About us

Asset Impact (AI) is an impact-driven climate start-up. Our vision is of a financial system that sets the global economy on a path to net zero emissions. We are a specialist provider of climate data and analytics used by financial institutions to achieve emissions reductions in the real economy. Our asset-based data and analytics cover the most carbon-intensive sectors of the global economy and map more than 250,000 physical assets across nine industry sectors – linked to more than 60,000 listed and private companies – to issued securities.

Our clients, mostly financial institutions, include large global organizations such as the 1,000+ financial institutions applying the PACTA tool, Barclays for its BlueTrack^TM tool, ING for its Terra climate approach, and PwC for its Climate Excellence Tool.

AI was established in 2018 in Paris, and works globally. We became part of GRESB, the leading ESG benchmark for real estate and infrastructure investments, in 2022 after spinning off from the 2° Investing Initiative, an innovative international think tank working to align financial markets with climate goals. We are expanding rapidly to support the growing needs of financial institutions as they embark on their journey to decarbonization.

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About this position

We are looking for an enthusiastic Climate Data Analyst Intern to join our team. If you’re someone who is passionate about sustainable finance, embraces a start-up mentality, and is excited to take on new challenges, we’d love to hear from you. We offer the opportunity to contribute to the world of ESG data, learn about data analysis applied to sectors key to the climate transition, and experience the growth phase of a start-up.

Responsibilities

Your primary responsibility will be to assist the Asset Impact Data Team, with frequent interactions with the Product and Business teams. You will make direct contributions to the development of our data and analytics. Depending on your profile and interests, you will:

• Research commercial and open-source physical asset data providers and data sources to help improve the coverage and quality of Asset Impact’s climate data.
• Conduct quality assurance (QA)and quality control (QC) checks of our data and climate indicators.
• Support the onboarding of raw data into Asset Impact’s proprietary database.
• Support the development of new products, metrics and methodologies in collaboration with the Asset Impact Product Team (e.g. financed emissions, scenario analysis).
• Analyze corporate, climate and financial data and prepare responses to clients’ queries on Asset Impact’s data products.
• Support the Data Team in any part of the Asset Impact data workflow.

Required skills and experience

• Experience summarizing technical information into concise texts for a general audience.
• Knowledge of sustainability and sustainable finance.
• Cleaning and analyzing data with code, and proficiency with R, or Python for data analysis and manipulation. Proficiency with SQL (or knowledge of relational databases) is a plus.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Fluency in English.

Mindset

• Passion for sustainability and data.
• Interest in learning about climate-critical sectors such as power generation, oil and gas extraction, transport, etc.
• Desire to work in an international start-up.
• Enthusiasm and motivation!

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Why join us?

• A paid internship lasting 4-6 months with a potential transition to a full-time role.
• An opportunity to work with and learn from an international team of data scientists, analysts, sustainable finance specialists, and developers passionate about the climate transition.
• Exposure to the latest tools and methodologies in tech and sustainability.
• A rapidly growing organization with a lot of opportunities to get hands-on experience, make your voice heard and help shape our future.
• A mission that brings together technology and impact.
• Flexibility in terms of working hours and location.
• Offices in the centers of Paris and Berlin.

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Application process

We are recruiting for this position on a rolling basis. Please apply here. We want motivated candidates – no need to tick all the skills and experience boxes! Phone interviews will be organized with shortlisted candidates, followed by a case-study and a final interview with the leadership team.

We are looking for student interns (“stage de fin d’études”) in France in our Paris office or working students (“Werkstudierendenstatus”) in Germany in our Berlin office.

Asset Impact is proud to be an equal opportunity workspace.

Find out more at https://asset-impact.gresb.com/.

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