About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use):
10 The role:
Shape the Future of Sustainable Finance.
As a Climate & Sustainability Analyst, you will combine quantitative rigor and AI-driven analytics with sharp commercial instinct to help market leaders navigate the net-zero transition.
Build & Innovate: Deploy AI workflows, rigorous quantitative models, and scenario analysis to assess climate risks and opportunities.
Deliver Impact: Advise top financial institutions and enterprises on strategic decarbonization and evolving global standards.
Win the Market: Act as a technical specialist with a client-first mindset, translating complex data into compelling pitches and winning proposals.
The Team:
Powered by S&P Global’s unmatched data intelligence, the Climate and Sustainability Services team is a global powerhouse with a large number of market practitioners and academic experts.
Operating without regional boundaries, we combine proprietary datasets and rigorous cross-disciplinary analytics to help global market leaders seamlessly embed climate and sustainability into core enterprise strategy. In this role, you will report into the Pacific Practice Lead, driving high-impact client solutions across the region and globally.
Key responsibilities:
Collaborative Innovation & AI Transformation (Lead Driver): Thrive in a fast-paced, cross-functional global team—bringing an open, growth-oriented mindset to constantly challenge legacy workflows. Actively design, test, and deploy AI-driven solutions and automated analytical pipelines across all practice areas to accelerate client delivery, scale proprietary toolkits, and pioneer next-gen climate advisory products.
Rigorous Project Management & Execution : Own project lifecycles from scoping to delivery—driving cross-functional workstreams, enforcing strict quality standards, managing timelines, and seamlessly coordinating global stakeholder inputs to exceed client expectations.
Climate & Nature Analytics : Execute quantitative analyses on greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting (incl. financed emissions across asset classes), climate-related physical and transition risks (through scenario analysis methodologies), nature & biodiversity impacts and dependencies and target setting to evaluate clients’ key impacts, risk exposure and potential opportunities.
Strategic Solutioning & Disclosures : Guide clients through global reporting standards, sustainability disclosure requirements and readiness, materiality assessments and relevant E&S risks and opportunities to craft sustainability-inclusive risk management frameworks, actionable transition plans and sustainability roadmaps.
Project Delivery & Stakeholder Management : Collaboratively manage project workstreams with other team members, coordinate data collection processes, ensure quality control and synthesize complex technical outputs into executive-ready reports, briefings, and presentations with clear articulation of approaches and methodologies deployed.
Cross-functional Collaboration & Commercial Enablement : Support regional leadership and commercial teams to drive business development through technical solutioning and drafting of client pitches and proposals.
Essential Qualifications:
Experience : More than 3 years of relevant experience in assessing climate risk, performing ESG analysis / advisory and/or executing corporate sustainability efforts and reporting with proven track record in project management and stakeholder management at multiple levels.
AI, Quantitative & Technical Innovation : Combine strong quantitative modeling and statistical thinking across financial and ESG datasets with hands-on Python programming, API integration, and agent development. Operating with an agile, entrepreneurial mindset, you will rapidly prototype, test, and deploy automated workflows and prompt-engineered solutions. Translating client delivery workflows and business requirements into scalable, market-ready AI capabilities.
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