not required
Technical Requirements:
- Experience with Microsoft Office suit
- Moderate/Intermediate Excel skills is a plus
- Basic knowledge of Agile and experience with Jira will be advantageous
- You will be required to work from home from time to time, so a minimum Fibre line of 10mbps is a must in order to fully support all our systems
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About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use): 10
Seeking a Financial Sector Economist to provide timely, high-quality quantitative and qualitative research and analysis on banking sector developments and risks in select African countries. The Banking Risk Economist will be able to work largely independently under the supervision of the Banking Risk Service Manager.
General Job Duties:
- Monitor and assess financial risks, emerging trends, and regulatory developments in selected African banking sectors.
- Produce written reports, analyze data, and answer client questions
Specific Job Duties:
- A Successful candidate will be responsible for monitoring financial sector risks, forecast key data series, and assign risk scores for multiple Sub-Saharan African banking sectors
- Independently monitor regional and global financial news on a daily basis, producing short written reports on these developments under tight deadlines
- Write reports that provide clear actionable insights to clients by analyzing recent data trends, summarizing forecasts, and explaining emerging and underlying risks in banking sectors under coverage
- Collect and analyze banking sector data including balance sheet information and financial soundness indicators
- Create models to forecast key banking sector data including balance sheet indicators and financial soundness indicators
- Produce reports and make presentations to internal and external stakeholders on banking sector related developments
Required Experience:
- Strong understanding of historical financial crises; the role, structure, and operations of banking sectors; and macroeconomic theory.
- Strong familiarity with Excel required, familiarity with other statistical programs such as EViews and Python is a plus
- Experience with direct relevance to African countries preferred.
Required Education:
- Bachelor’s degree at a minimum, Master’s or higher degree strongly preferred. The subject area of the final degree should be economics or closely related field with rigorous economics coursework.
- Fluency in English
- Strong writing skills
- Sound knowledge of MS Office applications, especially Excel
- Strong analytical and critical thinking abilities
- Ability to professionally counsel and consult with clients
- Excellent organizational and time-management skills
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About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use): 08
As an Investor Relations Analyst, you will have the opportunity to help drive the growth of a leading Investor Relations surveillance services provider and make an immediate impact on the business and our corporate clients.
Are you an enthusiastic and collaborative team member? Do you enjoy learning and discussing various aspects of the financial markets in a supportive team environment?
We’re looking for an Analyst, within the Investor Relations division to:
- Support clients with intelligence about their institutional investors and what is driving trading in equity markets.
- Provide clients with targeting intelligence on institutional investors in conjunction with their investor relations outreach efforts.
- Develop and maintain relationships with the investor relations and executive teams of publicly traded companies.
- Follow public equity markets and update clients about events affecting individual stocks, specific sectors, and the broader economy.
- Identify leading institutional buyers and sellers of clients’ stocks, and provide insight, color and context around the movements.
- Connect with buy-side institutional portfolio managers and trading desks to gain insights on investment strategy and trading.
- Participate in the growth and improvement of the team’s service offering to clients.
Your team
You will be working within our Investor Relations division focused on our Surveillance and Targeting offerings. The team is located across the globe with offices in New York, Raleigh (North Carolina), Cape Town, Hong Kong, London, Toronto and Buenos Aires.
The Surveillance and Targeting division is broken down into ten sector teams that cover the North American market and two regional teams in APAC and EMEA. Each team is headed up by at least one Director that has over 10 years of financial industry experience with team members of all levels actively contributing to the team’s success. In addition, our division currently offers a flexible work-from-home policy with most analysts working in a hybrid environment.
You have:
- 0-5 years of financial experience or in a related field
- “Dual-threat” skills with both strong quantitative and qualitative talent
- Analytical reasoning ability as well as effective speaking and written communication skills (proficient in the English language)
- Collaborative skill set that allows you to work within a dynamic and inclusive team
- An ability to analyze data and absorb new information in an enthusiastic, fast-paced environment
- Comfort with Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint; experience with S&P Cap IQ Pro a plus
- Demonstrated interest and understanding of capital markets
- Aptitude to learn internal proprietary applications
- Detail-oriented; able to multi-task; strong organizational and time management skills
- Comfortable in client-facing situations
- Resourceful and not afraid to ask questions
- Undergraduate degree in a financial or quantitative-related discipline, focus on data analytics a plus
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