Full-Time
ESG Ratings Analyst
ISS | Institutional Shareholder Services
1,001-5,000 employees
Proxy advisory and ESG data analytics
No salary listed
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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On-site in Mumbai, India.
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- Master’s Degree (a degree in a field such as international relations, development studies, environmental science, or international human rights is desirable); knowledge of financial markets and sustainable finance is an advantage. An MBA with a sustainability concentration is also desirable.
- 0-2 years of relevant professional experience in sustainability-related field, financial services, ESG research/Sustainable finance/Credit Ratings, thinktanks focused on sustainability or academic research institutes
- Excellent English language skills, both written and oral
- Knowledge of, and proficiency with, Microsoft Office packages (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word)
- Experience with sustainability topics or key sectors, with experience in data collection and business research, is an advantage
- Integrity, organisational skills, attention to detail, a self-driven work ethic, and the ability to prioritise multiple tasks in a high-pressure, deadline-driven environment
- Adaptability, flexibility, and the ability to thrive in a rapidly evolving environment and field
- Ability to work independently while adhering to deadlines and balancing production volumes with high-quality
- Strong research and analytical skills (planning and delivery, attention to detail, commitment to excellence and quality control)
- Ability to quickly process large amounts of data and information
- Contribute to an engaging, positive, and collaborative working environment, including through the management of other team members
- Gather ESG data from company disclosures (e.g., sustainability reports and annual reports). Engage in ESG data processing, research, and analysis in line with ISS ESG methodology
- Track and monitor developments and trends in various industries of specialisation
- Take ownership of production targets and deliver the research within the timelines outlined in the processes and quality standards
- Coordinate with relevant internal stakeholders to ensure that production is completed on time without compromising on quality
- Constantly endeavour to develop knowledge and expertise on ESG themes associated with corporate ratings. Support the rating team using thought leadership and research publications, methodology reviews, and ESG market development monitoring. Make suggestions based on domain expertise to evaluate new data sources
- Demonstrate proactiveness with a strong sense of ownership for the work
- Act as a process expert regarding production, conduct tutoring, and process relevant training based on experience and expertise in specific industries
- Participate in quality assurance procedures
- Master’s Degree (a degree in a field such as international relations, development studies, environmental science, or international human rights is desirable; knowledge of financial markets and sustainable finance is an advantage). An MBA with a sustainability concentration is also desirable.
- Experience with sustainability topics or key sectors, with experience in data collection and business research, is an advantage
ISS Governance provides governance and ESG data, research, and advisory services to institutional investors and corporations around the world. Its offerings include proxy voting advice, governance research, ESG data analytics, and specialized services such as securities class action claims management, delivered through subscriptions and consulting. The company differentiates itself with a global footprint and a broad suite of insights and outreach that help clients understand governance risks and make informed voting and governance decisions. Its goal is to help clients improve governance and ESG practices, manage related risks, and make data-driven investment and voting choices.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$3.4B
Headquarters
Rockville, Maryland
Founded
1985
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- ISS launched Real Asset Climate Solutions on October 23, 2025, broadening recurring revenue.
- The February 1, 2026 policy refresh preserves ISS's influence over board elections and climate votes.
- Sust Global's 2025 acquisition strengthens ISS STOXX's geospatial AI and asset-level risk data.
What critics are saying
- Texas, Nebraska, Iowa, and West Virginia sued ISS in May 2026.
- The lawsuits attack ISS's ESG disclosures, consulting conflicts, and claimed objectivity, risking injunctions.
- Congress and regulators target ISS's duopoly; forced disclosure rules could weaken the franchise by 2027.
What makes ISS | Institutional Shareholder Services unique
- ISS controls proxy voting workflows and benchmark policies across thousands of institutional clients.
- ISS STOXX combines governance research, ESG data, and asset-level climate analytics.
- Its 2026 policies translate governance views into actionable vote recommendations before every proxy season.
