Senior Associate, Multi Strategy ESG Advisory

About Us

Malk Partners, now part of SLR Consulting, is consulting firm that advises many of the world’s most successful investors on risk management and responsible investment. Malk assists asset managers in establishing best-in-class environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs that are deployed throughout the investment lifecycle in order to mitigate risk and create value. We partner with firms that invest across a range of industries and investment strategies, including financial services, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and consumer products. Malk was an early entrant into this rapidly evolving industry and continues to be at the forefront of ESG innovation and defining best practices. Malk’s dedicated Multi-Strategy team was formed to better serve the world’s largest asset managers in asset classes including private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, and secondaries in executing against their ESG commitments and strengthening their overall ESG programs to create value and meet investor expectations.

Job Description

Senior Associates on Malk’s Multi-Strategy team support clients in building and enhancing ESG programs across various asset classes, including private equity, private credit, real estate, secondaries, venture capital, and hedge funds. Malk’s Fund Advisory work focuses on developing tailored ESG management strategies to meet each client’s priorities. Previous projects have included development of an ESG program for a GP stakes firm, creation of ESG maturity models and frameworks for a multi-strategy asset owner, and the design and execution of ESG data collection strategies. In addition to Fund Advisory projects, Senior Associates support Multi-Strategy clients by performing ESG due diligence reviews for their prospective acquisitions.

Responsibilities

ESG Due Diligence Engagements:

• Analyze companies’ exposure to ESG risks and their capacity to mitigate those risks by gaining a rapid and deep understanding of a company’s material operations and strategy
• Review large virtual data rooms and take notes on relevant documents; conduct website, news, and database reviews on target companies; draft supplementary data requests lists and call agendas to support report memo preparation
• Develop strong, specific, researched recommendations for tangible sustainability improvement and/or risk mitigation
  
  

ESG Advisory Engagements:

• Support team engagements and prepare drafts of ESG fund advisory projects by assessing firms’ core operations, investment strategies, and ESG risk management and value creation programs through review of confidential information and self-directed research
• Assist with client ESG reporting projects used for public, LP, and regulatory ESG disclosures by participating in portfolio data collection and validation, taking notes on client documents, drafting case studies, and presenting updates to a Firm’s ESG strategy
• Support day-to-day client interactions, including occasional asks with quick turnarounds outside of normal business hours
• Assist business development efforts, including preparation of proposal decks and market / industry research
• Synthesize learnings across projects and asset classes to develop insights on industry-wide ESG, impact, and responsible investment trends, frameworks, and regulations (e.g., UNPRI, SFDR); strategically apply key insights to inform or tailor Malk’s approach to meet client goals
• Given the diverse nature of Multi-Strategy projects, Senior Associates must be comfortable balancing and reprioritizing tasks across workstreams with shifting timelines and executing at a high level of quality without relying on a consistent or well-defined process
  
  

Qualifications

Skills & Attributes:

• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Strong organizational and time management skills, including the ability to prioritize tasks across multiple concurrent timelines
• PowerPoint and Excel proficiency
• Critical thinking with a strong attention to detail
• Desire to work effectively with teams and generate solutions
• A desire to work in an entrepreneurial environment
• Knowledge of capital market dynamics, business acumen, and an understanding of how ESG and sustainability factors influence the investment process
  
  

Experience: Strong candidates generally have 2 years of work experience in industries such as management consulting, private equity, investment banking, or similar roles. Previous experience working in ESG/Sustainability is preferred but not required.

Education: Candidates with a demonstrated track record of success in rigorous academic environments

Additional Details

• Location: New York; Hybrid model: In-Office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday

• Compensation:
• New York: Base salary range is $90,000 – $100,000 bonus eligibility