S&P Global Australia | Associate Director - Structured Finance

Responsibilities

• The Australian team focuses specifically on Residential Mortgage (RMBS) and Auto and Equipment (ABS) transactions, responsible for credit analysis, cash flow modeling, and transaction document analysis in support of new issue ratings and ongoing surveillance.
• The team is part of S&P Global Ratings' global analyst community of more than 1,400 analysts across key financial hubs worldwide, dedicated to delivering high-quality insights and exceptional client service.
• Act as a senior reference point, coaching analysts on credit fundamentals, modeling discipline, and responsible AI use.
• Lead surveillance and analytical updates, connecting performance data and market developments to forward-looking risk themes.
• Conduct due diligence meetings with issuers and actively manage relationships with issuers, intermediaries, and investors.
• Ensure adherence to methodology, confidentiality, and data governance requirements; embed responsible AI use in workflows and contribute to the design and scaling of controlled automation and agentic workflow solutions.
• Lead end-to-end analytical execution for new issue RMBS and ABS transactions, including detailed review of legal and operating documents for compliance with criteria and identification of structural issues, setting a consistently high bar for quality and timeliness.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Excel, financial modeling, and cash flow analysis, with a strong understanding of financial markets, structured products, and their relationship to credit risk.
• Demonstrated credit and financial analysis skills, with the ability to translate complexity into decision-useful narratives and connect market developments to emerging risk themes.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills for committee-ready documentation, issuer due diligence, and engagement with investors and market participants.
• Practical AI fluency, with experience embedding generative AI and large language model tools into analytical workflows to increase productivity, paired with disciplined validation, governance, and judgment.
• Proven coaching and mentoring experience, developing junior analysts through feedback and quality review, reinforcing human accountability in AI-enabled work and driving process simplification through standardization and tooling.
• Demonstrated ability to scale automation and agentic workflows by defining requirements, supporting testing and user acceptance testing, and enabling adoption.
• A master's degree or professional certification (such as CFA) is highly valued.
• We welcome candidates from traditional finance disciplines as well as diverse academic backgrounds that support innovative and critical thinking.
• Preferred or Helpful Experience

S&P Global

S&P Global Inc. is a US financial information and analytics company listed on the New York Stock Exchange as SPGI and headquartered in New York. Its roots go back to 1860, when Henry Varnum Poor published his first guide to American railroads; the company took its present name in 2016 and combined with IHS Markit in 2022. Its businesses include credit ratings (S&P Global Ratings), financial data, research and analytics (S&P Global Market Intelligence, home of Capital IQ), commodity and energy information (S&P Global Energy, formerly Commodity Insights) and index services (S&P Dow Jones Indices, which maintains the S&P 500).

• Industry: Financial information — credit ratings, benchmarks, market data and analytics
• Headquarters: New York, USA