Capital Group is looking to incorporate ESG insights and data into their investment process across asset classes through thematic and company research, proprietary tools, and company engagement. The ESG Analyst will generate impactful ESG research on under-appreciated investment risks and positive investment opportunities.
Requirements
- You have experience with corporate fixed income research in one or more sectors.
- You understand corporate reporting and financial modeling, and how ESG trends will impact companies, sectors and countries in financial terms.
- You are innovative, bringing new ways to assess ESG performance on key metrics using conventional and unconventional data sources, and can work with large data sets.
- You are rigorous in your analysis to ensure that CG’s proprietary industry frameworks reflect the best insights into ESG materiality.
Responsibilities
- You will identify, research and monitor ESG issues, and work closely with investment analysts to incorporate ESG insights into their analysis where relevant.
- You will establish insights and debate your views with senior internal stakeholders including portfolio managers.
- You will engage companies under your sector coverage, develop and cultivate external expert networks, and own proprietary ESG data frameworks.
- You are innovative, bringing new ways to assess ESG performance on key metrics using conventional and unconventional data sources, and can work with large data sets.
- You are rigorous in your analysis to ensure that CG’s proprietary industry frameworks reflect the best insights into ESG materiality.
- You are skilled at building relationships internally and externally, partnering with ESG analyst peers, other internal teams such as Governance & Proxy, while keeping an eye to the external environment.
- You are comfortable conducting company engagements, helping to drive constructive conversations on key ESG issues that help us better understand the companies we invest in.
Other
- You are a curious and thorough analyst, able to deliver timely, frequent and fresh insights into new and emerging sector-specific ESG trends and how they impact the securities in which we invest.
- You have a collaborative orientation and can seamlessly partner with investment analysts on ESG research, providing a diverse perspective and additive insights.
- You excel at clear, concise written and verbal communication to an investment audience.
- You are skilled at building relationships internally and externally, partnering with ESG analyst peers, other internal teams such as Governance & Proxy, while keeping an eye to the external environment.
- You have at least 5 years of relevant research experience.
