Director--Recovery Data

Standard & Poor’s, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, is the world’s foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research, data, and valuations. An essential part of the world’s financial infrastructure, Standard & Poor’s has played a leading role for more than 140 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions. And we do it with utmost integrity. If our values speak to you, then speak to us. Standard & Poor’s U S Data Operations, which is part of the Center of Excellence, is actively recruiting a Director--Recovery Data. The Director, Recovery Data will play a senior-level role in developing and maintaining S& P’s default and recovery data, serve as a business requirements resource for various databases, drive data consolidation efforts, and lead workflow designs that streamline data collection activities.  This role is also responsible for project management support and maintenance of the existing LossStats, CreditPro, and Consortia data sets; for serving as an expert reference on internal and external client’s recovery and default data; and for determining how data will be used in default and expected loss calculations. In addition, this position serves as a quality assurance role for interpreting and reviewing complicated bankruptcy cases.  The person will be part of a global team of legal and consortia members responsible for developing new consortia around the world. The person is also responsible for oversight consolidated data reports that are sent to consortia members. This position will have 4-6 direct reports located at 55 Water Street and 5-7 direct reports located elsewhere.

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting is required; an MBA or a CFA is highly desirable Must have at least five years of experience overseeing the default recovery data collection and/or the analysis of this data, also, must have played a significant role in the workflow design of the data collection, ideally for a global financial services firm Must have an in-depth understanding of risk management, default, bankruptcy and recovery Must have solid data collection and workflow design experience; experience with databases would be considered a plus Hands-on project management experience is a requirement Previous experience managing direct reports is preferred; experience managing others located in remote locations would be considered a plus Previous experience conducting performance reviews, giving performance feedback, coaching and mentoring and devising development plans Previous experience working on global projects is a plus