**About the Role:** **Grade Level (for internal use):** 09 **The Team:** S&P Global Ratings Editorial team consists of about 100 staff globally and is part of the Ratings Operations division. As part of this team, you will work closely with designers, editors, and analysts globally to produce graphics that will appear in S&P Global Ratings' research. We operate in an exciting, diverse, and dynamic environment and we are committed to putting our people first. We are seeking a graphic designer to join S&P Global Ratings’ editorial group in Asia-Pacific for 12 months to cover maternity leave, based in either Melbourne or Sydney. You will work as part of a global team to design and produce reports, data visualizations, infographics, and other digital assets for publication across a range of websites. **The Impact:** Your work will be critical to S&P Global Ratings' mission to provide transparency and accountability to financial markets. The quality and accuracy of our credit opinions are essential to our reputation as the foremost provider of market intelligence. You will help showcase this to a broad audience, clarifying deep insights by making them easy to understand at a glance for our readers. **What You Stand to Gain:** + You will work in a fast-paced, exciting environment. + You will collaborate with a global team of content creators at the forefront of next-generation publishing. + You will gain wide geographical exposure by working on assignments with analytical and editorial colleagues around the world. + You will accelerate your career through continuous learning opportunities, including developing your digital content skills and subject matter expertise. **Responsibilities:** + Conceptualize, design, and produce data visualizations, infographics, social media images, and other digital assets to support our research and insights publications. + Page layout, design, and desktop publishing for a range of report formats. + Ensure design outputs conform to global standards in terms of format, house style, and brand specifications. + Collaborate with editors and authors to enhance the customer experience while adhering to design and visualization best practices. + Project manage design jobs from submission through to publication. + Act as an internal brand advocate across design and publishing. + Apply impeccable attention to detail and workflow processes to ensure error-free publication under tight deadlines. **What We’re Looking For:** Basic Required Qualifications: + Bachelor's degree in graphic design, multimedia, data journalism, visual communications, or a related discipline. + Proven design ability, with a minimum of two years' experience in a relevant field. + Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative suite, particularly Illustrator, PhotoShop, and InDesign. + Demonstrable interest and knowledge of financial data topics, or willingness to learn. + Excellent written and verbal English communication skills. + Good grasp of mathematical and data analysis concepts, including an ability to process data using Microsoft Excel. Additional Preferred Qualifications: + Ability to work well on a global team and effectively collaborate with editors, designers, IT, and marketers to ensure that content presentation and delivery is orchestrated and well-executed. + Ability to adapt in a fast-paced and pressured environment. + Good interpersonal and decision-making skills. + Video experience welcome but not essential. \#LI-EY1 **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 Purpose:** Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology–the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world. Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress. **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. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference. **Our Values:** **Integrity, Discovery, Partnership** At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. 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 provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global. Our benefits include: + Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body. + Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on. + Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills. + Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs. + Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families. + Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference. For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries **Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:** At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets. S&P Global has a Securities Disclosure and Trading Policy (“the Policy”) that seeks to mitigate conflicts of interest by monitoring and placing restrictions on personal securities holding and trading. The Policy is designed to promote compliance with global regulations. In some Divisions, pursuant to the Policy’s requirements, candidates at S&P Global may be asked to disclose securities holdings. Some roles may include a trading prohibition and remediation of positions when there is an effective or potential conflict of interest. Employment at S&P Global is contingent upon compliance with the Policy. **Recruitment Fraud Alert:** If you receive an email from a spglobalind.com domain or any other regionally based domains, it is a scam and should be reported to reportfraud@spglobal.com . S&P Global never requires any candidate to pay money for job applications, interviews, offer letters, “pre-employment training” or for equipment/delivery of equipment. Stay informed and protect yourself from recruitment fraud by reviewing our guidelines, fraudulent domains, and how to report suspicious activity here (https://www.spglobal.com/content/dam/spglobal/corporate/en/documents/careers/Corp\_0525-Recruitment-Fraud-Alert.pdf) . ----------------------------------------------------------- **Equal Opportunity Employer** S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment. If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to:  EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com  and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.  **US Candidates Only:** The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf   describes discrimination protections under federal law. Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision - https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/pdf/pay-transp\_%20English\_formattedESQA508c.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------- 20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), EDTGRP202.1 - Middle Professional Tier I (EEO Job Group) **Job ID:** 318674 **Posted On:** 2025-07-29 **Location:** Melbourne, Victoria, Australia