Job Description
Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP), is the world's foremost provider of financial market intelligence, including independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data. With approximately 8,500 employees, including wholly-owned affiliates, located in 21 countries, Standard & Poor's is an essential part of the world's financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for more than 140 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions. For more information, visit http://www.standardandpoors.com.
The Research Assistant will work with the Corporate Ratings team. Research Assistants are primarily responsible for generating and inputting appropriate financial and economic data from/to PC/Mainframe databases, retrieving source documents, and updating ratings data assisting the analytical staff.
Under limited supervision, Research Assistants will also perform some or all of the following:
- Contact source of information to gather required documentation as specified by group document checklists.
- Extract financial and economic data from source materials pertinent to assigned deals and inputs to group applications.
- Generate reports from computer systems.
- Update gross debt volume.
- Work in conjunction and at the direction of senior analysts in preparing necessary information for rating committee presentations.
- Maintain adherence to deadlines.
- Maintain related records and files.
- May answer mail or telephone inquiries.
* This is a Guild Represented Position
Job Requirements
- An undergraduate degree in Business Management, Finance, Economics, or Math.
- Strong verbal communication skills
- Strong analytical skills (requirement)
- Strong written communication skills (requirement)
- The ability to work well in teams (requirement)
- Customer service orientation (requirement)
- The ability to organize, meet deadlines and to multitask (requirement)
- Good problem solving skills (requirement)
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