Dalton Investments - Sustainability Analyst

Sustainability Analyst

Dalton Investments, a market leading Asian and emerging markets investment firm, is seeking candidates to join its growing sustainability team. This is an attractive opportunity to join an innovative and entrepreneurial asset manager to work alongside the firm's Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) to drive the firm's sustainability research, client reporting, and marketing efforts. The key role responsibilities include:

- Working with the CSO to complete due diligence on portfolio companies.

- Internal database management, where Excel and VBA proficiency are essential.

- Helping the firm's client service team to meet its sustainability reporting obligations.

- Assisting the investor relations team with marketing queries and Requests for Proposal.

- Aiding the CSO in enhancing voting and reporting policies and take a key role in their implementation.

- Building and maintaining a database of the firm's voting activity for client reporting purposes.

- Aiding the CSO in ensuring the implementation of the firm's sustainability policy.

The role will provide an opportunity to work closely with the firm's team of investment analysts to further develop the knowledge and skills across areas of sustainability research, while also working closely with our client service and marketing team.

Firm background

Dalton Investments is a disciplined, opportunistic, global investment management firm with expertise in Asia, Emerging Markets, and global equities. Headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Las Vegas, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney and Mumbai, Dalton manages over $3.8bn in actively managed long only and long/short strategies for pensions, endowments, foundations, financial institutions, and family offices.

Please visit www.daltoninvestments.com for more information, including the firm's current sustainability policy.

Dalton Investments offers competitive salary packages for its staff members. Compensation packages include a base salary, pension contributions, variable bonus compensation (linked to the long-term performance of the company), and over the long-term an opportunity to become a shareholder in the company. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we believe strongly that diversity leads to better decision-making, both in the management of our client portfolios and in the management of our business.

We believe that diversity should be considered in multiple dimensions: age, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, socio-economic background, education, work experience, religious views and more. Dalton has a highly diverse workforce, with 17 nationalities represented and 17 languages spoken. The composition of the firm's senior executives (including minority and female representation in the Chairman, CEO, CCO and CFO/COO roles) also reflects our commitment to diversity. However, we are conscious that we can always do more and are focused on sourcing diverse talent and challenging our internal biases.

The ideal candidate

- A passion for sustainable investing

- Three to five years' experience working within either the asset management, sustainability research, or investment consulting industries.

- A bachelor's degree or higher (preferably in a numerate discipline), post graduate qualifications such as the CFA Certificate in Sustainable investing are also welcomed.

- A working knowledge of key sustainability research developments and regulations e.g. Article 8, Principal Adverse Impact indicators, Taskforce for Climate Related Disclosures, Sustainability Accounting Standards.

- A basic understanding of climate transition and physical risk models.

- High proficiency in excel and visual basic. A working knowledge of Bloomberg, Refinitiv, MSCI ESG Research Manager, and python is desirable but not essential.

- Hard working and excellent at managing to tight deadlines.

- Self-sufficient and willing to work across multiple time zones and remotely.

- English is the working language of the company and therefore high proficiency in English is essential. Fluency in Chinese, Japanese or Korean will be viewed favourably.