Private Markets Analytical Officer

# **About the Role:** **Grade Level (for internal use):** 14 **The Opportunity** The Private Markets Analytical Officer is a dynamic, strategic leader reporting to the Chief Analytical Officer for Structured Finance & Private Markets. This critical role is responsible for developing and executing the company strategy to establish S&P Global Ratings as the premier provider of ratings, insights, and expertise in the rapidly evolving private markets landscape. As a Grade 14 leader, this individual will set a clear and inspiring vision aligned to enterprise and divisional strategy, motivating teams and stakeholders to achieve long-term objectives. **The Impact** As a senior leader and spokesperson, the role will help shape the future of our private markets franchise and ensure our team delivers ratings, insights, and expertise that meet evolving client and market needs. The Private Markets Analytical Officer will be responsible for the direction, quality, and delivery of a significant analytical agenda, including strategic decisions on priorities and resource deployment to achieve key outcomes. While also collaborating across S&P Global divisions, particularly Market Intelligence and S&P Dow Jones Indices, the role will strengthen enterprise-wide alignment through shared objectives, consistent messaging, and integrated market perspectives. **What You Stand to Gain** We are People Forward. When you join S&P Global, you will benefit from: - Joining a diverse community where your growth and well-being come first. - Bringing your best self to work in an environment that values inclusion, collaboration, and authentic engagement. - Celebrating your achievements with us, as we are 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. **Key Responsibilities** **Analytical Excellence** - Work with the Chief Analytical Officers, Practices, and Methodology teams to assess complex and novel private market transactions and develop analytical approaches for evaluating esoteric risks, with a particular focus on corporate and infrastructure risks. - Lead or contribute to highly visible, multidisciplinary initiatives across the organization, ensuring that analytical approaches are aligned with broader Ratings priorities and enterprise strategy. - Actively engage with market participants to support ratings transparency and educational objectives on private market trends, structures, and transactions. - Engage proactively with Insights teams globally to ensure consistency and transparency in our approach to private markets developments, while building detailed knowledge of cross-practice methodologies, structures, and markets. - Uphold high standards for analytical quality, data consistency, and methodological discipline across private markets activity. **Strategic Thought Leadership** - Help shape the firm’s perspective on key market trends, risks, and structural developments across private credit and adjacent asset classes. - Bring new thinking, curiosity, and a long-term perspective to private markets analysis, identifying opportunities for growth, innovation, and stronger market understanding. - Identify gaps and opportunities in market understanding and work with research teams to produce insightful and timely thought leadership pieces. - Establish and maintain a consistent, compelling ratings narrative for clients, regulators, and market participants. - Translate evolving private markets themes into clear analytical views that reinforce S&P Global Ratings’ position as a trusted voice in credit markets. **Market Engagement** - Elevate S&P Global Ratings’ profile through high-impact research, viewpoints, and market insights. - Act as a senior spokesperson with key external stakeholders, including regulators, central bank…