Job Title: Responsible Investment Analyst 

Business Unit & Team: Alternatives, Real Estate – Responsible Investment Team 

Reporting to: ESG Manager 

Location: London 

BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) is the asset management division of BNP Paribas Group. As of July 1, 2025, AXA Investment Managers’ (AXA IM) activities have been fully integrated into BNPP AM, creating a unified and strengthened global platform. 

BNPP AM is a leading global asset manager, leveraging the Group’s scale, stability, and expertise. We serve a diverse client base, including institutional investors, corporations, distribution partners, and retail clients worldwide. Our investment capabilities cover a broad range of asset classes, from traditional strategies like equities, fixed income, and multi-assets to alternatives such as real estate, infrastructure, private debt, and private equity. This allows us to tailor solutions to meet client objectives. 

With AXA IM’s integration, BNPP AM now ranks among Europe’s top asset managers, managing approximately €1.6 trillion in assets, with a focus on long-term savings and alternative strategies. 

Sustainability is central to our approach. We prioritize ESG and responsible investing to deliver sustainable, long-term performance while supporting environmental, social, and economic transitions. Adopting a pragmatic, long-term perspective, we aim to generate durable value for clients, employees, and the economy, backed by strong risk management and responsible finance principles. 

All figures are sourced from publicly available data as of September 2025 

Job Purpose:  

The Responsible Investment Analyst will play a key role in supporting the investment and transversal teams in implementing the re-sponsible investment strategy for BNPP AM Real Estate, taking an integrated approach to RI, focusing three pillars: Decarbonisation, Resilience and Building Tomorrow. 

Responsible for advancing the integration of ESG best practices across a wide range of topics; Net Zero principles, resilience, engagement, ESG reporting, ESG Due Diligence, etc., with a focus on infrastructure. The role combines ESG research, strategic ESG framework development, data architecture and tool design, and regulatory alignment to embed sustainability best practices into investment decisions and asset-level performance management.  

Integration of ESG in Investment Processes  

• Carry out sustainable investing research on material infrastructure topics and peer reviews to implement best in class criteria into investment processes, including screening, due diligence, transaction, and asset management. Such topics include, ESG regulatory evolutions, ESG standards on decarbonisation, climate risk, nature and biodiversity risk, just transition, ESG governance practices, etc.  
• Development and ongoing management of infrastructure-specific ESG methodologies and tools based on ESG best practices and well established ESG standards (GRI, TCFD, TNFD, SASB, NZIF, CRIF, etc.)  
• Continuous improvement of existing ESG methodologies and tools (ESG ratings, decarbonization, Sustainable investment etc.) to reflect regulatory updates and evolving investment needs.  
• Contribution to the development of portfolio-wide ESG targets and commitments to ensure ESG performance improvement and ESG risk mitigation and management.  
• Develop subject matter expertise in resilience, biodiversity and engagement in infrastructure investments.  

Support ESG integration of new investments.  

• Pre-investment: run ESG gap analysis; structure ESG due-diligence scopes; review and challenge third-party ESG DD outputs to capture material risks/opportunities.  
• Post-investment: support ESG onboarding of new investments, ESG integration roadmap development, tracking, and key priorities, such as progress towards Net Zero, GRESB infrastructure and ESG disclosure.  
• Deal documentation: as relevant embed exclusion lists, ESG clauses, and reporting undertakings; support side-letter ESG provisions.  

Engagement policy and action plans  

• Roll out and implement engagement policy with investee companies and borrowers  
• Support building action plans (objectives, milestones, tracking ESG performance progress) on decarbonisation, resilience and health and safety.  
• Prepare qualitative and quantitative inputs for stewardship reports and case studies of engagement successes.  

ESG Reporting & Sustainable Regulatory Alignment  

• Prepare and consolidate ESG internal and external reporting obligations, including but not limited to UNPRI, TCFD and GRESB.  
• Support for fund-level ESG disclosures by ensuring underlying data quality and methodological rigor.  
• Monitor emerging sustainability regulations and alignment of internal reporting structures with evolving requirements.  

Stakeholder Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing 

• Coordinate with internal stakeholders including Investment Teams, Asset Management, Data Management. 
• Liaise with standard setting bodies (UN PRI, GRESB etc.), external consultants and ESG data and analytics providers to ensure consistency and technical robustness of ESG frameworks. 
• Response support for investor and client ESG queries related to infrastructure investments. 
• Delivery of quarterly newsletters to spread knowledge across the organization on key ESG topics and our RI team’s achievements. 

We welcome different combinations of skills & experiences: 

Your qualifications and experience: 

• Degree in Sustainability, Engineering or Finance (master’s is preferrable)  
• Some experience in RI/ESG in a financial institution, infrastructure firm or adjacent fields (sustainability consulting, stewardship, infrastructure investing etc.).  
• Demonstrated experience in carbon, climate or biodiversity related projects, with an understanding of key frameworks, i.e. SBTi, NZAMI, NZAOA, NZIF, PCRAM, etc.  
• Demonstrated experience in private equity, private debt or sustainable finance for real assets investment.  

Your knowledge and skills: 

• Understanding of EU and local ESG regulations, i.e. SFDR, SDR, EU Taxonomy, Loi energie climat, omnibus, etc. IT skills: Microsoft Excel/ PowerPoint, analytics/ BI, and good command of VBA and Python.  
• Accomplished interpersonal skills, ability to work efficiently in a team in an international and matrix environment  
• Proven team-player with excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing  
• Autonomous, initiative, entrepreneurial and result driven culture  
• Ability to manage complex projects and multiple tasks in parallel  
• Strong analytical and synthesis capacity  
• Creative thinking, capability to develop innovative solutions  
• Strong written and oral skills in English.  
• Any other European language is considered a plus  

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