Climate Risk and Value Creation Associate

The Climate Risk and Value Creation Associate role at Strategic Staffing Solutions involves ensuring compliance with climate regulations across various investment sectors. Responsibilities include developing strategic frameworks, managing climate risk analytics, and advising portfolio companies on resilience and decarbonization. Candidates should have 2-3 years of experience in financial services, strong quantitative skills, and the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders. This is a full-time, 5-month contract position based in the United States.
Full time, Contract, 5 months




Role Overview:

This team drives climate regulation compliance and provides expert advice, tools, and strategic direction across the division.Operates across Private Equity, Private Credit, Real Estate, Infrastructure, and Growth business sleeves.Shares best practices, advises investment teams and leadership, builds strategic partnerships, and helps investors and portfolio companies meet climate regulations and client objectives.Helps develop the Climate Strategy platform and supports the division's climate risk, regulatory, reporting, and value creation activities.


In this role you can expect to:

Support the development of strategic frameworks for integrating the challenges and opportunities that climate change and the global energy transition may present to our business and investments. This role will act as an in-house expert. Act as a crucial first-line risk manager to ensure alignment with evolving regulatory requirements, stakeholder expectations, and internal procedures.Engage on value creation projects as a strategic thought and execution partner with portfolio companies and deal teams


Key Responsibilities:

Lead day-to-day work on rollout of transition and physical risk analytics, including supporting the ongoing development and improvement of analytics, socialization and educational materials, and process integration into deal lifecycles, with guidance from the Head of Climate StrategyAdvance value creation frameworks, tools, and advisory touches with portfolio companies on resilience, decarbonization, and product-related topics.Monitor cross-regional regulatory requirements in climate and ensure climate risk, transition planning, and other related value acceleration programs appropriately reflect requirementsManage processes and relationships on regular GHG and climate risk reporting relationships at a fund and portfolio company levelOversee appropriate documentation, implementation, and road-mapping of quantitative improvements to tools and resources for portfolio companies and deal teams• Advance communication and formalization of climate-related process integration through the development of management-level presentationsSupport bespoke and systematic diligence related to climate risk and opportunity assessmentsSupport vendor relationship management with reporting and analytics providers, including the development of partnerships as needed across new capability areasEnsure alignment of reporting practices with regulatory requirements and standards as a first line of defenseAct as a subject matter expert and frontline risk advisor for deal teams, other sustainability team members, and portfolio companies

Qualifications:

At least 2-3 years of experience in Financial Services or an investing related field and 5+ years of experience overallStrong demonstrated quantitative background and capabilities, with the ability to work in Excel and translate analytical concepts into documentation and to technical teamsWillingness to dig up sleeves, build tools, and advance stakeholder conversations a mustExperience developing executive-level written communication materials, strong relationship and stakeholder management skillsAbility and willingness to quickly learn, deal with ambiguity, and adapt to changing circumstancesKnowledge of climate-related scenario analysis, GHG accounting, decarbonization, resilience, reporting and target-setting frameworksPrior experience in a climate-related role in strategy, program management, risk management, or reporting strongly preferredA technical or hands-on background in engineering, energy efficiency, resilience preferred