Data Analyst at Asset Impact - Berlin

This job description is for a position at Asset Impact (AI), an impact-driven climate-data company that has been part of GRESB since 2022​.

We are looking for a skilled Data Analyst to join our team who is passionate about sustainability and loves to analyze complex data sources and improve data-related processes. This person should embrace a start-up mentality and be excited to take on new challenges as we discover them.

Responsibilities

As a Data Analyst, you'll leverage your analytical expertise to interpret data and uncover insights that drive our quality control processes, ensuring the accurate integration and communication of findings. You will also coordinate data provider feedback tracking and name-matching processes, ensuring data accuracy and smooth workflow during the refresh of our database. Additionally, you'll respond to client queries and contribute to business development or research efforts as needed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Use your analytical skills to interpret data and generate insights that support decision-making across the Data, Client Support, and Product teams.
• Support different stages of the quarterly database refresh process, focusing on checking and ensuring the quality of our data (quality assurance and control).
• Coordinate, refine, and enhance our name-matching process, ensuring accuracy and consistency, including playing a pivotal role in improving the workflow to maintain high data quality.
• Collaborate closely with data providers to improve the data quality. This includes researching and tracking client’s feedback on our data, reviewing and consolidating the feedback collected by the rest of the team, sharing this feedback with providers, and ensuring the feedback is implemented.
• Prepare and review data products for clients, ensuring they meet their specific requirements and expectations.
• Respond effectively to client queries, providing clear and actionable responses. This often involves linking our data to publicly available information, such as company data, sector insights, or country-level statistics.
• Support business areas with product insights, including business development and product research, contributing to projects as needed.

Asset Impact is a fast-growing, impact-driven company, so your role could evolve. This means you will have opportunities to suggest, explore, and develop new tools and insights that can help Asset Impact achieve its impact-driven mission. It also means that your role and responsibilities will be driven by the growth of Asset Impact and your skills and interests. Likewise, besides your main focus, you can be involved in other activities such as building company culture, supporting recruitment, liaising with external stakeholders (e.g., financial institutions, research institutions, data providers, etc.), and/or helping our technical efforts.

• Right to work in Germany

Required skills

• Degree in a relevant field (e.g., Engineering, Sustainability, Economics, etc.) or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in Python or R
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data sets.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to research and answer client queries professionally and efficiently.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new tools and processes.

Preferred skills

• Experience in business development or research activities.
• Experience in coordinating quality control processes and feedback systems.
• Previous experience in a similar role related to sustainability.
• Proficiency in SQL.

Why join us?

• A dynamic international team of data scientists, analysts, sustainable finance specialists, and developers passionate about the climate transition. 
• It is a rapidly growing organization with many opportunities to get hands-on experience, make your voice heard, and help shape our future.
• A mission that brings together technology and impact.
• A competitive salary, generous personal development budget, and home office set-up.
• Subsidized public transportation and lunch vouchers.
• Flexibility in terms of working hours and location.
• Offices in the centers of Berlin, Paris, and Amsterdam.
• Asset Impact is proud to be an equal opportunity workspace.

About us

Asset Impact is an impact-driven climate start-up. Our vision is a financial system that sets the global economy on a path to net zero emissions. We are a specialist provider of climate data and analytics used by financial institutions to achieve emissions reductions in the real economy. Our asset-based data and analytics cover the most carbon-intensive sectors of the global economy and map more than +330k physical assets across +11 industry sectors – linked to more than +65k listed and private companies – to issued securities.

Our clients, mostly financial institutions, include large global organizations such as the 1,000+ financial institutions applying the PACTA tool, Barclays for its BlueTrackTM tool, ING for its Terra climate approach, and PwC for its Climate Excellence Tool.

Asset Impact, formerly Asset Resolution, was established in 2018 in Paris by the 2° Investing Initiative, an innovative international think tank working to align financial markets with climate goals. We became part of GRESB, the leading ESG benchmark for real estate and infrastructure investments, in 2022 and became Asset Impact. We work globally and are expanding rapidly to support the growing needs of financial institutions as they embark on their journey to decarbonization.

Find out more at https://asset-impact.gresb.com/