Data Associate

Job Description

The Team: The S&P Global Ratings Data and Content Management team is a team tasked with unlocking data & delivering content to our analysts and customers. The team acts as the main point of engagement with our customers on projects, including analytical partners, to discover and drive new and enhanced content creation through definitions, lineage, mapping, readiness, and inventory. The team ensures availability of content and its end-to-end completeness and quality for both internal and external use, according to our governance standards, enabling customers to make fast, informed decisions. The team sits within our Technology department, as part of the broader Data Management team, and works in close partnership with many teams throughout the Ratings organization (including strategic operations, technology, analytical, commercial, etc.) and cross-divisionally with CRISIL and Market Intelligence. The Impact: You will be a Data Associate with the Governments Data and Content Management team and will serve as the primary point of contact for all things content related to your team across a broad spectrum of stakeholders. You have the opportunity to collaborate with the team responsible for advancing, increasing, and delivering the end-to-end content flow within Governments (US Public Finance, International Public Finance, and Sovereigns), to help drive our analytic capabilities, customer satisfaction, business results and growth. Responsibilities: Understand requirements for information from various sources, tools, and documents, to enable clear interpretations of meaning for analysts and clients; Support process updates as part of criteria and commercial use case development and lead operationalizing of these processes; Understand and be able to make sense of data used for analytical purposes in deriving a rating or an evaluation; Have a view of RatingsDirect product and Ratings 360 product and how existing ratings data fits in and how it may enrich current content offerings; Partner with data quality to introduce new quality measurements for establishing content fit for use; Working with business stakeholders, data visualization and reporting specialists to determine analytics data consumption mechanisms; Interact with internal and external clients as necessary; Thorough knowledge of business and data and content organization role in the value stream to support business value; Undertake data field mapping and support maintenance of data dictionary; Approach platform in a client-centric manner with suggestions that could lead to enhancements. Qualifications At least 2 years of data governance or data management experience with technical skills required (e.g. data querying, data analysis, data visualization) Intermediate SQL skills + MS Excel Experience with Databricks Financial data knowledge preferred Familiarity with database architecture and ability to manipulate large datasets Content product & distribution experience a plus Strong influential, negoitation, interpersonal, and communication skills Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment Agile (scrum) experience a plus Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 2+ year of experience