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↑ 31%FMG Suite strengthens leadership team as AI and enterprise demand reshape advisor growth. * August 3, 2026 New hires from EY-Parthenon, Bain, Goldman Sachs, Salesforce, IBM and ISS strengthen leadership as firm scales its compliant growth platform across enterprise wealth management, broker-dealers, insurance and asset management GARDENA, Calif., August 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - FMG Suite (FMG), the leading marketing and growth platform for financial advisors, insurance professionals and enterprises, today announced four additions to its senior team: Christian Short as Senior Vice President of AI Strategy & Operations; Nathan Worthington as Senior Vice President of Customer Success; and Kevin Jurick and Jeremy Kowalski as Strategic Enterprise Account Executives. These appointments follow FMG's recent board expansion and reflect the company's accelerating investment in the next phase of its platform strategy. As broker-dealers, RIAs, wirehouses, insurance organizations and asset managers increasingly deploy FMG on behalf of advisors and agents at scale, the firm is expanding leadership in the areas that matter most to enterprise success: AI strategy and infrastructure, customer success and enterprise sales. Together, these hires strengthen FMG's ability to help institutions deliver compliant growth, deepen advisor engagement and bring more of the wealth management ecosystem onto the platform. "FMG is entering a new phase. We are evolving from a marketing platform into the compliant growth platform for the financial services industry, and that requires leadership built for where the market is going," said Dave Christensen, CEO of FMG Suite. "Christian's hire will enable us to provide a clear AI strategy across our entire product line, helping our clients not only say they are AI-enabled but actually take advantage of the efficiency and productivity gains these tools provide in a marketing and growth strategy. Kevin and Jeremy deepen our ability to bring that platform to more enterprise firms, and Nathan ensures we deliver the kind of customer experience that turns enterprise relationships into long-term growth." New Team Members * Christian Short joins as Senior Vice President of AI Strategy & Operations, reporting to Christensen. Short comes from EY-Parthenon, where he served as Senior Director and co-architected Enterprise Reimagined, a flagship AI transformation product for financial services clients and drove the commercialization of EY Growth Platforms, a neurosymbolic AI product. Before EY, he spent more than seven years at Bain & Company focused on financial services and private equity, founded a venture-backed telehealth company and served as interim CEO of a consumer health brand through a nationwide retail launch. Earlier in his career, he worked alongside FMG Suite Executive Chairman Mark Casady as chief of staff at Vestigo Ventures, an AI/Fintech venture firm led by Casady. * Nathan Worthington joins as Senior Vice President of Customer Success, where he will lead FMG's customer success organization across SMB and enterprise segments. He will be responsible for helping clients realize value more quickly, deepen their adoption across the platform and expand their long-term growth with FMG. Worthington joins from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS STOXX) where during a more than 16-year career as a Managing Director, he led a global client success organization that strengthened relationships, deepened partnerships and ultimately drove industry-leading renewal rates. * Kevin Jurick joins as a Strategic Enterprise Account Executive focused on broker-dealers, RIAs, wirehouses, insurance organizations and asset managers. Jurick brings more than two decades of institutional financial services experience, most recently as Managing Director and Head of Strategic Accounts (US) at Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS STOXX) where he managed a client portfolio spanning asset managers, insurance companies, public pension funds and wealth platforms. Before leading Strategic Accounts (US), he managed the firm's North American asset management sales team. Before that, he spent a decade at Goldman Sachs as a Vice President and Designated Market Maker on the NYSE. * Jeremy Kowalski joins as a Strategic Enterprise Account Executive alongside Jurick. Kowalski comes from Salesforce, where he served as a Strategic Account Director for nearly six years, managing partnerships with State Street and Fannie Mae, and leading extended teams of 15 to 20 people to drive C-suite relationships and platform expansion inside complex enterprise accounts. Kowalski previously held enterprise sales and business development roles at IBM, where he sold AI solutions and earned the firm's Best of IBM recognition in his first year. He served in strategic roles in multiple startups and spent eight years at UBS in fixed-income sales and operations. "Enterprise growth in this market is not just about winning deals, but earning trust and then delivering results that expand over time," said Matt Newman, Chief Revenue Officer at FMG Suite. "Kevin and Jeremy know how to navigate complex institutional sales, and Nathan brings the discipline to build a customer success organization that keeps those relationships growing long after the contract is signed. Together, this team gives us more scale across the full enterprise lifecycle." About FMG Suite FMG Suite is the leading marketing and growth platform for financial advisors, insurance professionals, and enterprises, empowering them to scale compliant, client-centered marketing that drives organic growth. Trusted by more than 80,000 financial professionals reaching over 45 million U.S. investors, FMG is consistently ranked number one in market share and customer satisfaction in the T3 Software Survey Report and has been recognized by WealthManagement.com as Best Marketing Automation Platform. An independent study found that enterprises using FMG achieved Net Promoter Scores nearly four times the industry average, along with improvements in lead conversion, client retention, and time saved on marketing tasks. FMG is defining the future of organic growth for financial services firms. For more information, visit https://fmgsuite.com/. FMG Suite Media Contact
