Stewarship Analyst

Job description

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Job Purpose

Our aim is to play a key role in financing the transition to a greener and more sustainable world. Part of that involves encouraging companies in their transition journey through stewardship and focused shareholder engagement. This is a central pillar of responsible investment at AXA IM, and we therefore continuously review ways to make our stewardship strategy as efficient and impactful as possible.

There are three essential ways to do this: clear objectives communicated to management; regular meetings to verify and evaluate progress and voting with conviction or pursuing other escalation techniques when required.

Our stewardship activities and active dialogue with companies allows us to effectively monitor our investments, and ensure we maintain open channels which can enable change to the benefit of society, the planet – and ultimately our clients.

The Stewardship Analyst will play an important role in implementing AXA IM’s stewardship strategy.

To apply, visit www.careers.axa.com

Key Accountabilities

• Contribute to the implementation of AXA IM Stewardship efforts, including in the context of the Label ISR. The analyst will be expected to perform ESG analysis of issuers, prepare engagement letters, follow-up on progress including with meetings with the engaged companies with colleagues. The analyst will work closely with other RI specialists in this context.
• Contribute to the monitoring of stewardship efforts led by the multiple teams involved across AXA IM. The analyst will help monitor effective definition of engagement objectives, tracking of progress, and contribute to discussing potential need for escalation in certain cases. He/ she will help prepare updates to governance bodies on those efforts.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Role Requirements

Education/Qualifications

·  Masters degree relating to finance, corporate law, or sustainability.

Experience

·  Experience in ESG analysis is necessary, having experience in engagement would be appreciated.
·  Communication skills to liaise with colleagues and investee companies
·  Demonstrable interest in wider responsible investment and ESG issues.

Knowledge and Skills

·  Project management and organisational skills
·  Experience of Microsoft Office tools (including Excel) is required
·  First experience either in an advisory agency or an asset management firm
·  Excellent communications skills - written and verbal
·  Proven ability to work collaboratively in a team-based environment.
·  Demonstrable interest in wider responsible investment and ESG issues
·  Language skills: Proficient in English. French would be a plus.
·  Knowledge of data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI) would be a plus.