Associate or Senior Associate (depending on experience)

Position: Associate or Senior Associate (depending on experience)

Category:  Permanent 

Location: Downtown Montréal + Hybrid 

Salary: Competitive 

About the employer: Power Sustainable is a climate-focused alternative asset manager with over $4 billion in assets under management. Its private markets investment strategies in infrastructure, private equity and private credit finance companies and projects that support decarbonization, help build more resilient communities or increase energy and resource efficiency.

Benefits: Key role within the Sustainability Team, a function that is core to Power Sustainable’s mission – great opportunity to work on a wide range of sustainability roles and learn in a rapidly evolving field - start-up environment within an established financial conglomerate - warm and cooperative workplace – good work balance with professionally rewarding challenges and quality of life - opportunities for internal advancement.

Your responsibilities in a few words:

Support and partner with the investment teams by ensuring the proper integration of sustainable investment considerations into investment processes (analysis of value creation opportunities and ESG risks, including climate risks) - Conduct deep dives on economic and industrial activities to assess their sustainability merit - Engage with portfolio companies post-investment – Contribute to the disclosure of sustainability information on the firm and its investment strategies to a broad range of stakeholders through questionnaires (UNPRI, SASB, TCFD) and meetings with investors and other parties - Help measure and manage impact – Contribute to the development of sustainability policies and strategies - Participate in the development of content and work on the firm’s annual sustainability report.

Your qualifications for this position:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in sustainable investing, sustainability consulting, or sustainability management
• Bachelor's degree and ideally a master's degree in finance, sustainable development, environmental studies, engineering, law, or an equivalent field
• Experience working with investment teams, ideally in infrastructure and private equity
• Knowledge of climate issues and carbon footprint calculation
• Understanding of investment decision-making processes
• Familiarity with major sustainability frameworks
• CFA or FSA-SASB designations considered an asset 
• Knowledge of European regulations (SFDR, SDR, European taxonomy) considered an asset
• Expertise in biodiversity considered an asset

An ideal opportunity:  for a professional driven by the desire to work on solving the climate crisis. We are looking for a rigorous and analytical thinker who possesses the ability to simplify complex matters; a person who is a tactful and effective communicator, with a capacity to influence decision-makers; a well-organized professional who can manage quick turnarounds when required; and, finally, a team player.