Quantitative Analyst: Sustainability Risk - Johannesburg at Absa South Africa

Job Summary

• To provide specialist advice and support in area of specialization enabling the effective implementation of risk frameworks.

Job Description

• Integrate ESG and climate data across various climate data sources, e.g. IEA, CDP, IPCC, Bloomberg, Moody’s and sustainability reports etc.
• Build the required infrastructure and pipeline for optimal ETL (extraction, transformation, and loading) of data from various data sources using various data technologies.
• Design and implement processes including designing ESG and climate data infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes.
• Identify and address ESG data matters, such as approaches to missing data, data quality issues, and leveraging structured/unstructured data.
• Leverage data science tools and libraries to perform data mining, prediction, and analytics.
• Develop analytical reports using data query and data analytical/reporting tools, e.g., SAS, SQL, PowerBI, QlikView, etc., per business requirements.
• Develop data governance practices in line with head office guidelines.
• Produce proprietary and unique data-driven ESG insights and approaches, particularly with respect to climate and scenario analysis approaches.
• Timely identification and escalation of problem items.
• Ongoing maintenance of climate risk data repositories.
• Analyze internal and externally sourced climate data and reports to provide detailed views, risk insights and propose differentiated approaches.

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)