Consultant or Senior Consultant (depending on experience)

Downtown Montreal

Financial & Investment Funds | Finance | #3875

Permanent | French

Differentiating elements

Autonomy & Latitude
Corporate Environment
Flexibility & Quality of Life
Growing Environment
Key Role with High Added Value
Mission with Constructive Impact
Teamwork

About the employer

Power Sustainable is a climate-focused alternative asset manager with over $4 billion in assets under management. Its private market investment strategies - in infrastructure, private equity and private credit - finance companies and projects that support decarbonization, the development of resilient communities or energy and resource efficiency.

Benefits

Key role within the Sustainable Investment team, a function central to Power Sustainable's mission - Excellent opportunity to work in a range of sustainability-related roles and learn in a rapidly evolving field - Start-up within an established financial company - Warm and cooperative work environment - Good work-life balance between rewarding professional challenges and quality of life - Opportunities for advancement.

Your responsibilities in a few words!

Support and collaborate with investment teams to ensure proper integration of sustainability issues into investment processes (analysis of value creation opportunities and ESG risks, including climate risks) – Conduct in-depth analyses of economic and industrial activities to assess their compatibility with the decarbonization of the economy – Dialog with portfolio companies to enhance their practices – Participate in the disclosure of information on the firm’s sustainability and its investment strategies to a wide range of external stakeholders through questionnaires (UNPRI, SASB, TCFD) or meetings with investors and other stakeholders – Participate in the development of sustainable investment policies and strategies – Contribute to the development of content, including the company’s annual sustainability report.

Your assets for this position!

- Minimum 5 years' relevant experience in sustainable investment, consulting or sustainability management
- Undergraduate university degree, ideally followed by a Master's degree, in finance, sustainable development, environmental studies, engineering, law or a combination of equivalent studies
- Experience of working with investment teams, ideally in infrastructure and private placements
- Knowledge of climate issues and carbon footprint calculation
- Understanding of investment decision-making processes
- Knowledge of the main sustainability frameworks

Summary

An ideal opportunity: for anyone motivated by the desire to participate in the development of climate solutions. We’re looking for a rigorous professional with good analytical skills and the ability to simplify complex issues; someone with tact, interpersonal skills and the ability to influence decision-makers; an agile professional who can work to tight deadlines when the situation calls for it; someone with a sense of organization and priorities; and finally, someone who enjoys working in a team.