Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs Alternatives - ESG Infrastructure Analyst London 

United Kingdom, England, London 

738895693

Divisional Overview

Role Overview & Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities

• Manage ESG data collection and analysis
  • Work with the Sustainability & Impact (“S&I”) team to manage data collection from portfolio companies including performing quality assurance and quality control of received data
  • Work with infrastructure portfolio companies to onboard ESG data tools for GS reporting requirements including – GHG calculation and ESG data collection tools
  • Create project analytics and maintain dashboards/basic ESG data summaries, year-over-year trends, etc. – at the portfolio company and fund levels
  • Work with the S&I data team and ESG data vendor to create new dashboards and analytics for portfolio company and fund level data
  • Work with the ESG Business Unit Lead to accurately reflect data within various regulatory, voluntary and client reports
• Assist in AWM Private Infrastructure sustainability reporting, including:
  • SFDR, GRESB, TCFD, Infrastructure Sustainability Report, UN PRI content creation and management of cross-divisional review/comment integration
  • Partnering with internal ACMS teams to answer client ESG data requests
  • Work with deal teams on the creation of ESG case studies and program highlights for reporting and marketing initatives
• ESG project management and initiative tracking, including:
  • Coordinating with deal teams and portfolio companies on ESG post-closing action plans
  • Decarbonization planning and portfolio company GHG emissions tracking
  • Portfolio company specific ongoing ESG risk monitoring and value-creation initiatives
• Work with the Infrastructure ESG Business Unit Lead to build out and update ESG tools and communications materials
  • ESG Guidebooks and Toolkits
  • ESG Materiality Tools, DD checklists, Quarterly ESG Value Creation Scorecards
  • ESG training materials for Asset Managers and Portfolio Companies
  • Case studies for client meetings and marketing materials
• Engage with vendors / relationship management
  • Support VPs and/or own external relationships with vendors that enable the ESG program to scale
  • Host and/or join introductory vendor meetings to assess fit
  • Own and manage strategic partnerships through regular meetings to stay up to date on latest vendor happenings and project updates
  • Identify new vendors and partnerships, screen, vet, and propose to team
• Project coordination and stakeholder management
  • Work with ESG Business Lead to gain in-depth knowledge of ESG philosophy, programs, and process
  • Assist in the preparation of monthly leadership and weekly team updates
  • Collaborate with portfolio companies, deal teams, and ESG Business Lead to surface/strategize and implement ESG risk mitigation and value creation initiatives across investing verticals – energy transition, transport and logistics, essential services and digital infrastructure
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to advance ESG objectives and the various internal groups involved in execution. This includes working cross divisionally with Legal and the AWM S&I team to make process revisions, modifications to docs, create/amend policies and agreements, and manage vendor management office requirements

Desired Qualifications

• 2-3 years of ESG program/project management consulting, data management and analysis, and/or reporting experience
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Ability to create and format a presentation (in PowerPoint and other applications) with a high-quality and professional appearance
• Comfortable working within Excel
• Highly organized, self-motivated, and strong attention to detail
• Effective and responsive communication with the ability to manage internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to prioritize workload and proactively resolves task/project ambiguity; sense of urgency
• Interest in ESG, sustainability, and/or climate change