Principal Consultant – ESG Reporting, Disclosure

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October 9

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Anthesis Group

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Consulting • Sustainability • Digital Solutions

Anthesis Group is a global sustainability consultancy firm committed to helping businesses achieve harmony with the environment and global communities. The company provides a range of solutions designed to guide clients towards sustainable performance, focusing on impact and solution-oriented strategies. Their services encompass brand communications, carbon management, environmental and social governance, net zero and decarbonization, sustainable products, and circularity, as well as supply chain sustainability. Anthesis Group also offers digital solutions that enhance efficiency and innovation. They are dedicated to addressing environmental responsibility and social accountability to build high-performing businesses.

1001 - 5000 employees

💰 Private Equity Round on 2023-09

📋 Description

• Lead the delivery of reporting strategy and report development client engagements, largely independently, demonstrating critical thinking and understanding of both process and strategic issues, context, and client needs. • Develop content – including writing and editing reports, disclosures, and other related materials. • Conduct strategic analysis, benchmarking, and research to develop actionable short- and long-term recommendations for clients’ reporting ambitions. • Lead project delivery teams, comprised of colleagues at all levels and from across the organization, including reviewing and refining team members’ work products and being accountable for ensuring they meet our quality standard: clear and well-written, reflective of careful thought and analysis, error-free, and polished. • Deliver tasks on time, within budget, and with exceptional quality, to ensure that projects meet or exceed targets and deadlines. • Manage several projects at any one time – each with their own project team, which may include external contractors – including managing timelines, workstreams, and budgets and proactively identifying and mitigating risks to project success. • Convey an understanding of voluntary and mandatory disclosure strategies, various reporting frameworks, raters, regulatory requirements, and reporting best practices. • Advise clients on reporting strategy projects via rater and framework gap analysis, benchmarking, and reporting trends analysis to develop recommendations for programmatic and policy enhancements that address disclosure gaps and improve performance. • Support clients in gathering data and information and translating key sustainability messages into mediums for different target audiences (e.g., investor reporting frameworks, ESG rater and ranker platforms, regulators, customer surveys, employees, etc.). • Support and help advise clients in developing and implementing assurance readiness processes for their sustainability reporting. • Integrate and utilize ESG data management tools and software solutions. • Contribute to and develop proposals for potential clients and projects, as well as expand scopes of engagement and support with existing clients, in collaboration with colleagues across Anthesis, to help them drive their sustainability agenda.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a sustainability practitioner, with direct experience leading or supporting corporate sustainability reporting and disclosure efforts. • Knowledge and understanding of sustainability/ESG issues and related reporting trends, drivers, and frameworks with the ability to identify and articulate opportunities to improve sustainability disclosure and performance. • Proficiency in some or all of the following disclosures: CDP (Climate, Water, and/ or Forest), S&P Global CSA (DJSI), MSCI, Sustainalytics, ISS, and EcoVadis. • Proficiency in the following reporting standards or frameworks: GRI, IFRS/ISSB, SASB, and TCFD. • Familiarity with existing and pending ESG disclosure requirements, including CSRD, SFDR, ISSB, California Climate Disclosure Rules. Experience using Workiva for report development is a plus. • Self-directed and highly motivated with an ability to work collaboratively and flexibly with virtual teams. • Strategic thinker with strong communication skills and a client service ethos. • An ability to manage a variety of projects at any one time with high attention to detail.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive and competitive group health, dental, and vision insurance plans for you and your dependents • FSA (Flexible Spending Account) benefit (US only) • Anthesis provides 100% Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance benefit. • In addition, Anthesis covers 100% of Short & Long‐Term Disability Insurance benefits. • Anthesis provides a 3% contribution into retirement plans, and you may elect to contribute more each pay period with a pre‐tax deduction up to a certain cap. • Anthesis provides Employee Assistance Program and Travel Insurance • Annual allotment of PTO, in addition to 56 hours of sick leave, paid company paid holidays, and more. • An opportunity to participate in the Anthesis Employee Participation Plan (EPP), an industry-pioneering employee incentive plan that allows all employees to be rewarded for the growth in the equity value of Anthesis. • Work within a highly motivated team in an innovative and rapidly growing global company. • Opportunity to have a direct impact and be a key part of the growth and development of the business and the team. • Work collaboratively on projects that have an impact on the sustainability and climate change goals/challenges for clients. • Opportunity to work alongside of, collaborate with and learn from sustainability Subject Matter Experts (SME) who are passionate about the work they do and the impact Anthesis can have.