Esg Business Analyst

Interested in ESG and Data? Want to make an impact on the ESG Data landscape at ING? Then read on

We are growing the ESG Product team and looking for Business analysts to join our ESG Data team within in the ATC (Air Traffic Control) department and part of the COO Risk organisation.

The Air Traffic Control Team guides and manages pathways of change, enables streamlined and safe operations for the entire COO Risk domain. Much like air traffic controllers maintain order and safety in the skies, we oversee and direct the flow of projects, ensuring role clarity, governance, and alignment with our strategic objectives.

The ESG Data team sifts through the complexity of ESG data to identify, gather and consolidate ESG data demands across the bank, provide insights for the design of efficient and future-proof data strategies, and support the strategic implementations to address these demands.

The ESG Data team
- Partners with ESG programs and initiatives to understand their deliverables and help them shape their data demands.
- Translate requirements to tangible data requirements for the data suppliers across the bank.
- Orchestrate the ESG demand management process for critical ESG data elements - monitor the progress of analysis and delivery in Demand management dashboard views.
- Provide insights to relevant boards and SteerCos on the appropriate data strategies tailored to the increasing ESG demand.
- Provide insights and support to delivery/supplier teams to clearly understand the received requirements.
- Collaborates with other teams in the COO organization and business lines to deliver ESG data for regulatory and strategic business initiatives.
- Key point of contact for all ESG demands to the COO organization.

As a Business Analyst/Consultant, you will play a crucial role in the team by actively working with programs, domain experts and implementation teams to achieve the key objective of delivering ready-for-use ESG data.

**Roles and responsibilities**
- Work closely with ESG stakeholders to understand their data demands.
- Refine demands following the demand management process to consolidate multiple and overlapping ESG data demands.
- Validate requirements for clarity and consistency across all ESG programs.
- Be the data content link between the programs/initiatives and the implementation/delivery domains to ensure efficiency and feasibility of implementation.
- Create opportunities to improve the demand management processes, drawing from best practices across and outside the bank.
- Help grow ESG data expertise within the team and the domain.

**How to succeed**

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

You have a talent for taking it on and making it happen, enthusiasm for helping others to be successful and a knack for always being a step ahead. You strive to bring fresh ideas to life and embrace challenges in a fast changing and complex environment. You identify challenges early on and produce creative, efficient, and robust solutions. You are a naturally collaborative person who listens and invests in others to achieve common goals. You are ambitious with what you want to achieve with your team. You have good (senior) stakeholder management skills. You have excellent social and communication skills. You feel a personal responsibility for the quality and reliability of your deliverables.

**Your profile**
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in business management, Economics, Engineering, Sciences, and/or equivalent
- 5+ years’ experience as a business analyst with (senior) stakeholder management skills
- Strong knowledge on business requirement management and refinement methods
- Strong data analysis skills
- Curious/analytical mindset
- Broad knowledge or exposure to sustainability, climate & environment risks or other ESG domain
- Ability to effectively communicate complex technical content to business/functional audiences
- Strong collaborative team player, working within and across multiple virtual teams in the bank
- Prioritisation and planning skills
- High level of proactiveness and taking initiative
- Great English communication and presentation skills - verbal and written communication
- Experience in creating processes and standards and documenting these for wide use
- Broad experience with basic data querying tools e.g. SQL
- Broad knowledge of data management, relation databases, data modelling
- Eager to learn more and proactively acquire knowledge relevant to ESG and sustainability topics

**Rewards and benefits**

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

- A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
- 24-27 vacation days depending on contract
- Pension scheme
- 13th month salary
- Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
- 8% Holiday payment
- Hybrid wor