Research Associate I

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About the Role: Grade Level (for internal use): 07 The Team: The team is responsible for creating and delivering high-quality financial content from sell-side research, leveraging both advanced data extraction technologies and domain expertise. The team thrives on collaboration, values precision, and is committed to driving efficiency in the data collection process, ensuring impactful insights for clients. The Impact: This role plays a critical part in delivering accurate and actionable financial insights, which empower clients to make well-informed investment decisions. By ensuring the highest standards of data quality and reliability, this position strengthens the credibility and usability of our consensus data. It directly contributes to enhancing client satisfaction, driving business success, and maintaining a strong presence in the financial markets. What’s in it for You: • Opportunity to build expertise in understanding sell side models for publicly-listed companies, enhancing your analytical and domain knowledge. • Develop a strong understanding of diverse business models and gain sector-specific insights. • Exposure to data extraction tools and methodologies. • Professional growth through structured learning and cross-functional teamwork. Responsibilities: • Extract and prepare insightful financial content from sell-side research using a mix of extraction technologies and sector knowledge. • Analyze diverse business models for publicly listed companies and surface key modeling approaches. • Conduct thorough data quality checks to ensure accuracy and reliability. • Collaborate within the team to optimize and enhance data collection processes. • Communicate findings effectively with stakeholders across the organization. • Incorporate changes in sell-side models to maintain consensus estimates for companies under a specific sector. • Highlight errors in models to improve the basic inputs of decision making for the investing community. What We’re Looking For Basic Qualifications: • Education • Post Graduates - MBA, M.Com, CFA L1 preferred (2026 passouts) • Graduate - BBA/B.Com/BMS/BAF with CFA L2 cleared • Primary Shift - Day Shift but candidate should be willing to work in all shifts on a rotational basis including night shifts i.e 2-3 weeks in a quarter (5 AM to 2 PM, 12 PM to 9 PM and 8 PM to 5 AM) • Experience in the application of basic concepts like valuation, financial statements, GAAP/Recurring income, ratio analysis. • Should enjoy breaking down and interpreting financial models of a company to understand the basic building blocks of a company’s business model. • Demonstrated experience in creating consensus models would be a plus Soft Skills: • A positive attitude with attention to detail. • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities. • Excellent analytical skills and aptitude for critical thinking. • Ability to articulate effectively with stakeholders across the organization • An eye for details and the ability to identify errors in modeling based on structured rules and statistics-based tools. Additional Note: This is not an Equity Research or Financial Modeling job. We neither write research reports nor create sell side models. However, the job provides the opportunity to learn about businesses and financial models from the work of the best and brightest analysts in the world for all listed companies of note. It provides an opportunity to look through the modeling approaches across sectors/industries/business models across geographies and in the process, learn from the best. 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 des