Research Associate I

Research Associate I (Campus Hiring)

**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**
**Basic Qualifications**:

- Education
- Post Graduates - MBA, M.Com, CFA L1 preferred
- Graduate with CFA L2 cleared
- Experience - 0-2 years
- 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.

**About S&P Global Market Intelligence**

At S&P Global Market Intelligence, a division of S&P Global we understand the importance of accurate, deep and insightful information. Our team of experts delivers unrivaled insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction.

**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 belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

**Our Values**:
**Integrity, Discovery, Partnership**

At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. 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 custo