Sector Lead – Transformative Trends (EMEA), Frankfurt

About the Role

Grade Level (for internal use): 14 The Team The EMEA Financial Services, Sovereigns, and International Public Finance team at S&P Global Ratings comprises more than 150 analysts across nine offices, delivering credit opinions across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. This cross-practice Sector Lead role drives analytical thought leadership on transformative financial trends — including geopolitical risk, private credit market expansion, digital assets, and capital markets policy shifts — and coordinates research and insight across the analytical organization and its external stakeholders.

Responsibilities and Impact

This role shapes S&P Global Ratings's analytical coverage of the systemic and transformative trends redefining financial markets, ensuring the organization maintains differentiated, forward-looking perspectives that inform credit analysis, rating committees, and external market engagement across all asset classes.

Core Analytical & Delivery

Lead sector analysis on transformative financial themes, translating complex developments into differentiated, evidence-based insights for internal and external audiences. Apply data, advanced analytics, and AI-enabled tools to enhance the depth and consistency of thematic analytical outputs.

Stakeholder & Market Engagement

Represent S&P Global Ratings's analytical perspective with senior stakeholders including management teams, investors, and regulators, upholding independence and analytical integrity. Partner with Methodology teams and participate in relevant forums to support consistent criteria interpretation while bringing sector insights to strengthen analytical frameworks.

Risk Management and Operating

Connect issuer and sector developments to forward-looking risk themes, producing insights that inform monitoring activities, research, and rating committee discussions.

Leadership & Talent Development

Coach and mentor analysts and senior analysts, building capability in sector expertise, credit judgment, and AI-enabled analytical practices. Collaborate across sectors, regions, and asset classes to share best practices, address complex cross-market developments, and enhance global analytical consistency.

What We're Looking For

Required Skills and Experience

An S&P Global employee at this level would typically have 10+ years of relevant experience in credit analysis, financial research, or analytical leadership across financial services, sovereign, or public finance sectors. Demonstrated experience leading sector analysis and producing thematic insights on transformative financial trends such as geopolitical risk transmission, private credit market evolution, digital assets, or capital markets policy developments. Demonstrated ability to translate complex financial and market developments into concise, evidence-based narratives for senior internal and external audiences. Demonstrated experience engaging senior stakeholders — including investors, regulators, and management teams — on complex analytical topics with clarity and rigor. Demonstrated experience coaching and mentoring analytical teams, building capability in sector expertise, credit judgment, and modern analytical practices.

Preferred or Helpful Experience

Experience with AI-enabled analytical tools and data-driven research methodologies in a credit analysis or financial research context. Cross-practice or cross-asset experience spanning multiple sectors or regions within a major rating agency or financial institution.

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent preferred. 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.

Additional Information

We require all candidates who reach the final stage of our interview process to attend at least one in-person interview, which is ordinarily at your nearest S&P Global Ratings office. This must be completed before we can proceed to an offer. Employees are required to work from the office a minimum of two days per week.

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. For more information, visit

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission: Advancing Essential Intelligence.

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. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values: Integrity, Discovery, Partnership 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 customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks: It's not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.
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Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global

At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets. S&P Global has a Securities Disclosure and Trading Policy (“the Policy”) that seeks to mitigate conflicts of interest by monitoring and placing restrictions on personal securities holding and trading. The Policy is designed to promote compliance with global regulations. In some Divisions, pursuant to the Policy's requirements, candidates at S&P Global may be asked to disclose securities holdings. Some roles may include a trading prohibition and remediation of positions when there is an effective or potential conflict of interest. Employment at S&P Global is contingent upon compliance with the Policy.

Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.

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