Senior Analyst – Telecommunications, Media, Technology and Entertainment, Paris, Frankfurt or Madrid
Company: S&P Global
Role summary
Senior Analyst – Telecommunications, Media, Technology and Entertainment, Paris, Frankfurt or Madrid is a full-time role at S&P Global in Paris, Ile-de-France, France (hybrid). Posted 2026-08-22. Experience level: 2-5.
- Job title
- Senior Analyst – Telecommunications, Media, Technology and Entertainment, Paris, Frankfurt or Madrid
- Company
- S&P Global
- Location
- Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Work arrangement
- hybrid
- Employment type
- full-time
- Category
- Software Engineering
- Experience level
- 2-5
- Date posted
- 2026-08-22
If you have a strong background in the TMT sector and enjoy deep-dive market research, this is a fantastic opportunity to join a global leader with offices in major European hubs. You will be helping shape industry intelligence for a high-impact team, offering a great balance of analytical rigor and professional growth.
Job description
About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use):
11 The Team:
S&P Global Ratings' Corporates practice assesses the creditworthiness of companies across industries by analyzing business risk, strategy, competitive position, and financial performance to support transparent and comparable decision-making. The European Telecommunications, Media, Technology and Entertainment team comprises analysts based across London, Paris, Frankfurt, Stockholm, and Madrid, covering a portfolio of investment-grade and speculative-grade corporate entities. This breadth offers analysts a distinctive opportunity to build deep credit expertise across some of Europe's most dynamic and fast-evolving sectors.
Responsibilities and Impact:
Team Contribution & Capability Building
• Guide and coach junior analysts and research staff, building capability in credit analysis, data discipline, and analytical tooling to reinforce consistent, high-quality outputs.
• Strengthen team productivity by creating reusable analytical assets and contributing to automation initiatives that free capacity for human analysis and judgment.
• Identify and propose workflow improvements that remove unnecessary manual steps without compromising governance or analytical standards.
Core Analytical & Delivery
• Lead end-to-end credit analysis and surveillance for assigned corporate credits, ensuring timely, high-quality delivery with clear accountability for outputs and priorities.
• Synthesize portfolio performance, market signals, and peer context into decision-ready insights that support rating committee discussions and risk assessments.
• Embed and validate generative AI and large language model tools within analytical workflows, maintaining human accountability for all conclusions and material risk judgments.
Stakeholder & Market Engagement
• Engage with issuer management teams and external stakeholders alongside senior team members, translating complex analysis into clear, evidence-based narratives for clients and rating committees.
• Prepare well-structured committee materials and act as a spokesperson for S&P Global Ratings when required.
Risk Management and Operating
• Apply methodology, confidentiality, and data governance requirements consistently, escalating issues early with clear recommendations to protect analytical integrity.
• Contribute to the responsible design and testing of automation and AI-enabled workflows, maintaining clear boundaries between what can be automated and what requires human judgment.
What We're Looking For:
Required Skills and Experience:
• An S&P Global employee at this level would typically have 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience in credit analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality work across multiple credits with limited oversight, and to coach junior colleagues through shared analytical standards and tools.
• Strong collaboration and relationship management skills, with the ability to influence through credibility and constructive engagement.
• Demonstrated credit, financial, and risk analysis skills, with the ability to link fundamental business and sector drivers to forward-looking risk views.
• Practical experience embedding generative AI or large language model tools into professional workflows to improve productivity and analytical output.
• Proficiency in analytical and spreadsheet tools, with a willingness to develop skills in data and automation platforms.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex analytical content into clear, concise narratives for senior stakeholders and rating committees.
• High standards for analytical quality, traceability, and governance, with sound judgment on the responsible use of AI tools in a controlled environment.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to automation workflow design and testing, with clear judgment on which analytical decisions require human oversight.
Preferred or Helpful Experience:
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferred. 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.
• Direct experience analyzing corporate entities in Telecommunications, Media, Technology, or Entertainment sectors.
Additional Information:
• Employees are required to work from the office a minimum of two days per week.
• Candidates who reach the final stage of the interview process will be asked to attend at least one in-person interview at their nearest S&P Global Ratings office before an offer can be extended.
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 drive