Data Associate

Data Associate

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**:
09 **The Team**:
The S&P Global Ratings Data and Content Management team is a team tasked with unlocking data & delivering content to our analysts and customers. The team acts as the main point of engagement with our customers on projects, including analytical partners, to discover and drive new and enhanced content creation through definitions, lineage, mapping, readiness, and inventory. The team ensures availability of content and its end-to-end completeness and quality for both internal and external use, according to our governance standards, enabling customers to make fast, informed decisions. The team sits within our Technology department, as part of the broader Data Management team, and works in close partnership with many teams throughout the Ratings organization (including strategic operations, technology, analytical, commercial, etc.) and cross-divisionally with CRISIL and Market Intelligence.

**The Impact**:
You will be a Data Associate with the Governments Data and Content Management team and will serve as the primary point of contact for "all things content" related to your team across a broad spectrum of stakeholders. You have the opportunity to collaborate with the team responsible for advancing, increasing, and delivering the end-to-end content flow within Governments (US Public Finance, International Public Finance, and Sovereigns), to help drive our analytic capabilities, customer satisfaction, business results and growth.

**Responsibilities**:

- Understand requirements for information from various sources, tools, and documents, to enable clear interpretations of meaning for analysts and clients;
- Support process updates as part of criteria and commercial use case development and lead operationalizing of these processes;
- Understand and be able to make sense of data used for analytical purposes in deriving a rating or an evaluation;
- Have a view of RatingsDirect product and Ratings 360 product and how existing ratings data fits in and how it may enrich current content offerings;
- Partner with data quality to introduce new quality measurements for establishing content "fit for use";
- Working with business stakeholders, data visualization and reporting specialists to determine analytics data consumption mechanisms;
- Interact with internal and external clients as necessary;
- Thorough knowledge of business and data and content organization role in the value stream to support business value;
- Undertake data field mapping and support maintenance of data dictionary;
- Approach platform in a client-centric manner with suggestions that could lead to enhancements.

**Qualifications**
- At least 2 years of data governance or data management experience with technical skills required (e.g. data querying, data analysis, data visualization)
- Intermediate SQL skills + MS Excel
- Experience with Databricks
- Financial data knowledge preferred
- Familiarity with database architecture and ability to manipulate large datasets
- Content product & distribution experience a plus
- Strong influential, negoitation, interpersonal, and communication skills
- Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Agile (scrum) experience a plus
- Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 2+ year of experience

**About S&P Global Ratings**
At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction. By bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, we enable growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions.
S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world's foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world's leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.

**What's In It For**You?**

**Our Purpose**:
Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology-the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

**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 beli