[Hiring] Data & QA Analyst @Carnelian

Role Description

We are looking for a Data & QA Analyst with a background or strong interest in impact investing, ESG, sustainability, and related financial or social-impact research. The role will focus on data quality, research validation, analytical consistency, and quality assurance across data-driven products and processes.

30 hrs/week

Start: mid-September

Location: U.S. or Europe

Responsibilities

• Review and validate financial, ESG, impact, and organizational data.
• Assess the quality, completeness, and consistency of collected information.
• Support the development and testing of analytical and scoring methodologies.
• Identify data issues, inconsistencies, edge cases, and areas requiring further research.
• Perform quality assurance on analytical outputs, reports, and datasets.
• Develop test cases and benchmark examples for validating data and analytical processes.
• Support ongoing improvements to data standards and quality-control procedures.
• Work closely with research and technical teams to investigate and resolve data-quality issues.
• Document findings, assumptions, and quality-control results.

Qualifications

• Impact investing
• ESG or sustainability
• Responsible or sustainable investing
• Financial research
• Philanthropy or nonprofit analysis
• Social-impact measurement
• Economics, finance, public policy, or related fields
• Experience with spreadsheets and data analysis is expected.
• Familiarity with SQL, Python, or statistical tools is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English are required.