Four states launch lawsuits against proxy advisor ISS over ESG policies. Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) is facing a series of new lawsuits filed by the Attorneys General of Texas, Nebraska, Iowa and West Virginia, alleging that the firm violated consumer protection and deceptive practices laws by promoting ESG and DEI-related policies in its advice to investors. The lawsuits, which follow a similar suit filed last year by Florida against ISS and its peer Glass Lewis, mark the latest in a series of actions by anti-ESG politicians in the U.S., which has increasingly focused on the proxy advisory firms in the past few months, including an executive order by President Trump in December directing several U.S. federal agencies to increase oversight of ISS and Glass Lewis over their support for ESG and DEI issues and a warning from SEC Paul Atkins of plans to examine and propose actions focused on the role of proxy advisory firms over the "weaponization of shareholder proposals by politicized shareholder activists." In the new suits, the AGs claim that ISS misled investors by marketing its proxy advice as objective, while incorporating DEI, ESG and climate-related considerations that they argue were not tied to financial analysis or investor returns. Each of the suits also incorporate conflict of interest allegations, including claims that ISS provided ESG consulting services to companies on which it was covering in its research reports to investors. Several of the suits also claim that ISS failed to disclose that it is "owned by ESG activists." ISS is owned by international exchange organization Deutsche Börse and growth equity investor General Atlantic. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said: "ISS has enormous influence over how billions of dollars are invested and managed across this country, and they have abused that influence in order to push woke ideology. This, in turn, has often resulted in terrible financial advice disguised as 'progressive' shifts. I will not allow this woke corporation to smuggle radical, liberal ideology into the companies they advise and hurt our financial system." In a statement provided to ESG Today, an ISS spokesman said that the company "believe(s) the allegations lack merit and will vigorously defend against them." The spokesman added: "ISS' job is to provide sophisticated institutional investor clients with independent, timely, and expert research and vote recommendations based on the proxy voting policies the clients have selected or customized based on their determination of the best interests of the beneficiaries they serve."
EXCLUSIVE: Republican AG takes on big business over covert DEI policies. Red state attorneys general are on waging legal warfare against diversity, equity and inclusion policies lingering in big business. Discover more Comedy Films Republican Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers filed a lawsuit against proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) Wednesday, alleging the firm illegally implemented DEI policies and flouted its fiduciary duty to pursue ideological ends. Other states are expected to join the lawsuit. Nebraska's action follows a Florida lawsuit in November alleging similar wrongdoing by ISS. "ISS sold Nebraska investors on the promise of objective, independent research. What they were actually getting was advocacy - coordinated with [environmental, social and governance (ESG)] activist organizations, untested against any financial standard, and driven by an ideological agenda that ISS never disclosed," Hilgers told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "Despite heavy criticism for promising objectivity and delivering ideology, ISS has refused to make any changes. But you cannot promise one thing and deliver another in Nebraska. We are taking action to put a stop to it." Nebraska's suit accuses the firm of favoring ESG frameworks regardless of their clients' financial interests. Proxy advisory firms conduct research and advise shareholders how they should vote on various corporate governance matters. This includes everything from setting executive salaries to pension management. "Missing is any financial analysis by ISS to determine whether the E&S advice given was in clients' best financial interests - even though advisers have a fiduciary duty to provide such advice and Nebraska consumers count on such advice to grow their pensions and other investment accounts," Hilgers' lawsuit reads. "ISS itself acknowledges that its fiduciary duty to clients 'obliges an adviser to provide advice that is in clients' best interests.'" While advising shareholders to vote according to ESG principles, "ISS runs a parallel ESG consulting business, selling expensive services to the same companies it covers in its research reports. This is no different than a health inspector selling cleaning services on the side." "This is a deceptive trade practice and consumer protection action against Defendant ISS, a highly influential investment adviser, for promising shareholder clients, including those in Nebraska, one thing and delivering another," the suit reads. "Instead of providing its clients objective and impartial investment advice, as advertised, ISS has provided and continues to provide advice tainted by ISS' own ESG ideological considerations untethered to