ESG Data Analyst

at  Janus Henderson

Why work for us?
A career at Janus Henderson is more than a job, it’s about investing in a brighter future together.
Our Mission at Janus Henderson is to help clients define and achieve superior financial outcomes through differentiated insights, disciplined investments, and world-class service. We will do this by protecting and growing our core business, amplifying our strengths and diversifying where we have the right.
Our Values are key to driving our success, and are at the heart of everything we do:
Clients Come First - Always | Execution Supersedes Intention | Together We Win | Diversity Improves Results | Truth Builds Trust
If our mission, values, and purpose align with your own, we would love to hear from you!
Your opportunity
Janus Henderson’s approach to ESG and Responsibility focuses on (1) our own corporate responsibility, (2) integrating financially material ESG considerations across most of our investment strategies through ESG Explore and supporting key stakeholders including but not limited to the Investment Desks, Investment Compliance, Investment Risk, Client- and Regulatory reporting, Engagement & Research, and our distribution teams and (3) expanding our suite of ESG-focused strategies by supporting the ESG Solution teams.
The ESG Data and Analytics team under the ESG Strategy & Operations pillar of the Responsibility team helps enable investment teams to achieve superior financial outcomes through differentiated ESG analysis and generate proprietary data-driven investment insights.

You will:

• Create investment insights from ESG Data through statistical modelling and machine learning
• Assess, evaluate, and integrate new ESG Data Sets
• Partner with Investment desks to understand the systematic integration of ESG information in the investment strategy (e.g. through exclusionary screens, tilt commitments, or impact strategies)
• Documentation of the business requirements and translation into data requirements
• Support automating the end-to-end data lifecycle, including onboarding, normalizing new data points and aligning the appropriate methodology.
• Work closely with the Data Owner, Data Steward and Technology to provide consistent ESG information across downstream systems
• Understand data vendors’ methodologies for different products/tools and help investment desks to generate and interpret ESG data/reports
• Help the head of the team to analyze other vendors to fill potential data gaps (i.e., carbon modelling, impact measurement data, etc.)
• Carry out additional duties as assigned

What to expect when you join our firm

• Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations
• Generous Holiday policies
• Paid volunteer time to step away from your desk and into the community
• Support to grow through professional development courses, tuition/qualification reimbursement and more
• All-inclusive approach to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
• Maternal/paternal leave benefits and family services
• Complimentary subscription to Headspace – the mindfulness app
• Corporate membership to ClassPass and other health and well-being benefits
• All employee events
• Lunch allowance for use within subsidized onsite canteen

Must Have Skills

• Degree educated in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science or Quant discipline preferred
• Running SQL/Python/R queries over large data sets

Nice to Have Skills

• Studying towards IMC or CFA preferable
• Experience with 3rd Party ESG Data Providers like MSCI, Sustainalytics, VE
• Data Visualisation skills with tools like Power BI, Tableau
• Understanding of ESG Data Integration into Investment Portfolios
• Experience of Cloud based Data Warehousing systems like Snowflake

Potential for growth

• Mentoring
• Leadership development programs
• Regular training
• Career development services
• Continuing education courses

You will be expected to understand the regulatory obligations of the firm and abide by the regulated entity requirements and JHI policies applicable for your role.
At Janus Henderson Investors we’re committed to an inclusive and supportive environment. We believe diversity improves results and we welcome applications from all backgrounds. Don’t worry if you don’t think you tick every box, we still want to hear from you! We understand everyone has different commitments and while we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’re happy to be asked about work flexibility and our hybrid working environment. If you need any reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process, please get in touch and let us know at recruiter@janushenderson.com.

Please refer the Job description for details