Sector Lead – EMEA Financial Services/Financial Institutions (European Union), Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Stockholm

About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use):
14
About the Role
S&P Global Ratings' Financial Services practice delivers forward-looking credit insights across banks, insurers, and other financial institutions — assessing capital strength, funding and liquidity, asset quality, and governance to inform rating opinions that markets rely on and to help stakeholders understand how evolving risks, from macro shifts to digital assets and decentralized finance, affect financial stability and credit performance. The EMEA Financial Services team spans more than 150 analysts across nine regional offices. As Sector Lead for EMEA Financial Services/Financial Institutions (European Union), you will be the senior analytical voice on European banking and financial sector risk, driving thought leadership and analytical consistency across the practice.
What You'll Do
Impact
You will shape how investors, regulators, and markets understand credit risk across the European financial institutions sector. Your thought leadership will define sector narratives, your engagement with the European Central Bank and senior regulators will reinforce S&P Global Ratings' credibility, and your mentorship will build the analytical talent that sustains long-term excellence across the team.
Responsibilities
Act as the primary analytical spokesperson and counterpart for the Continental European financial institutions ecosystem — including the European Central Bank, regulators, institutional investors, and major media — delivering high-profile presentations on banking, non-bank financials, and emerging areas such as decentralized finance and neobanks.
Lead thought-leading research on European banking trends and systemic risk; chair the regional Analytical Oversight Credit Committee, define strategic portfolio reviews, and set annual analytical priorities grounded in data-driven analysis and forward-looking market insights.
Leadership & Talent Development
Coach and mentor analysts as a senior role model, strengthening sector expertise, credit judgment, and AI-enabled analytical capabilities; collaborate across sectors, regions, and asset classes to share best practices and promote global analytical consistency.
Core Analytical & Delivery
Lead forward-looking, market-relevant sector analysis, translating sector and issuer developments into differentiated, decision-ready insights using data, advanced analytics, and AI-enabled tools for both internal and external audiences.
Stakeholder & Market Engagement
Represent S&P Global Ratings' analytical perspective with objectivity and integrity across high-profile stakeholder engagements; partner with Methodology teams and participate in global forums to strengthen consistent criteria application and share market insights that improve analytical practices.
Risk Management & Operations
Connect sector developments to forward-looking risk themes, producing insights that inform monitoring activities, research, and rating committee discussions.
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 in financial services.
Demonstrated ability to translate complex financial and market developments into concise, evidence-based narratives and to engage investors, regulators, and management teams on complex analytical topics with clarity and rigor.
Demonstrated experience coaching and mentoring analytical teams, with a track record of building sector expertise, credit judgment, and modern analytical capabilities.
English: Fluent (able to conduct meetings, collaborate effectively, and communicate clearly in writing and verbally) — Required. Primary language of the country of application (German, French, Italian, Spanish, or Swedish): Fluent (able to conduct meetings, collaborate effectively, and communicate clearly in writing and verbally) — Required.
Preferred or Helpful Experience
Experience with AI-enabled analytical tools and data-driven research methodologies in a credit analysis or financial research context.
Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent required. 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 www.spglobal.com/ratings
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:
We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.
Our benefits include:
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 resource