Climate Data Analyst - Energy Sector Specialist

Your Team Responsibilities

MSCI Climate Data team provides high quality and differentiated Climate data for construction of MSCI’s products such as ESG Ratings, Equity Indexes, Risk Models

The Analyst will be responsible for 1) managing the content and data sets related to companies within the domains of Energy industry that are mainly used by MSCI’s ESG business, 2) working on data methodology enhancements and discussions with Internal committees.

The candidate is expected to be familiar with facets of the Energy (Oil & Gas) industry and has a general knowledge about emerging Sustainability data trends and new accounting regulations and governing standards.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Analysis of the company level data points and metrics from consolidated financial statements of companies, Annual reports, CSR reports, etc.
• Procuring and processing information about globally listed companies such as:
  • Using multiple sources: lengthy annual reports, CSR reports, websites, quantitative data feeds, web crawlers
  • Types of information: quantitative data, key performance indicators
  • Topics or subject matters: traditional financial risk, corporate governance and sustainability
  • Types of analysis: rules-based, subjective analysis, written summaries
• Interpret data methodologies and ensure data is delivered as per standard guidelines
• Capturing and transforming raw data into meaningful information on company’s exposures
• Work closely with Internal committees as well as MSCI ESG Researchers to propose changes to the data methodologies to align it as per industry trends
• Establish, review, and monitor production processes, including the management of 3rd-party providers & vendor escalations
• Develop KPIs to measure platform usage and quality standards and to identify areas to target for improvement

Your skills and experience that will help you excel

• Minimum 1-2 years of relevant working experience (Industry type: Oil & Gas sector - specifically in the upstream value chain (Exploration, Production, Drilling, Reservoir), Oil and Gas market research
• Degree in Oil and Gas e.g. B.E., B.Tech, M.Tech in upstream Oil and Gas
• Good to have knowledge about midstream and downstream Oil and Gas processes
• Knowledge on equities, fixed income or financial markets in general will be an added advantage
• Strong analytical skills, ability to quickly process large amounts of data and information
• Ability to motivate, mentor, and develop team members.
• Strong and effective communication and presentation skills.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, Power Point, etc.)
• Basic knowledge of data visualization applications such as Power BI/Tableau and Python/SQL