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Analyst, Corporate Sustainability – GHG Emissions Data Management, Environmental Sustainability

BlackRock’s Corporate Sustainability Team is responsible for integrating sustainability into BlackRock’s corporate operations, strategy and corporate disclosures. The Analyst will play a meaningful role in data collection and management for BlackRock’s greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions reporting process and will support the implementation of BlackRock’s environmental sustainability strategy.

Primary responsibilities:

• Support data management through collection, analysis and reporting on BlackRock’s environmental impacts, including energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories. This includes data from our global vendors.
• Support and coordinate the annual total carbon footprint submission to the CDP Investor and Supplier surveys.
• Manage data collection methodologies and help build a process of continuous improvement to quantify BlackRock’s environmental impacts.
• Track performance indicators, baselines and targets to drive improvement programs and risk management around climate change, energy, water resources, waste, data center energy efficiency, green buildings and transportation.
• Familiarity with global regulatory developments and changes to reporting standards and outstanding corporate behavior.
• Maintain and optimize the environmental management database. Build improved functionality into software tool and spreadsheets to provide relevant strategic metrics and information.
• Support sustainability reporting and engagement, including strategy development and customer process.
• Support Corporate Sustainability program as needed.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required; graduate degree preferred
• Strong analytical and statistical skills, including financial modeling and experience making sense of large amounts of data
• Minimum 1-2 years of relevant professional experience in GHG emissions reporting, including sustainability, energy, carbon footprint management or related field
• Seeking a tech-savvy candidate with experience with sustainability software tools, computer science and/or database management
• Expertise with Microsoft Office (especially Excel)
• Knowledge of the World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Balanced Development guidelines on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting Protocol as it relates to measuring Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions
• Knowledge of sustainability reporting frameworks, specifically CDP and TCFD.
• Solid grasp of sustainability and environmental topics and fundamentals (such as: balanced design, planning policy, waste, carbon/energy, responsible sourcing, water, biodiversity, and certification systems)
• Good social skills; enjoys working in a multi-functional team-oriented environment
• Self-starter with solid attention to detail and ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously while prioritizing the most pressing and impactful matters

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.