Associate – Credit Analyst – Israel recruitment

Standard Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, is the world's foremost provider of financial market intelligence, including independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data. With approximately 7,500 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.

We are looking for a highly skilled individual to join our Infrastructure Finance Ratings group as an experienced analyst at Associate level, based in our Israel office. The individual will join the Light Industries team and the role will include corporate analysis primarily focusing on covering Durable Consumer Goods and Real Estate credits.

The successful candidate will be educated to degree level in a relevant business related field, and possess the ability to undertake rigorous analytical work. You will be proficient at doing research and writing analytical reports with a track record of fundamental analysis. Understanding of the Consumer Goods / Real Estate market would be ideal but background in other sectors would be considered particularly where this has involved detailed credit analysis. An ability to quickly absorb, analyse and act upon information is required.

The successful candidate will be comfortable in an environment which stimulates continuous improvement and innovation, and the highest customer service standards whilst adhering to established ratings criteria, methodology, policies and procedures. The individual will be able to demonstrate analytical excellence, and good presentation skills in front of internal and external audiences, and maintain and enhance the quality and timeliness of our analysis. Moreover, you must demonstrate an ability to work at board level and represent Standard Poor's in a highly professional manner to global investors. You will be required to prepare and perform meetings with multi-national, senior management teams but also to undertake site visits to local projects, to extract and assess information relating to credit quality and to explain our credit rating opinions. Strong presentation and organizational skills are also required to present detailed information and reasoned opinions to our credit rating committees.

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