About the Role
Climate Solutions, a unit within ISS STOXX's Sustainability business, provides data, analytics, and advisory services to help investors understand, measure, and act on climate-related risks and opportunities. The team is seeking passionate members to work extensively on climate products, ensuring robust operational processes, documentation standards, audit readiness, and effective implementation of methodology and regulatory changes.
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.
Requirements
- 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 master’s degree (environmental science, environmental 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.
- Integrity, organizational 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.
Skills
- Python
- Automation tools
- AI tools
- Workflow automation
- Excel
- Microsoft Office applications
Location
- 33 locations worldwide
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Mid-Senior
Education Level
- Master's degree
Benefits
- Resources, support, and opportunities to grow—professionally and personally.
About the Company
- ISS STOXX GmbH is a leading provider of research and technology solutions for the financial market, established in 1985.
- They offer benchmark and custom indices globally, assisting clients with investment opportunities and portfolio risk management.
- Services cover corporate governance, sustainability, cyber risk, and fund intelligence.
- Majority-owned by Deutsche Börse Group, ISS STOXX has over 3,400 professionals in 33 locations worldwide, serving around 6,400 clients.
- ISS Sustainability Solutions enable investors to develop and integrate sustainable investing policies and practices, engage on responsible investment issues, and monitor portfolio company practices through screening solutions.
- These solutions also provide climate data, analytics, and advisory services to help financial market participants understand, measure, and act on climate-related risks across all asset classes.
- Additionally, their solutions cover corporate and country ESG research and ratings, enabling clients to identify material social and environmental risks and opportunities.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
