S&P Global Market Intelligence (2024)
TheRole: Product Services Operations Summer Intern
The Location: London, United Kingdom
The Team: Portfolio valuations is a leading provider of independent valuations for cross asset OTC Derivatives and cash products, leveraging unique datasets and established methodologies with market standard models. The Product Services team is responsible for the building and maintaining of long-lasting relationships with customers as well as the daily processing, quality control review and delivery of derivative valuations.
The Impact: This team acts as the first point of contact for client queries and is one of the key drivers of long-lasting relationships that can drive new opportunities and growth of the service. A key characteristic of the role is the daily interaction with customers and the focus on driving change internally to address challenges our customers are facing. This team also has a particular focus on price accuracy and quality controls working closely with asset class and market data specialists for valuation investigations and deep dives in order to address customer queries are valuation exceptions.
What’s in it for you:
During your summer at S&P Global you'll have the chance to partner with our industry experts, with on-the-job experience focusing on high impact work that allows you to apply and develop your skills. Networking, business insights and tailored learning opportunities all support your growth and development, setting you up for success as you begin your career.
The Summer 2024 Internship Program will provide you with a variety of experiences to help you identify your strengths, develop highly transferable skills, and align you to a successful career path for a bright future at S&P Global.
- Get exposure to vanilla and complex cross asset derivates pricing, including Rates, Credit, FX, Equity, Commodity, and Structured Products.
- Interact daily and work closely with clients building long lasting relationships and assisting them with daily queries including price challenge investigations.
- Work closely with asset class, market data and quant specialists for valuation deep dives and contributing to change for new initiatives
- Be part of a global diverse team collaborating with teams across regions and locations.
The successful candidate must be available from 17-Jun to 23-Aug 2024.
Responsibilities:
- Building and maintaining strong and long-lasting customer relationships.
- Organizing and running daily and monthly valuation processes for customers.
- Hands-on responsibility of investigation and resolution of simple and complex price challenges and queries.
- Providing product expertise and analysis to customers.
- Ensuring that data capture and cleaning processes are run, refined and automated.
What We’re Looking For:
- Penultimate year students working towards a BSC in a quantitative discipline. Knowledge of derivatives pricing is preferable
- Good understanding of OTC derivative valuations in one or more asset classes and be keen to extend knowledge across all asset classes.
- Strong knowledge of common office tools and software including Excel and VBA. Other programming experience in other languages desirable e.g. SQL, Python
- Appetite for providing services to external clients daily. Must embrace the importance of high service levels as part of a commercial relationship and must be to communicate effectively with external clients and across business units within the company.