ESG Research Support

Role details: Supporting the European ESG team which focuses on highlighting thematic trends around regional & sectoral aggregates and at stock level focused on Environment, Social and Governance guidelines.

Primary responsibilities on this role include:
• Develop and maintain excel models to evaluate fund ownership for Global companies, sectors and regions.
• Perform stringent data quality checks on third party ESG data using financial databases and company filings. Ensure robustness of data being used for modelling purpose
• Create, update and maintain comprehensive Excel databases on ESG data
• Help the team in running back-tests of ESG related strategies. Apply quantitative techniques to analyse historical trends and future trends.
• Contribute to research report writing and summarizing peer research for any thematic topics mostly related to investment strategy for ESG investors
• Assist the onshore team on day to day basis and work on ad-hoc requests.
• Assist the team in analyzing macro level ESG trends to write thematic reports.

Candidates preferred: Pro-active candidates with experience in top-down macro research and python coding basics, with an interest in working on ESG domain

Key skills: Advanced level MS Excel skills and report writing experience. Experience with VBA macros/Python is preferred, especially with Python libraries such as Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib

Database skills: Preferably experienced with Bloomberg Finance LP, Datastream Eikon or other similar financial databases and has knowledge on various company filings

Knowledge of finance: Basic finance knowledge around valuations, financial ratios and extracting data from company filings