Esg Research Associate

1 week ago


Singapore Preqin Full time

Overview:
**The Company**:
Preqin is an award-winning, independent, research company providing data and intelligence to the financial industry. Investment professionals use Preqin’s online products to obtain key information for business-critical decision-making. Preqin’s clients include fund managers, legal firms, institutional investors, financial advisors and placement agents.

Primarily a data company; Preqin is also a fast-moving fintech with a strong growth record and a world-wide staff base. Owned by our founder, directors and employee shareholders, we care passionately about our customers, brand and the employees that make it all happen.

**Team Overview**:
The ESG Research Team commits to delivering exceptional quality ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) data to the Alternatives Investment Industry.

This team member will work closely with our global ESG team as well as those from other departments such as our platform and client management teams to ensure the success and development of Preqin's ESG Module, which will offer a unique opportunity to provide meaningful ESG information to an emerging market of investors with ESG considerations.

**Responsibilities**:
**Role Overview**:
As ESG is an emerging product, the role will be quite dynamic. The daily responsibilities involve data qualify management and management of client enquires.

Data Qualify Management involves the compilation and quality checking of data received from our ESG data collection team, as well as regular discussions with the global ESG Team on how to improve our data standards and methodology. This will involve collaboration with our platform development team as well as our sales and client services teams.

Client enquires management involves handling daily inbound queries by our end-user clients (Funds, Institutional Investors etc) about our ESG data. The ESG Research Associate will need to explain to them our data methodology, answer any uncertainties they have about the data and review then upload any ESG relevant documentation that our clients wish to submit for their organizations’ ESG profile. On an adhoc/project basis, this will also involve collaboration with our insights and analysis teams to produce custom reports and analysis for clients using our ESG datasets.

**Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Responsible for ESG data
- Ensure quality management of large data sets collected by our data collection team
- Work collaboratively with the team to create and enforce guidance to maintain best-in-class datasets
- Generate bespoke data requests and contribute to analysis/reports both internally and externally
- Interact with clients
- Strong communication skills to discuss methodology and developments of Sustainability module
- Handle data inquiries, requests, disputes from product users
- Collaborating with our Sales team to ensure streamlined approach with Preqin clients

Qualifications:
**Key Requirements for this Role**:

- Bachelor’s degree required (ESG relevant degree, Economics or Finance specialisation is preferred)
- About 1 year of professional experience, which may be in the form of an internship
- Experience working with large, complex databases preferred.
- Excellent research abilities; exhibiting persistence, patience and a keen eye for detail
- Articulate and able to explain complex methodologies
- Proactive approach to dealing with issues, investigating anomalies and a desire to get to the bottom of a problem
- A collegial work style and a willingness to perform a wide range of tasks
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively
- Detail-oriented, ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced environment

**Desirable Requirements**:

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**ESG and Alternatives sector knowledge preferred

Other:
**Company Benefits**:

- Competitive starting salary in addition to a discretionary annual performance incentive.
- Medical and dental benefits
- 21 days holiday
- Flexi Benefits - Health and Wellness incentives
- Structured professional development and internal mobility programme
- We also sponsor employees to undertake professional training or to gain qualifications relevant to their career

**Our Company Values**:
At Preqin we’re driven by our values: everything we do is in line with the six guiding principles we have set for ourselves.
- ** Quality Data and Solutions, Comprehensive Coverage**:Preqin is the first port of call for alternatives data, research and tools.
- ** Customer Centricity**:Our customers are the central focus of Preqin.
- ** Objectivity**:Preqin is data led and impartial.
- ** Innovation**:Preqin sits at the forefront of the dynamic alternatives industry.
- ** Collaboration**: Effective communication is essential to our success.
- ** Personal Development**:Our business is built as much on our people as it is on our data and solutions.

**Our Shared Culture**:
Preqin is a fast-growing company, but we are passionate about keeping an entrepreneurial spirit at the heart of


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