Sustainability Data Analyst

At Franklin Templeton, we’re advancing our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic and diversified firm spans asset management, wealth management, and fintech, offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. Our talented teams working around the globe bring expertise that’s both broad and unique.

**About the Department**

**How You Will Add Value**

• Identify financially material sustainability topics across asset classes and investment styles.
• Support investment decision-making through rigorous, data-driven sustainability insights.
• Help evolve how sustainability data integrates into investment processes.

**Teams & Collaboration**

• Partner closely with investment teams on sustainability data and research questions.
• Collaborate with Risk, Compliance, Product, Technology, and Reporting teams globally.
• Communicate complex analytical findings clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

**What Will Help You Be Successful**

• Mid-to-senior level experience in data analysis, research, or analytics within asset management or financial services.
• Strong understanding of financial instruments and investment concepts across one or more asset classes.
• Experience supporting investment teams or working in research closely tied to investment decision-making.
• Interest in sustainability topics and willingness to develop expertise in financial materiality assessment.

**Technical Skills**

• Experience working with databases and data analysis tools such as SQL (Structured Query Language).
• Basic to intermediate experience using Python or R (R programming language) for analysis.
• Ability to work with large, imperfect datasets using sound judgement and critical thinking.
• Familiarity with analytics, models, dashboards, or scalable analytical frameworks.
• Exposure to sustainability data vendors, frameworks, or emerging sustainability regulations.

**Soft skills**

• Strong communication skills, including explaining complex analytics to non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively in a global, cross-functional environment.
• Intellectual curiosity and comfort working across evolving sustainability topics.
• Ability to operate as a trusted partner to investment professionals and senior stakeholders.

**Experience our welcoming culture and reach your professional and personal potential!**

Building teams with diverse skills, backgrounds, and experiences has always been important to us. Cultivating an inclusive culture where employees feel safe to share their voices is not only beneficial for our people, but also drives innovation and enables us to deliver better client outcomes. We will provide you with tools, resources, and learning opportunities to help you excel in your career and personal life.

We want our employees to be at their best. By joining us, you will connect with a culture that focuses on employee well-being and provides multidimensional support for a positive and healthy lifestyle. We understand that benefits are at the core of employee well-being and may vary depending on individual needs.

Franklin Templeton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, or gender expression, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation.

As part of our commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment, we welcome applicants with flexible working arrangements in their current roles or those seeking a flexible working pattern. We encourage you to communicate any preferences for flexible working so that we can consider this during our hiring process.

The Investment Sustainability Solutions Team (ISST) is a multidisciplinary group of sustainable investment professionals specialising in sustainability data and research, stewardship and engagement, and sustainability policy and reporting. The team supports investment teams and their clients by helping them consider and integrate sustainability within the investment process, partnering closely with Investment Risk, Compliance, Technology, and Product to enable rigorous, data-driven investment decision-making.

• Support thematic research across climate, nature, human capital, governance, and other topics.
• Analyse, validate, and interpret sustainability data for investment and risk use cases.
• Enhance internal analytical frameworks supporting sustainability risk and opportunity assessments.
• Translate research insights into scalable analytics with quantitative and technology partners.
• Support sustainability data vendor due diligence, methodologies, coverage, and limitations.
• Contribute to governance, documentation, and best practices for sustainability data usage.

Conduct data-driven sustainability research on financially material risks, opportunities, and impacts. Evaluate, curate, and analyse large datasets from internal and external sustainability data vendors.

When you become part of Franklin Templeton, you’ll join a company dedicated to progress. A company that doesn’t settle. One where we pursue our ambitions with energy and persistence. That’s why it’s so important that we empower and encourage the progress of our employees.

At Franklin Templeton, we embrace individual differences and value experience and perspectives brought by talent from around the world. And, although we are all different, we all have one thing in common – we are dedicated to what we do.

So whether you’re just starting your career journey, are well on your way, or are seeking a new direction, you’ll find the support you need to grow your career with us.