Capital Markets Specialist

**Closing Date: 17 January 2025 at 5:00 pm EST**
**Expected Start Date: 17 February 2025**
**Location(s): São Paulo, Brazil - Hybrid/Remote**
**Process: Screening questions and 2 interviews**
**Fixed-term contract and will report to the Capital Markets Manager Latin America.**
**Competitive NGO salary, annual bonus, meal and transportation assistance, medical assistance, private pension fund, and 30 days of vacation.**
- CDP is an equal employment opportunity employer seeking diversity in qualified applicants for employment. We welcome you to inform us confidentially if you may require any special accommodation in order to participate fully in our recruitment process by sending a message to the recruiter connected to the role. They may be contacted directly by responding to any message you receive through our system after applying._
Do you care about the capital market and promoting sustainable investments? Do you have a passion for sustainability and ESG in the capital market, and want to make a difference? Are you passionate about how companies and financial services can contribute to a climate-resilient and environmentally sustainable future?
CDP Latin America is looking for a capital markets specialist to join its regional Capital Markets team to provide a critical contribution to CDP's capital market mission through investor engagement. This is an excellent opportunity to make a global impact on how investors, including asset managers, pension funds, banks and others can respond to the key environmental challenges of climate change and ESG integration.
**Who we are**
CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) is a global non-profit organization founded in 2000 and headquartered in London. We have pioneered and provided the world's only global natural capital disclosure system, where more than 8,500 companies represent more than 50% of the market capitalization of the world's 30 largest stock exchanges, and 750 cities in 100 countries report, share and take action on vital environmental information.
**About the CDP Latin America Team**
Due to the diversity, creativity and relevance of Latin America, our regional office is an innovation hub for creating new business models. Regionally, we mobilize investors, companies and governments to build and accelerate collaborative actions for development that work for current and future generations. We offer a variety of solutions so that environmental information is the cornerstone of political and business decision-making.
CDP Latin America is responsible for engaging with more than 1,000 companies in the region in transparency and action against climate change, in addition to having about 20% CDP in all packages based on participation and 10% of CDP Signatory Investors. Its magnitude also applies to the Cities States and Regions program, since almost 20% of the total number of municipalities that account for the CDP are in Latin America.
**Who you are**
- Must reside and be eligible to work in Brazil.
- Advanced English and Spanish (reading: advanced; conversation: advanced; listening comprehension: advanced; writing: intermediate)
- Graduation or specialization in Economics, Finance, Administration, International Relations and related issues.
- At least two years of experience working in the financial market with a customer relationship or sales function.
- Interest in sustainable investments and the integration of ESG issues into the investment process.
- Excellent skills of prioritizing demands for project offerables.
- Good sales and marketing skills to develop high-level relationships with leading Latin American investors to raise awareness about CDP's investor program.
- Good understanding of the capital market and investment management industry in Brazil and in Latin America.
- Good skills in data analysis, including experience in Microsoft Excel and in handling large amounts of data.
- Knowledge of international financial conventions.
- Interest on how climate change and other environmental concerns relate to material business risks and opportunities.
- Experience working with global and international teams.
- Financial certifications will be considered as differential.
**Your day-to-day**
- Support relationship management with major investors and financial services organizations, including family offices, managers, pension funds and banks, to support CDP's corporate disclosure request as signatory investors and members in Latin America.
- Support CDP signatories and members in CDP disclosure cycle process, disclosure of companies and their performance in CDP, using CDP data for benchmarking and identification of best practices.
- Support the management of national and international projects related to the Capital Market team, including design projects, implementation, monitoring and reporting.
- Disseminate data, analysis and insights provided by CDP to financial market stakeholders in Latin America.
- Collect and analyze feedback from fina

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