Job Description
Job Purpose
Intercontinental Exchange is looking for a Senior Sustainable Finance Operation Associate to join our Sustainable Finance Operations team based in Hyderabad. The candidate's primary responsibility will be to update, analyse and interpret various ESG data sets. You will make recommendations pertaining to content development, process development and ESG best practices. You will liaise and collaborate with various stakeholders such as our training team, business analysts, data quality and customer support to improve the quality, completeness, timeliness, and breadth of the ESG data set.
Responsibilities
- Analyse, interpret, collate, and transform ESG data provided in a variety corporate social responsibility report, reference documents, third party reports and vendor information while ensuring that the reference data provided in ICE's products and services accurate, comprehensive and in a timely manner, namely best in class.
- Identify potential new sources of reference data to improve coverage, timeliness, and accuracy. Present analysis and recommendations for use of new source(s) to team senior managers.
- Make sound, subjective decisions when interpreting information by utilizing subject matter expertise to infer, deduce and ultimately draw the right conclusions!
- Provide customer support for users of ICE products by resolving inquiries in a timely manner.
- Identify trends and causation of inaccurate and/or incomplete data including, but not limited to, staying current with regulatory initiatives, new financing techniques used by the marketplace and organizations that impact coverage and completeness.
- Apply problem-solving skills to identify innovative work-flow efficiencies and process improvements resulting in increased accuracy levels, time to market and productivity.
- Help identify trends and causation of inaccurate and/or incomplete data.
- Participate in ad hoc projects to optimize processes and/or improve the quality of the data set.
- Create simple excel and macro functions to organize, analyse, convert, and create reference data.
- Mentor junior associates; provide guidance; serve as subject matter experts.
Knowledge And Experience
- MBA Finance or equivalent/higher qualification is required.
- A minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience.
- Knowledge of ESG content is preferred.
- Perform functions and work product autonomously and independently making the right subjective decisions for how to handle/describe content matters.
- Ability to work in a fast paced, high pressured, fluid environment.
- Ability to distil large amounts of varied information into specific takeaways.
- Excellent attention to detail and high degree of demonstrated decision-making and problem-solving skills.
- Eagerness to learn and collaborate with others.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Strong Excel skills required.
