CareEdge - Lead Analyst/Assistant Director - ESG Advisory

CARE Advisory - Lead Analyst/Assistant Director - Mumbai

CARE Advisory Research and Training Limited (CareEdge Advisory) :

CareEdge Advisory is a wholly owned subsidiary of CARE Ratings Limited, India's leading ratings agency, and offers services in the areas of Corporate Advisory, Project Evaluation & Monitoring, ESG, Credit Analytics, Customized Industry and Company Research, Due Diligence and Gradings. CareEdge Advisory provides credible, high-quality research and analytics to Corporates, Financials Institutions, Banks and Institutional Investors with business solutions which are tailored made, pragmatic and practically implementable.

Position Purpose:

- Role requires the person to develop and maintain ESG product / service and support the relationship teams.

- The role requires candidate to work in environment with diversity of work, and someone who embraces to work both independently and in teams.

- Candidate should have research and analytical bent of mind to understand and make use of various research reports on ESG topics and can incorporate the knowledge & understanding in development of products and services.

- The role requires the candidate to demonstrate the high degree of problem-solving capacity and ability to come up with innovative solutions.

- Strong knowledge on concepts like ESG, climate change, ESG assessment, frameworks, reporting standards and regulations.

Key Responsibilities:

- Awareness about ESG and sustainability disclosures by companies - GRI, CDP, TCFD, BRSR etc.

- Candidate should be aware about key environment, social and governance aspects that can be identified and factored into the company analysis.

- Prepare high quality case profiles based on the analysis undertaken on companies. Thus, role requires excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) and strong conviction skills.

- Ability to develop ESG strategy, metrics, KPIs, policies and sustainability reporting.

- Partner with across teams on various ESG assessments, including developing proposals, tracking and applying to tenders and engage with companies on various ESG related deliverables.

Ideal candidate should have knowledge/ awareness about following:

- Knowledge on ESG, key developments around it and awareness on upcoming regulations.

- ESG reporting standards domestic and global.

- Good writing skills. Candidate should be able to write crisp and effective summary of findings in research report.

- Basic to intermediate Microsoft Excel and PPT skills.

Education and Experience:

- Master's degree in related discipline (environment and/or social sciences, energy management, sustainability, engineering, or related fields).

- Bachelor's qualification in environment or sustainability areas.

- Previous work experience in below areas ESG consulting and advisory, ESG assessment & research publication.