Climate Analyst (Singapore)

McKinsey & Company is hiring a Climate Analyst in Singapore for their Sustainability Insights team. The role focuses on helping clients achieve sustainability goals, including net zero emissions by 2050. Candidates should have a relevant advanced degree and over 5 years of experience in climate strategy. Responsibilities include leading internal initiatives, managing projects, and engaging stakeholders. This is a full-time position based in the Singapore office.
Who You'll Work With:
You will be based in our Singapore office as part of our Sustainability Insights team.

McKinsey has the goal of helping all industry sectors transform to get to net zero by 2050 and to cut carbon emissions by half by 2030 - with this in mind, we have launched McKinsey Sustainability, our new client-service platform.

McKinsey Sustainability seeks to be the preeminent impact partner and advisor for our clients, from the board room to the engine room, on sustainability, climate, energy transition, and environmental, social and governance (ESG). We are committed to investing behind this goal over the next four years—through our client service, knowledge and capability building, acquisitions and alliances as well as pro-bono investments.

We are assembling the best talent in the world to deliver against these objectives. If you have relevant expertise in sustainability, energy transition, renewables, sustainable finance and decarbonization and would like to be part of a growing team in Asia that will drive enormous impact through client service, knowledge development and capability building, come join our Sustainability Insights Asia team.

Sustainability Insights (SI) houses our expertise in sustainability, energy transition, renewables, sustainable finance and decarbonization. SI experts work with clients to deliver on their sustainability objectives along with McKinsey traditional teams, and sector teams to develop recommendations based on the findings. SI is the repository of McKinsey’s cutting edge thinking, knowledge and insights on asset decarbonization, renewables, hydrogen, CCUS, sustainable financing, carbon offsets, electric vehicles and other relevant topics.
• What You'll Do:
You will participate in company improvements and may take the lead on internal change initiatives. You will also develop and see through plans, forecast resources and prepare budgets. You will keep up to date with knowledge by participating in educational opportunities.
• Qualifications:

- MSc/MA or Ph.D. in economics, finance or related field
- 5+ years of experience in providing strategic advice on climate topics either as a consultant or internal strategy or similar function
- Experience in upward managing and supporting a multi-organization consortium
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills
- Good business development and project management experience
- Ability to think strategically and to work in a fast-paced and complex work environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Fluency in English