Sustainability Data Lead

U.S. Bank • Chicago, IL

1d • $124,355 - $146,300 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Sustainability Office (SO) is part of U.S. Bank’s Impact Finance organization within the Wealth, Corporate and Institutional Bank (WCIB). The SO team is responsible for delivering in three critical areas: (1) enterprise-wide sustainability strategy (2) sustainable finance innovation and business development; (3) impact measurement and management. The Sustainability Data Lead will support the Head of Sustainability and the Sustainability Team in the continued development and execution of sustainability data products and sub-domain strategy, with a focus on client financed emissions and net zero transition analytics. The role will support data product development through requirements gathering, program management, data analysis and data science expertise, including carbon accounting across Scopes 1, 2 and 3; integration and analysis of Scope 3, Category 15 (client) financed emissions; decarbonization pathway analysis across the real economy; and internal dashboarding and reporting aligned with the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) methodology, evolving industry standards, regulatory requirements and sustainable finance commercialization strategies, tracking and reporting. In executing on the sustainability data domain strategy, the Sustainability Data Lead will support and partner with business stakeholders in the Enterprise Data Office, Credit Risk, Reputation & Strategic Risk, various business teams and enabling functions in Impact Finance, client-facing teams in the Institutional Client Group, Commercial and Consumer Bank, Corporate Real Estate, and other enterprise partners, including the ESG Comptroller, Legal, Third-party Risk Management.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, computer science, engineering or applied mathematics, or equivalent work experience
• Six to eight years of relevant experience
• Advanced data science skills
• Exposure to climate and emissions measurement
• Prior corporate experience preferably within a financial institution
• Comfortable gathering business requirements
• Writing complex queries
• Extracting, merging, and transforming large, raw datasets
• Benchmarking results against established industry standards while resolving discrepancies across data sources
• Confident in quantitative analysis
• Able to clearly communicate insights to internal stakeholders, including senior management through concise and impactful presentations
• Experience with program management, execution, progress tracking, and internal and external stakeholder engagement is required
• Deep expertise in SAAS, SQL, Python, Excel, PowerBI, NLP/LLM models, data scraping and generative AI applications.
• Strong project management capabilities, with the ability to lead business requirements gathering, securing buy-in from requisite stakeholders, influencing without authority and ensuring timely execution
• Strong leadership skills and proven ability in motivating employees and promoting teamwork.
• Excellent interpersonal, management, and teamwork skills
• Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management skills and the ability to effectively manage multiple priorities and timelines
• High level of significant independent decision-making ability
• Ability to quickly identify risks and determine reasonable solutions
• Demonstrated ability to motivate others in a high-stress environment to achieve goal
• Ability to effectively communicate and resolve conflicts by both oral and written communication to both internal and external clients
• Ability to adapt to a dynamic and evolving work environment
• Well-developed analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience and knowledge of the principles and practices of management and employee development
• Ability to think critically to solve problems with rational solutions
• Ability to react and make decisions quickly under pressure with good judgment

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in data science, earth/climate sciences, engineering, sustainability, natural resource management, environmental economics, finance or other related field
• Prior experience with designing and implementing large-scale data strategies and their execution in large organizations
• Understanding of data integrity considerations and proper risk and controls around developing audit-ready data
• Knowledge of other frameworks and standards, including PCAF, ISSB, CDP, GRI and other impact reporting frameworks and industry guidance (SBTi, Transition Plan Taskforce, etc), emerging regulatory requirements (California Climate Disclosure Act, EU CSRD)
• Practical experience with implementing GHG Protocol, supporting data procurement and analytics of leading sustainability reporting frameworks, specifically ISSB and PCAF and experience with climate-related data providers and sources
• Understanding of basics of corporate finance, familiarity with sustainable finance products and carbon markets
• Strong data science and visualization skills, with the ability to understand the business goals, needs, and be committed to delivering recommendations that will guide strategic decisions

Responsibilities

• Lead further development of nascent enterprise-wide climate & impact data products, including (a) development of internal client/portfolio data flows and dashboards to facilitate analysis and external reporting against PCAF standards/regulatory requirements and net zero transition preparedness analytics; (b) support data strategies and lead execution of data products focused on Scope 1 and 2 emissions measurement and management; (c) exploration of new data products to support commercialization of sustainable finance strategy and other Impact Finance products and strategies; (d) facilitate and translate emerging business needs into scalable analytics through business requirements gathering
• Lead annual financed emissions analysis and deliver audit-ready net-zero and PCAF reporting for internal, external and regulatory use.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level