About this role
Overview
The Analyst is a core member of the Stewardship team and reports directly to the Director of Stewardship at Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC). You will work as part of a six-member team (two of which are sector specialists)who is responsible for coordinating collaborative, systems-level engagement to achieve real world climate outcomes through company-level decarbonisation.
In this role, you will be responsible for conducting corporate transition plan analysis for selected companies and specific industrial sectors. Your analysis will actively drive regional corporate engagement activities, interactive workshops and high-impact investor roundtables, providing the essential research required to inform institutional investors’ stewardship strategies across Asia.
Note: This position requires professional flexibility in working hours to accommodate international meetings occurring outside of standard working hours. Some traveling across major Asian financial markets is expected for convening flagship events, investor roadshows and corporate engagement dialogues.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Provide administrative and technical support for engagement meetings organised via various investor engagement programs.
• Deliver consistent, structured progress updates to the Director of Stewardship, proactively recommending relevant stewardship tools and interventions to accelerate company engagements.
• Organise, facilitate and synthesize technical workshops, working groups and roundtable discussions to establish regional best practice benchmarks.
• Co-ordinate structured thematic research regarding corporate transition strategies, sector pathways, capital allocation, climate governance, corporate policy engagement, physical risk and resilience and just transition frameworks.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with AIGCC market leads, sector experts and global investor networks as appropriate.
We are looking for candidates ready to self-initiate internal projects with a desire to work in a mission-driven not-for-profit environment.
Core Requirements
• Educational Background: Undergraduate degree in a relevant field such as Finance, Economics, Corporate Management, Sustainability, or Environmental Science
• Professional Experience: A minimum of 3 years in corporate financial analysis, responsible investment, equities analysis or economic research tracking climate or environmental matters.
• Project Ownership: Demonstrated ability to autonomously champion internal projects from concept, and project design to final delivery
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Proven experience collaborating effectively with partners, global coalitions, specialised consultants to deliver shared project outcomes.
Desirable Skills and Attributes
• Language Proficiency: Professional fluency in a major Asian language (such as Chinese, Korean, or Japanese) is highly advantageous to support regional company dialogues, though not a strict requirement.
• Communication Excellence: Outstanding professional writing capabilities and high-confidence verbal presentation skills tailored for institutional financial audiences.
• Operational Agility: Highly self-motivated, mission-driven individual comfortable operating with high autonomy within distributed or remote team environments.
• AI Literacy & Tool Fluency: Practical experience utilizing advanced AI tools, prompt engineering techniques, or large language models to optimize workflows and scale operational output.
About AIGCC
Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC) is Asia’s leading member-based advocacy and investor engagement organisation focused on the financial, economic and investment implications of climate change. AIGCC is an initiative to create awareness and encourage action among Asia’s asset owners and financial institutions about the risks and opportunities associated with climate change and low carbon investing. AIGCC provides capacity and a trusted forum for investors active in Asia to share best practice and to collaborate on investment activity, credit analysis, risk management, engagement and policy related to climate change.
AIGCC’s 80+ members come from 11 different markets in Asia and internationally and include asset owners and managers with a combined AUM of over US$35 trillion. With a strong international profile, the AIGCC network also engages with government pension and sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and endowments, AIGCC represents the Asian investor perspective in the evolving global discussions on climate change and the transition to a net-zero emissions economy.
Working at AIGCC
AIGCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate against any individual based on race, colour, sex, national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any factors prohibited by applicable law.
AIGCC empowers employees with flexible work and encourages work/life balance with a range of benefits including: 20 days annual leave, birthday leave, 3 days of recharge leave during Christmas and New Year, study leave of up to 5 days and an Employee Assistance Program.