Deadline: As soon as possible
Location(s)
Ireland
Overview
Details
The Team/The Business:
When you join S&P Global Ratings, you join one of the world's leading providers of independent credit risk research and benchmarks. You will be part of a team that produces high quality fundamental research based on established criteria, you have the opportunity to ask probing questions to senior corporate executives, and interact with the global investor community.
With offices in 26 countries, rating $47.5 trillion in debt, and with nearly 1,400 credit analysts, S&P Global Ratings is an important part of the world’s financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for more than 150 years in providing investors and financers the information they need to more easily, quickly and efficiently provide capital to businesses and governments.
The Business Practice Groups include: Corporates, Public Finance, Financial Institutions, Structured Finance, Sovereign and International Public Finance, and Infrastructure.
The Impact:
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You will be responsible for conducting credit and recovery analysis related to a range of services provided to corporate, institutional and/or governmental clients.
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You will also support teams that evaluate collateral pools, credit risk, structural considerations, legal considerations, and the ability of secularisation issuers to meet their obligations to pay timelyinterest and repay principal for a wide variety of structured finance asset types.
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You will be part of a team that evaluates the overall credit worthiness of organisations and their ability to meet their financial obligations for traditional credit-based products as well as a variety of structured banking transactions.
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By supporting capital markets, S&P Global Ratings helps people to start and grow businesses, citiesand states to build highways and hospitals, and manufacturers to build factories and create jobs.
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At S&P Global Ratings, your analytical opinion truly matters and each person who works here has an essential role in S&P Global Ratings reputation of integrity, transparency, and ratings excellence.
What you stand to gain:
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You will be offered the opportunity to assist S&P Global in achieving its mission of being one of the leading providers of the highest quality risk evaluations and analytical information to the world’s financial markets.
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Summer interns will work with junior and senior analysts within S&P Global and senior management of issuing entities through the ratings process (including ratings committees and management meetings).
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You will also complete a group mock ratings committee project for the duration of the summer program. Interns will be provided with an unrated company or entity and will be responsible for all due diligence and research, in order to develop a suggested credit rating for the assigned entity. Interns will present their final recommendation at the end of the internship to a Ratings Committee, comprised of senior business leaders.
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At the end of our internship program feedback is provided, which could lead to an offer of a place on our 2025 CREDit graduate program. To get a sense of what our graduate program entails, please see a video here providing an overview of one of our current CREDit graduate’s experience. Laura made this video in conjunction with her university; IE University.
Responsibilities:
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Learn and understand ratings criteria and methodology
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Assist with preparing required documents for rating committee and issuer management meetings
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Work with assigned summer intern project teams to successfully complete and present during mock ratings committee
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Provide timely and accurate quarterly financial statistics and data analysis
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Assist in reporting, research, presentations and modelling
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Support the team on improvement in execution and ad-hoc writing projects.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
What we’re looking for:
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Postgraduate & Undergraduate students in their penultimate year of study only. All majors welcome.
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You must reside in the location of the internship throughout its entire duration.
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You must have the right to work in the country of proposed employment.
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Adept with Excel and other Microsoft Office products (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint). Programming languages such as Python, C++, R, and VBA are recommended, but not required.
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Able to learn quickly, multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment.
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Problem-solving, time-management, attention to detail and organisational abilities.
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The ability and the desire to learn to conduct your own analysis and research.
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Fluent command of English Language is essential, as is being fluent in the primary language of the country of application.
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Strong verbal & written communication skil
Dates
Deadline: As soon as possible
Cost/funding for participants
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.
From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.
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