Sustainability Research Analyst
Beschreibung
Lombard Odier Group is a renowned global wealth and asset manager headquartered in Geneva, with a strong focus on sustainable investing. The independently owned firm is one of the best-capitalised banking groups in the world, managing close to CHF 300 billion across more than 25 offices on 4 continents. With over 230 years of history, Lombard Odier offers discretionary and advisory portfolio management, wealth services, custody, asset management, and advanced banking technology. Its philosophy, "Rethink Everything," drives a fresh investment perspective underpinned by five core values: Excellence, Innovation, Respect, Integrity, and One Team. Assess companies and labelled debt instruments against the firm's proprietary sustainable investment framework using company disclosures, third-party sustainability data, and other external sources; author written assessments for internal and client-facing use. Contribute to the continued development of qualitative framework criteria through sector and value chain research, and support improvements to data-driven criteria using external datasets and internal tools. Monitor developments in sustainability regulation, standards, frameworks, and emerging sustainability themes. Work with investment teams and internal stakeholders to explain assessment outputs, support new investment ideas, and respond to sustainability-related due diligence or client requests. Contribute to improving workflows and documentation related to the sustainable investment framework, including through AI-enabled workflows. Generate research insights and collaborate with the investment stewardship team on company engagement. Degree or postgraduate qualification in sustainability, environmental science, public policy or a related field; sustainability-focused professional experience may substitute for a sustainability-specific academic background. Prior experience in sustainability/ESG research, sustainability consulting, sustainable finance, or sustainable capital markets. Demonstrated experience analysing companies, sectors, business models and corporate disclosures from a sustainability-related risks, opportunities and impacts perspective. Strong understanding of environmental and social sustainability issues, frameworks, certifications and standards. Intellectual curiosity and ability to think conceptually about the intersections of financial markets, corporate performance, and environmental and social issues. Comfort with ambiguity and making judgments with incomplete or imperfect data. Ability to interpret and organise complex qualitative and quantitative information and to work independently. Preferred: knowledge of social sustainability topics; experience with ESG/investment data platforms and analytics tools; familiarity with data analytics, AI tools and sustainability data; knowledge of sustainable finance regulations (SFDR, EU Taxonomy, CSRD, UK SDR); experience working with investment teams; familiarity with ESG data providers such as MSCI, Sustainalytics, and Bloomberg. The opportunity to work within the Sustainable Investing team of a globally recognised wealth and asset management firm with over 230 years of history. The role offers scope to take ownership of specific workstreams over time related to the framework's development and implementation. Lombard Odier promotes a diverse and inclusive work environment, supports internal mobility and individual upskilling programmes, and is committed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as a core business strategy. All applications are handled with strict confidentiality.