Associate Director - Fixed Income Indices

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

• 12
• S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) is the world’s leading resource for benchmarks and investable indices. Our solutions are widely considered indispensable for tracking market performance, evaluating portfolios, and developing investment strategies. Our fixed income indexing solutions include recognized brands covering bonds (iBoxx and S&P) and credit derivatives (CDX and iTraxx).

The Team

The Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities (FICC) team at S&P Dow Jones Indices is a globally connected group accountable for the P&L of a market-leading suite of outcome-oriented fixed income index solutions — spanning iBoxx and S&P bond indices across cash bonds, loans, and structured credit. Operating at the intersection of rigorous quantitative product development, institutional client strategy, and capital markets innovation, the team partners with the world's leading asset managers, ETF providers, pension funds, and financial institutions. This is a high-impact environment where analytical precision, commercial drive, and deep fixed income expertise are at the core of everything we do.

Responsibilities and Impact

• •Act as a key technical authority on fixed income index methodology across cash bonds, loans, and structured credit — delivering quantitative analysis, number-crunching, and methodology interpretation with rigour and precision for internal teams and external clients (approx. 50% of role).
• •Drive commercial growth across APAC and Middle East markets by partnering directly with sales teams — attending client meetings, delivering compelling index pitches, participating in industry conferences, and progressively developing the ability to scope and quote custom index solutions (approx. 30–40% of role).
• •Build and represent the S&P Dow Jones Indices Fixed Income franchise as a spokesperson at industry conferences and events, producing market-facing thought leadership content that positions our index capabilities as the benchmark of choice in the region (approx. 10–20% of role).
• •Coordinate the index launch process end-to-end, collaborating with Research & Development, Operations, Governance, and Sales to ensure rigorous, on-schedule product delivery aligned to evolving client and market needs.
• •Lead client engagement and analytical output — delivering external presentations, participating in institutional client discussions with ETF teams, asset management product groups, and strategic asset allocation functions, and articulating index construction logic with precision.
• •Contribute to product innovation and methodology excellence , including index methodology consultations and annual index reviews, with direct visibility across senior leadership and key client accounts globally.

What We're Looking For

• •Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Business, or a related quantitative discipline.
• •Experience: An S&P Global employee at this level would typically have 7+ years of relevant experience in fixed income within the financial services industry, gained at a buy-side firm (asset manager, ETF provider, or strategic asset allocation team), index provider, exchange, private bank, or bank (with experience across credit, structured products, or commercial banking).
• •Technical Skills: Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including financial data management, modelling, and quantitative analysis within large fixed income datasets (essential).
• •Communication: Proven track record of delivering external client presentations and clearly articulating complex fixed income index methodologies to institutional investors and senior stakeholders, including at industry conferences.
• •Mobility: Ability to travel approximately 10% of working time as required by business needs.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• •Demonstrated experience working with or within institutional client teams, including ETF product teams, asset management product groups, or strategic asset allocation functions (e.g., investment consultants or multi-asset platforms such as Morningstar or Mercer).
• •Prior exposure to index methodology, construction, or product lifecycle management within a fixed income context.
• •Experience using AI tools for data analysis, research, workflow automation, or the development of client-facing materials.
• •Programming and data analysis skills in Python, R, or SQL.
• •Proficiency in Korean or Japanese (spoken and written). (See compliance flag below.)
• •Demonstrated experience developing and delivering custom product solutions or bespoke analytical outputs for institutional clients.
• •Experience representing a financial product or index franchise at industry conferences or client forums.

Additional Information

Employees are required to work from the office a minimum of two days per week.

About S&P Global

S&P Global delivers essential intelligence that powers decision-making. We provide the world’s leading organizations with the right data, connected technologies, and expertise they need to move ahead. As part of our team, you’ll help solve complex challenges that equip businesses, governments, and individuals with the knowledge to adapt to a changing economic landscape.

S&P Dow Jones Indices provides iconic and innovative index solutions, bringing transparency to global capital markets.

About S&P Global Dow Jones Indic e s

At S&P Dow Jones Indices, we provide iconic and innovative index solutions backed by unparalleled expertise across the asset-class spectrum. By bringing transparency to the global capital markets, we empower investors everywhere to make decisions with conviction. We’re the largest global resource for index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500 ® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ® . More assets are invested in products based upon our indices than any other index provider in the world. With over USD 7.4 trillion in passively managed assets linked to our indices and over USD 11.3 trillion benchmarked to our indices, our solutions are widely considered indispensable in tracking market performance, evaluating portfolios and developing investment strategies.

S&P Dow Jones Indices 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/spdji .

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 p