its clients' best financial interests and prepared in close coordination with ESG activists." Discover more Republican Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's November 2025 lawsuit against ISS and Glass Lewis alleges the same ideological violations of fiduciary duty. Florida also accuses the firms of violating state antitrust laws. Both companies are foreign-owned. The Multistate Proxy Advisor Coalition now includes Alaska, Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia. "Defendants' anticompetitive conduct has a substantial impact on Florida commerce. Because Defendants control around 97% of the market for proxy advice, Floridians were unable to switch to an alternative and suffered a pecuniary injury as a result," the Florida suit reads. Should Nebraska's Attorney General pursue legal action against ISS for alleged DEI policy violations? ISS and Glass Lewis denied Florida's claims they acted as a duopoly or illegally employed ESG and DEI practices. Discover more Drama Films Comedy Films Nebraska also accuses ISS of racial discrimination via DEI policies and operating procedures. "Shareholder clients are also misled by ISS' illegal consideration of race and ethnicity with respect to board of director candidates and a privately admitted lack of competence underlying certain of its ESG recommendations," the suit reads. "These actions have harmed Nebraska residents including by placing returns on their pensions and other investments behind promotion of ISS' own social and political agenda." President Donald Trump issued multiple executive orders clamping down on DEI initiatives by ISS and Glass Lewis, universities, government and federal contractors. The Trump administration also attempted to withhold funding from universities employing DEI metrics in admissions and operations, sparking lengthy legal battles. "In particular, ISS has regularly used its research to pressure companies and their directors to advance the E&S components of ESG, namely climate change and diversity, equity and inclusion ideals," Nebraska's suit reads. The filing goes on to list several research reports allegedly exemplifying ISS' ideological motivations, including "Adoption of a Climate Accountability policy, Adoption of a Say on Climate policy, Inclusion of a full-page Climate Awareness Scorecard in each report grading the company, Inclusion of a prominent QualityScore report card in each report grading the company on a variety of E&S components of ESG," and "Adoption of a Racial and/or Ethnic Diversity policy." ISS' 2026 Benchmark Voting Guidelines explicitly recommends shareholders "vote against or withhold from the chair of the nominating committee (or other directors on a case-by-case basis) at companies where there are no women on the company's board" in its "gender diversity" section. "ISS has spent years marketing itself as a neutral, objective proxy advisor, but it is actually peddling a political agenda. This new lawsuit from the Nebraska AG highlights how practices and advice provided by ISS and marketed as objective are not only ideologically driven, but potentially illegal," Consumers' Research Executive Director Will Hild told the DCNF. "Consumers' Research has long warned that the proxy advisor duopoly represents one of the most dangerous and least accountable concentrations of corporate influence impacting consumers," Hild added. "We commend the state AGs working to hold ISS accountable and will continue to support elected officials who are pushing back against the woke agenda." All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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ISS STOXX launches new suite of Real Asset Climate risk solutions for investors. Emanuela Hawker October 24, 2025 ISS Sustainability Solutions, the sustainable investment-focused business of ISS STOXX, announced the launch of Real Asset Climate Solutions, a new suite of tools aimed at enabling investors to assess and mitigate climate-related impacts in their portfolios. According to ISS, the new set of solutions was designed to support institutional investors, banks, insurers, and reinsurers to identify and manage climate risks and develop climate resilient portfolios, utilizing ISS STOXX's toolsets including Physical Risk, Carbon Footprint and Scenario Alignment analyses and geospatial asset-level data. The new solutions include Geospatial Asset Analytics solution - powered by the recently acquired geospatial AI-powered climate risk intelligence company Sust Global - enabling users to evaluate exposure to climate hazards such as floods, wildfires and heatwaves based on Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenarios, with projections through to the end of the century. It also allows assessment of potential structural damage and business disruption at the asset level. Additional products in the new suite include Carbon Footprinting, analyzing of emissions performance at the real asset and portfolio level, projecting Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions and financed emissions, a Scenario Alignment solution to help assess how real asset portfolios are positioned against science-based decarbonization pathways, projecting Scope 1 and 2 emissions and comparing them to granular benchmarks, differentiated by building type and region, enabling investors to evaluate climate risk exposure and alignment with decarbonization strategies and targets. Till Jung, Head of the Sustainability Business at ISS STOXX, said: "Physical and transition risks from climate change are accelerating and are a material financial consideration for investors, banks and insurers. As a leading provider of climate research, data and analytics, we are pleased to launch our integrated suite of real asset climate solutions to help financial market participants better identify and mitigate climate risks."