Team Lead - Analytical Quality Validation

Position Summary

Position

Team Lead

Department

GAC – SPOD

Reporting To

Sector Lead/Associate Director

Location

Pune

Role Summary

As part of the GAC Analytic Quality Validation (AQV) team, this position will be in a dual role supporting analytical activities of AQV and be a people leader for GAC AQV team. AQV is a 2^nd line of defense function for S&P Ratings.

• Functional Responsibility / Domain Related

• Provide oversight, direction, analytical/value-added guidance to the employees in the operating unit in their day-to-day operations.
• Supervise the workflow and resources to effectively accomplish tasks/deliverables and ensure optimized utilization and productivity of team.
• Take complete responsibility for client delivery - quality, timeliness and completeness.
• Plan, evaluate, and improve the efficiency of business processes and procedures to enhance speed, quality, efficiency and output.
• Establish and maintain relevant controls and feedback systems to monitor and ensure smooth running of the operations.
• Ensure adherence to compliance policies and procedures of the organization.

• Client Management / Stakeholder Management

• Develop cordial and trust-based relationship with international clients and own team, and fully own the service delivery of client requests.
• Work closely with clients/relevant stakeholders to understand their project requirements, design, develop and deliver intelligence and efficient solutions by utilizing the team

• People Development

• Manage a team of Analysts, Senior Analysts and Lead Analysts.
• Assist in enhancing performance, engagement and skill development of the team.
• Coach, mentor and develop staff, including overseeing new employee onboarding and contributing to career development planning and performance reviews.
• Plan resource requirements and develop successor or back-up planning.
• Assist in managing the aspirations of team members and create an environment of continuous improvement.

• Individual Contribution

• Supporting the S&P Ratings Review Officers and Sector Lead Analysts on Regulatory Reviews across Corporates, Infrastructure, Financial Services, Structured Finance and Public Finance domains
• Perform relevant industry/sector specific research and synthesize, interpret, and analyze results to identify key credit trends and sector risks.
• Assist in performing macro tests, including identifying the relevant data sources, extracting/gathering the relevant information, evaluating the specific analytic attributes.
• Draft the sections of the Monitoring report including key takeaways of the ratings performance metrics, industry/sector trends and risks, summary of the analysis of macro tests etc.
• Present the insights and analysis from the Monitoring report to Review Officer/Sector Lead Analyst
• Lead key S&P initiatives/projects

Essential Qualification

MBA or equivalent

Experience

• Experience of eight or more years of relevant experience in financial services industry; Operations or Sales/Marketing divisions of firms would be an added advantage.
• Proven experience of leading teams and global client management

Skills

• Good interpersonal relationship building and employee coaching and development skills.
• Excellent organizational and leadership skills and drive to achieve outcomes under stringent timelines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency in Advanced MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint); Knowledge of automation and use/scope of new technologies such as R, Python, Tableau etc. to guide the team, are a plus.