Sustainable Finance Intern

Group Sustainability department is divided in three units:
(i) Sustainable Investment
(ii) Sustainable Insurance
(iii) Corporate Sustainability.

Sustainable Investment team is responsible for defining the sustainable investment policy to apply while managing the portfolio of SCOR invested assets. As an institutional investor SCOR is determined to play its part in participating to the well-being and resilience of society notably by preserving natural capital.

The internship will take place within the Sustainable Investment team to support existing and new research topics.

The objective is to study subjects and methodologies linked to sustainable development and to sustainable finance and to apply these to the investment portfolio. Themes are particularly linked to climate change biodiversity and human rights and may be translated by an analysis of opportunities and risks a study of impacts and dependencies and their materiality These tasks lead to elaborating extra-financial reports and need in that aim to collect ESG (Environmental Social Governance) data and/or to develop extra-financial indicators.

The intern is also responsible of a monitoring activity regarding sustainable finance topics.

The subjects delt with by the intern vary depending on periods of time. As an example it could be studies on carbon or biodiversity footprints or sectorial analyses linked to a specific ESG problematic.

Required experience &competencies

You have good knowledge in market finance and on environmental and social problematics. A former professional experience linked to those subjects would be appreciated but is not mandatory.

You are proficient in Excel VBA and ideally Python and SQL. Having used these tools in a professional context would be appreciated but is not mandatory.

Your English level allows you to evolve in an English-speaking environment. French would be appreciated but is not mandatory.

Rigor autonomy intellectual curiosity sense of initiative and a very good relational are qualities sought after.

Required Education

You wish to supplement your higher education training (business school engineering school or post-graduate with ideally a finance specialisation) with an internship within the sustainability team of a listed company.

This position is expected to be filled in September.