Data & QA Analyst — Impact Investing

Carnelian is seeking a Data & QA Analyst with an interest or background in impact investing, ESG, sustainability, and related financial or social-impact research. The role focuses on validating data, ensuring analytical consistency, performing quality assurance, and improving data-driven products and processes.

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

Requirements:

• Experience with spreadsheets and data analysis is expected
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English are required
• 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
• Familiarity with SQL, Python, or statistical tools is a plus