Sustainable Finance (ESG) Director

Pacifica Continental • Monterrey, Nuevo Leon • 2d ago

Sustainable Finance (ESG) Director
Preferred location: Monterrey / Mexico City is also an option

Fitch Ratings is a leading provider of credit ratings, commentary and research. Dedicated to providing value beyond the rating through independent and prospective credit opinions, Fitch Ratings offers global perspectives shaped by strong local market experience and credit market expertise. The additional context, perspective and insights we provide have helped fund a century of growth and enables you to make important credit judgments with confidence.

Department Overview

Part of Fitch Ratings (and Fitch Group), the Sustainable Finance Group (SUF) is focused on research and analysis of ESG themes for companies and their debt instruments. The group currently has 4 primary teams, ESG Research, ESG Integration and Reporting, ESG Analytics (ratings), and ESG Product Development.
The department, currently composed by 25 professionals across London, NY and HK, with a varied background, is expanding to take on new activities.
Following the successful development of a ground breaking ESG Ratings product suite, SUF is looking to create a fifth team - the ESG Ratings team - to produce, monitor and maintain ESG ratings on debt instruments and entities.

Job Description

Fitch Sustainable Finance is looking for highly motivated and passionate analysts to be trained in the new ESG ratings suite capabilities and then to deliver quality research and analytical products to our clients worldwide.
The role entails the delivery of high-quality, timely, focused analysis on a suite of products related to the ESG credentials and performance of entities and fixed income issuances.
The person will work alongside peers in a team and be assigned a varied portfolio of companies and associated debt instruments to analyse and monitor. He or she will have to present and discuss internally (and externally) his/her findings and the related outputs. Knowledge and understanding of current Sustainability/ESG themes and standards is a key requirement for the role.
The position is in Mexico in Fitch’s Mexico offices, but currently due to Covid-19 employees are working remotely. Pre-pandemic Fitch already had flexible policies regarding working from home in place, and has therefore easily been able to transition to fully remote working whilst current conditions persist.

Desired Skills

The person will:

Have direct and in-depth knowledge (and expertise) of Environmental and/or Social and/or Governance themes for Corporates & Financial Institutions
Be curious and demonstrate an ability to rapidly assimilate knowledge and information, and then apply it to identify trends, themes, perform analysis and draw conclusions from data.
Have direct knowledge and/or experience of at least 1 specific industry sector (e.g. Energy, Building, Transportation, commercial banking).
Have a good understanding of how the fixed income and capital markets function, including some knowledge of bond and loan structures.
Be able to write concise reports and deliver analyses/research papers in Spanish and English.
Be a self-starter, with a focus for detail, execution, and workload prioritization.
Be resourceful, flexible and able to work independently in remote / WFH (under Covid-19) circumstances.
Able to cooperate seamlessly in a team based, international set-up, with a strong focus on common goals and objectives.
Able, and willing, to learn from mistakes as well as to provide and accept constructive criticism.

Qualifications/Requirements

The person will:

Be a graduate in a discipline with a technical background related to any of Environmental science, Social risk or Governance themed disciplines, or Economics/Business/Finance
Have at least +6 years work experience preferably in a research or analytical environment
Be financially literate and comfortable working with and drawing conclusions from data
Have good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Powerpoint, Excel, Word, Access)
Be fluent in English (written and spoken). Detailed knowledge of an additional language such as Portuguese will be beneficial.
Candidate can be located either in Monterrey or Mexico City.