Junior Data Analyst - Data Acquisition

Job purpose and background in summary

Are you passionate about using data to drive change in a mission-driven NGO? Do you enjoy working with data and machine-learning, working with data end-users and are you a strong communicator?

About CDP

CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts. The world’s economy looks to CDP as the gold standard of environmental reporting with the richest and most comprehensive dataset on corporate and city action. In 2022 more than 18,000 companies, representing around 70% of the global market capitalization, and 1200 Cities, States and Regions disclosed their environmental impact data through CDP. In 2021 we launched our new five-year strategy: Accelerating the Rate of Change - find out more here. Visit https://cdp.net/en or follow us @CDP to find out more.

About the role & the Data Analytics team

CDP’s Data Analytics Team is looking for a skilled, enthusiastic, and ambitious Junior Data Analyst – Acquisition who is passionate to use data to drive companies, investors, and governments to build a thriving economy which works for people and planet.

You will work across several projects to gather, manage, and improve data acquired by CDP. This work supports key internal stakeholders as well as the Data, Insight & Disclosure department at CDP. You will also be documenting 3rd party data and managing robust processes for organizing this documentation.

The role sits within the Data Analytics team which comprises of more than 20 analysts working across CDP to deliver innovative analytical services and data products for Capital Markets, Cities, States and Regions and Supply Chain clients, as well as other internal and external stakeholders. In collaboration with the team, you will help develop and deliver exciting analytical projects and new data products.

Key responsibilities include:

• Gathering and managing data from 3rd party data sources and vendors.
• Ensuring timely and appropriate management of data licenses and invoices.
• Understanding data needs across the Data Analytics team and across CDP.
• Researching potential new sources for data to further improve modelling and analytical capabilities.
• Supporting team with manual and automated data collection from websites, reports and databases.
• Maintaining and improving currency conversion data and scripts.
• Supporting colleagues in the use of 3rd party data and making better decisions from this data.
• Documenting 3rd party data sources for internal management.

Required/desired skills and experience:

• At least 1 year of data analysis experience using R/Python using relevant functions e.g. (Pandas, Beautiful soup, Scrapy, Tidyverse, Tidy web scraping, rvest)
• Excellent communication skills in English.
• Experience with SQL.
• Applied data cleaning and data wrangling skills.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Strong numeracy and statistical skills.
  

Additional things we would be happy to see:

• An understanding of GHG accounting methods and ESG data.
• Familiarity with GitHub or other code repository/version control tools.
• Data visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• An awareness of environmental issues, particularly as they relate to our core themes of Climate Change, Deforestation and Water Security.
• Knowledge of the financial system and capital markets.
  
  

This is a permanent, full-time role based at CDP’s London office reporting to the Senior Data Analyst – Water & Forests.

Salary and benefits: £30,000 – 32,000 per annum, 30 days holiday excluding bank holidays, generous non-contributory pension provision, annual discretionary bonus (depending on company performance), Employee Assistance Program, life assurance, training and development, flexible working opportunities, and others.

Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the UK. We cannot sponsor this role.

Before you apply

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How to apply:

Please upload your CV in the application form along with a covering letter as an additional document setting out how you meet the required skills and experience or key responsibilities, which should be no more than two pages. The deadline is 2nd of April.