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Description and Requirements
The Team You Will Join
The Income Sustainability Research team provides dedicated research, impact reporting and sustainability expertise within Fixed Income at MetLife Investment Management (MIM). This entails developing, building and maintaining specific sustainable strategies, impact reporting, engagement, and broader research and reporting on ESG issues. The team forms a dedicated resource within Fixed Income. The Analyst will report to the head of sustainability research and will contribute to the team’s broader work, with a specific focus on researching issuers and investment opportunities for fixed income portfolios.
The Opportunity
The Analyst is responsible for researching issuers and building sustainability expertise in their sectors of focus, contributing to other team activities related to maintaining sustainable investment portfolios and assisting with the production of sustainability reporting.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a team with deep experience in the sustainable finance space in an organisation where sustainability considerations and integrations are growing.
How You’ll Help Us Build a Confident Future (Key Responsibilities)
- Develop sector sustainability expertise and conduct qualitative sustainability research and analysis of issuers and investment opportunities for fixed income portfolios
- Support the production of sustainability impact reports
- Conduct quantitative sustainability analysis of issuers and portfolios using in-house and third-party data sources
- Represent the team’s work with internal stakeholders
- You’ll collaborate closely with the fixed income sustainability team, portfolio managers, traders and credit analysts, as well as, sustainability teams in other asset classes in an environment where every contribution is respected, and every perspective is heard.
What You Need To Succeed (Required Qualifications)
- Experience or education in a combination of sustainability research, investment management or other relevant fields
- Keen interest in sustainable finance, including ongoing and emerging themes and regulatory frameworks
- Understanding of GHG emissions measurement and reporting frameworks, and ability to conduct analysis of large datasets
- High level of critical and logical thinking, and strong written and verbal communications skills
- application instructions – all interested parties must attach a cover letter to their CV. Failure to do so will result in your application being invalid.
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Benefits We Offer
MetLife UK offers a range of benefits to deliver value to our employees and their families, supporting their health, wellbeing and financial security. Our flexible benefits offering provides freedom, choice, and flexibility in the way that you receive your benefits to better suit your lifestyle, meet some of your practical needs, and provide advantages in terms of tax and National Insurance savings. Our core benefits include 9% employer pension contributions with up to 4% matching available, comprehensive private medical insurance, income protection insurance, and life insurance. We offer a host of additional benefits that you can choose to buy including critical illness/dental/travel/gadget insurance, annual leave buy/sell, partner life insurance and more. All employees receive a £20 benefits allowance per month to spend on any additional benefits they select.
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2024 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world’s leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services.
At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
