The Team: The ESG Innovation and Solutions Team sits within S&P Global’s newly formed Sustainable1 organization. The team innovates and delivers essential data and intelligence to companies and financial institutions so that they can better understand their exposure to ESG risks and opportunities and report in line with mandatory and voluntary reporting requirements. The team is composed of experienced professionals driven to identify the transformative solutions of tomorrow.
Responsibilities:
- Develop ESG Analytics Services for financial institutions that provide in-depth analytical insights on the ESG performance of companies, investment products and portfolios using S&P Global’s proprietary data, methods, and analytics
- Clearly communicate insights and technical approaches to clients verbally and in writing, including documenting analytical methodologies for reports and developing graphs, charts, and other outputs appropriate for use by senior executives
- Support the delivery of ESG Analytics Services to key strategic clients in the financial institutions segment
- Support ESG Specialists in S&P Global’s ESG Commercial Team by developing technical approaches for proposals or RFP/RFI responses that recognize client needs and convey our value proposition
- Work collaboratively with S&P Global’s technical, product development, technology, commercial and marketing teams on new product innovation
- Work closely with S&P Global’s ESG product development team to build out new data and analytics products on our technology platforms
- Develop product-related content (including white papers, product brochures, methodology documents, and blogs) relevant to regional markets and segments
- Represent S&P Global conferences and seminars
What We’re Looking For:
- Ideally the candidate would be highly experienced in developing and applying ESG metrics to support business and investment decision-making. This could include working in a product management role for an ESG data provider or in a sustainability consultancy firm
- Other relevant experience would include working as an analyst within an asset manager, pension fund or bank, helping to integrate environmental factors into the investment or lending decision making processes
- Solid understanding of capital markets, corporate financing, types of investment instruments, fund construction and investment strategies
- Excellent project management skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including confidently presenting complex information to clients in ways that they can easily understand and inform their actions
- Personable, with a demonstrated strength in planning and executing work assignments independently, and as part of an international analytics and client delivery team
- Working experience in data analytics, including coding in Python or R, complemented by excellent Excel skills
- Self-motivated, organized, detail-oriented, with a positive, “can do” attitude
Qualifications:
- 3+ years professional work experience in the finance and sustainability industry
- An undergraduate degree in relevant subjects such as Economics, Finance, Environmental Economics, Development Economics or Environmental Sciences or relevant work experience
- Knowledge of some of the following sustainability areas that companies and financial institutions are involved in: TCFD, SFDR, SDGs, ESG integration; environmental fund or index creation; environmental risk analysis; green finance, and reporting of investments in different asset classes and across company value chains
- Demonstrated ability to synthesize technical data to develop insights on environmental and financial performance at the company and portfolio level
- The candidate should be conscious of detail and numerically proficient with natural curiosity, and an innovative approach to problem solving
- Fluent written and spoken English. Additional languages will be considered favorably including Mandarin, Spanish, German, and French
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