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Senior Analyst - Capital Markets Transparency

JOB TITLE: Senior Analyst – Capital Markets Transparency

HOURS: 37.5 hours/week, Hybrid working with 2 days per week on site

LOCATION: Central London Office. Some travel required.

REPORTING TO: Group Head of Capital Markets Transparency

GRADE: Senior Analyst - (8 Years Experience)

Tracker Group is a UK-based, not-for-profit think tank. Our aim is to enable a Paris-aligned, nature-positive global economy by aligning capital market actions with planetary boundaries. We are the home of the two award-winning research brands, Carbon Tracker and Planet Tracker, which together comprise Tracker Group combined under one corporate entity since 2022.

Together, we mobilise investors and corporates alike to intervene in the practices destroying our planet, working towards the necessary, fundamental changes in our world’s financial markets to respect the environmental boundaries we know our planet has.

The Capital Markets Transparency team builds upon Carbon Tracker’s research on financial risk by identifying the ways by which investors, regulators and policymakers can ensure that companies (and their auditors) are providing information around those risks to the market via financial reporting.

The team’s focus, more specifically, is on ensuring sufficient consistency and transparency in corporate reporting so that markets can price those risks into valuations. This includes assessing select company financial statements against the Climate Accounting and Audit Assessment for Climate Engagement Canada and Climate Action 100+ benchmarks, providing governance metrics for a sub-set of companies for the new TransitionArc platform, educating investors on the how to ensure they are receiving the information they need to engage and make capital allocation decisions, and engaging with accounting standard-setters, auditors, financial regulators and those who can influence their decision-making.

INTRODUCTION 

Tracker Group is seeking a talented candidate to support the Head of the Capital Markets Transparency team in advancing research on the financial impacts of climate change through accounting, auditing, and disclosure. This role will help strengthen the team’s expertise and narrative, supporting Tracker Group’s mission. The focus is on assessing whether carbon-intensive companies provide adequate transparency on climate-related financial risks and whether auditors are properly challenging management assumptions. The role may also involve broader corporate reporting, policy work, and presenting findings to media and stakeholders

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Support the Head of Team in managing research projects and expanding the CMT research programme, including overseeing TransitionArc, Climate Action 100+  and Climate Engagement Canada deliverables, reviewing financial statement assessments, and guiding accounting decisions across sectors like extractives, chemicals, and transport, in collaboration with sector teams. 
  • Help deepen team expertise on climate-related financial risks across sectors and take part in investor training webinars on climate accounting. 
  • Plan and engage in outreach with standard-setters, audit firms, and regulators on climate-related reporting issues; draft responses to relevant consultations. 
  • Stay current on developments in accounting, auditing, and corporate reporting, including standards and best practices from bodies like IASB, ISSB, and SEC. Join relevant working subgroups. 
  • Join policy team calls and contribute to consultations and other tasks as needed. 
  • Co-author annual thematic reports, develop outreach plans, engage with stakeholders, write blogs on key topics, and support media and stakeholder engagement for report releases

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Required Experience

  • Fully qualified accountant (CPA or CA) or financial analyst (CFA) with at least eight years’ experience-preferably in auditing  or analysing financial statements.
  • Experience in public speaking and managing people and projects.
  • Adept at sourcing and researching credible and relevant data and information.
  • Experience in working in a deadline driven environment.

 

Required Attributes

  • The ability to speak confidently at conferences and events.
  • An outward mindset with ability and desire to influence policy makers, standard-setters and regulators, and facilitate and effect behavioural change in the markets.
  • Highly motivated, a fast learner.
  • Methodical and organised with a high attention to detail.
  • Willingness to further research accounting and audit requirements when needed.
  • Ability to write clearly and convey accounting concepts to non-specialist audiences.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to translate complexity clearly and concisely.
  • Team player, with willingness to collaborate, high integrity, diligent as well as ability to work efficiently and independently.
  • Passion for the mission.
  • Salary Range: Crica £72,000 per year, based on experience.
  • Hybrid Work Environment: Minimum of two days in the office per week, with the rest either from the office or home.
  • Annual Leave: 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays, with an additional day for every year worked (up to a maximum of 30 days per year).
  • Pension Contribution: 7% employer contribution.
  • Health Benefits: Possibility to opt into private healthcare.
  • Cycle to Work Scheme: Access to a cycle-to-work scheme.
  • Remote Work Flexibility: Up to four weeks per year working remotely.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 11th May 2025. 

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April 19, 2025

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