Climate Operations Specialist
Job Summary
Lets be #BrilliantTogether
ISS Stoxx Climate Team is working closely with its clients to help them with risk analysis and is looking for passionate team members to work extensively on climate products. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring robust operational processes documentation standards audit readiness and effective implementation of methodology and regulatory changes across the climate business.
Responsibilities:
Act as the central point of coordination between climate teams internal stakeholders and auditors to support successful audit execution and remediation activities.
Work closely with teams supporting a broad portfolio of climate products methodologies and related services.
Serve as a primary coordinator for SOC audit activities and related control frameworks.
Support controls testing evidence collection audit preparation and remediation tracking.
Coordinate responses to audit requests and maintain supporting documentation throughout the audit cycle.
Coordinate activities across research methodology product technology information security development and audit functions to ensure effective governance and control execution.
Drive operational excellence across Climate products services and methodologies through effective process management and continuous improvement initiatives by supporting consistent use of operational tools such as Jira and Confluence.
Maintain and promote best practices for documentation workflows and operational controls across the Climate organization.
Establish and maintain documentation standards across Climate products methodologies and operational processes in close collaboration with broader ISS Stoxx initiatives.
Ensure methodologies process documentations FAQs and related materials remain current accurate and appropriately maintained by the responsible team leads.
Coordinate periodic reviews of operational documentation and ensure clear ownership of key documents.
Identify opportunities to improve efficiency scalability and data quality through automation and process optimization.
Required Qualifications:
A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in governance operational excellence audit coordination process management compliance business operations PMO documentation management or related functions.
Relevant masters degree (environmental scienceenvironmental engineering economics climate change studies etc.).
Familiarity or demonstrated interest in Climate ESG Sustainability Sustainable Finance or related domains. Previous experience supporting climate or ESG-related products services or operational processes
Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
Excellent command of Excel and good working knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications
Integrityorganizational skills high attention to detail a self-driven work ethic and the ability to prioritize multiple tasks in a high-pressure deadline-driven environment.
Willingness to work with a highly collaborative flexible and innovative team across different locations.
Regular work hours with slight flexibility to collaborate with colleagues and clients in different time zones.
Demonstrated ability to work independently take ownership of initiatives and successfully manage priorities with limited supervision.
Preferred Qualifications:
Exposure to Python automation tools AI tools workflow automation or other technologies supporting process improvement
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What You Can Expect from Us
At ISS STOXX our people are our driving force. We are committed to building a culture that values diverse skills perspectives and experiences. We hire the best talent in our industry and empower them with the resources support and opportunities to growprofessionally and personally.
Together we foster an environment that fuels creativity drives innovation and shapes our future success.
Lets empower collaborate and inspire.
Lets be #BrilliantTogether.
About ISS STOXX
ISS STOXX GmbH is a leading provider of research and technology solutions for the financial market. Established in 1985 we offer top-notch benchmark and custom indices globally helping clients identify investment opportunities and manage portfolio risks. Our services cover corporate governance sustainability cyber risk and fund intelligence. Majority-owned by Deutsche Börse Group ISS STOXX has over 3400 professionals in 33 locations worldwide serving around 6400 clients including institutional investors and companies focused on ESG cyber and governance risk. Clients trust our expertise to make informed decisions for their stakeholders benefit.
ISS Sustainability Solutionsenable investors to develop and integrate sustainable investing policies and practices engage on responsible investment issues and monitor portfolio company practices through screening solutions. ISS Sustainability Solutionsalso provides climate data analytics and advisory services to help financial market participants understand measure and act on climate-related risks across all asset addition our solutionscover corporate and country ESG research and ratings enabling its clients to identify material social and environmental risks and opportunities.
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) is committed to fostering cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. It is our policy to prohibit discrimination or harassment against any applicant or employee on the basis of race color ethnicity creed religion sex age height weight citizenship status national origin social origin sexual orientation gender identity or gender expression pregnancy status marital status familial status mental or physical disability veteran status military service or status genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law (referred to as protected status). All activities including but not limited to recruiting and hiring recruitment advertising promotions performance appraisals training job assignments compensation demotions transfers terminations (including layoffs) benefits and other terms conditions and privileges of employment are and will be administered on a non-discriminatory basis consistent with all applicable federal state and local requirements.
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