ESG Associate

Symbiotics is the leading market access platform for impact investing, dedicated to private markets in emerging and frontier economies. The group offers investments, asset management and capacity building services.
Symbiotics Investments focuses on loan origination and bond issuance. It currently employs 100 people and is headquartered in Geneva, with offices in London, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Singapore, Cape Town, New Delhi and Yerevan. Our affiliates in London and Amsterdam are both regulated entities, with relevant investment firm licenses for the United Kingdom and the European Union respectively.
Since 2005, Symbiotics Investments has originated 7,800 investments representing more than USD 10 billion for 590 companies in 96 countries.
We are a fast-growing, market-leading company, offering a dynamic work environment in the growing impact investment space. Our people are our biggest competitive advantage.
We believe that in order to recruit the best professionals all applications must be reviewed equally. For this reason, we will not require personal data such as photos, date of birth or gender to be included on CV applications.

We are looking for

A motivated graduate to join the Market & Credit Risk (“MCR”) business unit of Symbiotics Investments, in charge of assisting the team in the tasks related to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risks assessment and monitoring of institutions, as well as positive impact reporting. Investees are mostly composed of financial institutions in emerging markets, but there is a growing number of corporate, project finance, asset-backed, trade or agri-focused and structured finance transactions. The position is full-time (part-time could be envisaged) with reporting line to the E&S Impact Specialist. The position is based in our office in Amsterdam. Other locations where Symbiotics has a representative office could also be considered, as well as candidates located in the EU and providing services through a consultancy agreement.
In addition, you’ll also be supporting the Market & Credit Risk business unit upon necessity.

About the Job

• Participate in the development, implementation and management of methodologies and processes related to (i) the environmental and social risks of investees, and to (ii) SDG allocation, green loans, sustainable bonds and impact reporting.
• Building and consolidating annual key performance indicators (KPIs) reports
• Provide support in training the front office specialists on ESG rating methodology and analysis;
• Research on ESG & Impact industry best-practices, such as GHG emission calculations and GenderAct as main point of contact on the GHG emissions proxy tool (JIM); and RepRisk
• Assist the ESG Impact Specialist in preparation of the Client specific annual E&S reporting/ impact reports.
• In charge of SFDR related ESG reporting (PAIs); Development of a digital application for ESG assessment
• Project management: it will be required to participate in different kinds of ESG – related projects