Strategic Climate Initiatives Analyst – Climate Focus

Role Overview

• Develop and produce moderately complex reports, dashboards, and spreadsheets in support of strategic initiatives, including historical tracking, workflow analysis, and performance reporting.
• Support the identification of trends, emerging issues, and risks by gathering data, coordinating with stakeholders, and synthesizing inputs into clear, well-structured materials such as presentations, summaries, and reports.
• Perform analytical and judgment-based work across multiple disciplines to support business decisions related to climate impact, risk management, measurement, and reporting initiatives.
• Development and maintenance of reporting dashboards, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and usefulness for management and business partners.
• Serve as the point of contact related to data inquiries and management for the Office of Sustainability as its data steward.
• Support departmental audit and control activities, including documentation preparation, user recertifications, and compliance testing.
• Support planning and implementing new projects, products, programs and initiatives to achieve short and long-term business objectives and strategic outcomes.
• Lead effort to maintain project documentation.
• Develop comprehensive documentation that aligns with regulatory expectations as required.
• Assist with planning, testing, and implementation activities related to new projects, systems, products, or regulatory changes impacting the Office of Sustainability.
• Serve as a point of contact for routine system or reporting support needs, escalating issues and coordinating with internal partners, vendors, and technology teams as needed.
• Adhere to applicable compliance, operational risk, and internal control standards in accordance with company policies and regulatory requirements.
• Promote an inclusive and respectful work environment that reflects the M&T Bank brand and values.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 2 years’ relevant work experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 6 years’ higher education and/or work experience
• Strong attention to detail
• Experience working independently and functioning as a member of a team
• Strong analytical ability
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Self-motivated
• Results-driven
• Well-organized
• Experience handling multiple tasks and working under time constraints in support of various assignments
• Proficient with personal computers and pertinent spreadsheet, database, graphing, and presentation software.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Forty hours of paid volunteer time each year