Associate Vice President, ESG Data Operations

AVP, ESG Data Operations

This individual will work closely with the business stakeholders in the various business lines and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) leads to provide solutions supporting ESG data needs, collection, and reporting. To be successful, the ideal candidate would have experience in thoughtful strategic planning around data integrity and governance with an ability to anticipate and respond to future business needs. The role requires a dynamic, adaptive, and versatile experienced hands-on professional to ensure best practices in a fast-paced rapidly growing environment.

Specific responsibilities include, but not limited to :

• Engage with ESG leads to evaluate their needs and problems, clarify, and document requirements, and help design solutions with the application development team by translating business requirements into functional requirements.
• Design, develop and evolve the blueprint of ESG Data Model framework with the collaboration of technology team.
• Ensure data governance is at the forefront of all systems and process design. Promote the benefits and importance of data governance.
• Responsibility for the team uploading / entering data into the relevant systems including, making initial checks of the data for omissions and initial accuracy and liaison with data owner to resolve issues.
• Perform analysis across diverse and large datasets; Effectively communicate research findings and relevant recommendations to the stakeholders and team members.
• Conduct outlier analysis and understand drivers of potential data issues to drive ESG key metrics & reporting needs.
• Developing an understanding of the challenges of amalgamating the investment management data and working with IT to build a strategic roadmap to aggregate ESG data / reporting requirements for the business.
• Work alongside with legal, compliance and audit to scope out requirements for documentation for ESG investment process, fund specific requirements and global regulations.
• Ensure that ESG disclosure requirements are properly vetted and implemented in a well-controlled process from an end-to-end perspective.

General requirements :

Qualifications :

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $150,000 - $175,000. Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance-based bonus. Note, the range takes into account a broad spectrum of qualifications, including, but not limited to, years of relevant work experience, education, and other relevant qualifications specific to the role.

The firm also offers robust benefits offerings. Ares U.S. Core Benefits include Comprehensive Medical / Rx, Dental and Vision plans; 401(k) program with company match; Flexible Savings Accounts (FSA); Healthcare Savings Accounts (HSA) with company contribution; Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance; Long-Term Disability (LTD) and Short-Term Disability (STD) insurance; Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Commuter Benefits plan for parking and transit.

Ares offers a number of additional benefits including access to a world-class medical advisory team, a mental health app that includes coaching, therapy and psychiatry, a mindfulness and wellbeing app, financial wellness benefit that includes access to a financial advisor, new parent leave, reproductive and adoption assistance, emergency backup care, matching gift program, education sponsorship program, and much more.