Director – Denver, CO or Toronto

The Esoteric ABS team at S&P Global Ratings evaluates the credit risk of structured finance transactions backed by non-traditional collateral — including transportation assets, data centers, triple-net leases, whole business securitizations, timeshare facilities, and private equity structures. The team delivers independent credit opinions that help issuers and investors navigate complex instruments, providing market-relevant perspectives on performance trends, issuance conditions, and evolving credit dynamics. This is a senior leadership role at the heart of the practice, where analytical authority, team development, and stakeholder influence come together.

As a Director on the Esoteric ABS team, you will lead credit analysis across a portfolio of complex, non-traditional asset-backed structures, serve as an escalation point for analytical matters, and guide a team of analysts to deliver forward-looking, market-ready credit opinions. Your expertise will shape rating committee outcomes, drive the adoption of modern analytical practices, and influence how market participants understand risk across one of the most technically demanding areas of structured finance.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop analysts, building deep credit expertise alongside the ability to leverage generative AI, advanced analytics, and automation tools effectively; drive adoption of modern analytical practices across monitoring, drafting, research, and workflow execution while maintaining strong human judgment and accountability.
• Lead end-to-end credit and capital markets analysis across an assigned portfolio of esoteric asset classes — including transportation ABS, private equity securitizations, triple-net leases, data centers, timeshares, and whole business structures — delivering forward-looking insights that support ratings, surveillance, and rating committee discussions.
• Serve as subject matter expert on cash flow analysis, transaction structures, and ratings criteria; lead rating committee discussions, review third-party model outputs, provide analytical guidance to junior team members, and act as the escalation point for complex analytical matters.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with issuers, investors, bankers, legal counsel, and other market participants; contribute to thought leadership through commentaries, webinars, podcasts, and external market engagement activities.
• Communicate complex, data-informed analysis clearly and credibly while maintaining analytical independence and objectivity.
• Maintain disciplined oversight of portfolio risk, ensuring emerging risks are identified early and escalated appropriately; apply rigorous controls to AI and automated outputs, ensuring transparency, explainability, and adherence to governance and regulatory standards.

Required Skills and Experience

• An S&P Global employee at this level would typically have 10+ years of relevant experience in structured finance, securitization, credit analysis, capital markets, or related fields.
• Experience mentoring colleagues and/or managing small teams, with a demonstrated ability to foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and responsible AI adoption.
• Strong credit expertise and the ability to deliver high-quality analytical output at pace across a complex, multi-asset portfolio.
• Practical experience using generative AI, data, and advanced analytics tools to enhance research, monitoring, drafting, and workflow efficiency, with strong validation and analytical discipline.
• Strong relationship management skills and a proactive stakeholder engagement mindset, communicating complex analytical insights clearly and credibly while maintaining analytical independence.

Preferred or Helpful Experience

• Experience partnering with Data, Technology, Compliance, and Methodology teams to identify workflow improvements and scale best practices across the function.

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required. A master's degree or professional certification (such as CFA) is highly valued.

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.

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.

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.

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