Climate Center Analyst
Lazard, one of the world's preeminent financial advisory and asset management firms, operates from 40 cities across 25 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Central and South America. With origins dating to 1848, the firm provides advice on mergers and acquisitions, strategic matters, restructuring and capital structure, capital raising and corporate finance, as well as asset management services, to corporations, partnerships, institutions, governments and individuals.
About the Lazard Climate Center
The Lazard Climate Center is a unique initiative to explore the effects of climate change on capital markets, company valuations, and corporate transactions across a broad spectrum of industries and geographies. By unifying the rigor and depth of academic research (through collaborations with leading scholars from MIT, Harvard, Columbia, and Imperial College) with the institutional experience and excellence of Lazard’s financial advisory practice, the Climate Center offers differentiated and tailored guidance as companies navigate the global climate transition.
The Center has three primary functions: research, thought leadership, and commercial advisory. Research is the linchpin of the Center’s operations. The initiative seeks to fill a crucial gap by focusing on quantifiable firm-level implications of climate change rather than sectoral or national trends. Some recent examples of studies include:
- Pricing the valuation discount rate for firms based on greenhouse gas emissions
- Evaluating the impact of carbon emissions in M&A transactions
- Assessing the evolving role of carbon offsets in firms’ climate transition plans
The Center utilizes research findings to directly advise clients on climate transition related matters, including, climate risk, decarbonization strategies, net-zero commitments, greenhouse gas disclosure, ESG accretive transactions, clean tech investments, and carbon offsets.
Qualifications
- Bachelors or advanced degree in Statistics, Quantitative Finance, Computer Science, Data Science, Business Analytics, Climate Sciences, or equivalent
- Strong programming skills in R, MATLAB or STATA
- Research experience using empirical or quantitative techniques
- Proficiency in using Excel and PowerPoint
- Excellent communication and writing skills
- Reporting to the Director of the Climate Center to provide a crucial function in the ideation and execution of research projects, as well as providing support on commercial client work
- Performing data-driven statistical and econometrics analysis
- Developing conceptual frameworks and models in climate finance
- Preparing decks and presentations for clients
- Assisting in the writing of academic publications that will be featured in peer reviewed journals and thought leadership pieces
- Significant interact with the Center’s academic senior advisors- Joe Aldy, Patrick Bolton, Marcin Kacperczyk, and Andrew Lo- and other research collaborators
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