Department: Advisory - ESG & Mandatory Reporting
Location: Canada
Compensation: Senior Consultant: $78,500 – 93,000 CAD / Principal Consultant: $102,500 – 120,000 CAD
Description
About Anthesis:
Anthesis is the sustainability activator. Proud to be a B Corp, we seek to make a significant contribution to a world which is more resilient and productive. We do this by working with cities, corporates, investors and other organisations to drive sustainable performance. We develop financially driven sustainability strategies, underpinned by technical expertise and delivered by innovative collaborative teams across the world.
Anthesis has clients across all industry sectors and supports some of the world's largest multinationals such as Amazon, Cisco, The North Face, and Target. The company brings together 1,300+ experts operating in 42 countries around the world and has offices in Andorra, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Middle East, the Philippines, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, the UK, and the US.
At Anthesis Group, we are truly committed to putting people and our planet at the heart of all we do.
We encourage all employees to contribute their ideas, perspectives, and experiences to help us create an inclusive and equitable workplace. By embracing diversity and providing equal opportunities, we believe we can drive innovation, foster creativity, and achieve our shared goals. So, if you're ready to be a part of something truly extraordinary, then we want you! Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identify, national origin, age, pregnancy, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Together, we can continue to build a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed and thrive.
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Summary Of Role & Key Responsibilities
We are an innovative leader in corporate ESG reporting, helping companies navigate the evolving reporting landscape and stakeholder needs. We produce top-tier sustainability and ESG reports, public disclosures to key standards, implement practices to improve ESG ratings, and create communications to share our clients' stories with diverse stakeholders. We are looking for senior and principal consultant level practitioners who can effectively guide clients through the planning, development, design, publication, and socialization phases of their sustainability and ESG reports. In this role you will also help clients understand the evolving landscape of voluntary standards and mandatory ESG disclosure requirements and guide clients in responding to these expectations.
Key Responsibilities:
Project Management
- As a Senior Consultant/Principal Consultant in our ESG Reporting & Disclosure Service Line, you will be expected to support and/or manage the delivery of client engagements targeted at improving clients ESG reporting and disclosure. Delivering tasks on time and within budget, and with quality, either as, or in support of, the project manager / project lead to ensure that projects meet or exceed targets and deadlines. You could be managing several projects at any one time, each with their own dedicated project teams.
Client Management
- Working with a senior client manager, you will share responsibility for managing client expectations as well as helping them optimize value through projects to drive continuous, strategic improvement. You will work to develop a trusted advisor relationship with all clients and focus relentlessly on helping them be successful in defining and achieving their reporting and disclosure goals.
Sustainability/ ESG Reporting & Disclosure
- You will be coaching clients on the evolving sustainability/ ESG reporting landscape and supporting them in the development of meaningful public disclosure strategies that both tell their stories in an authentic way and optimize their scoring in various ESG standards, frameworks, and assessment platforms. You will develop content, including writing and editing reports, disclosures and other communications materials. You will also support reporting strategy projects via rater and framework gap analysis, benchmarking and reporting trends analysis as well as support the client 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, customer surveys, employees, etc.).
ESG Performance
- You will be advising clients how to prioritize, evaluate and improve their ESG performance through strategic, programmatic and disclosure recommendations. This will include desktop research, internal and external stakeholder engagement, and the integration of ESG data management tools and / or advanced data analytics.
Business Development
- In collaboration with a senior client manager, you will be contributing to and developing proposals for potential clients and projects and expanding scopes of engagement and support with existing clients, helping them drive their sustainability agenda. You will also support leadership in evolving our services to help our clients with regulatory compliance, regulatory change management, mandatory reporting readiness, and other enterprise-level ESG compliance needs.
Thought Leadership
- Staying informed of the ever-changing regulatory landscape, trends and developments related to ESG reporting, communications, and disclosure, and providing advice and thought leadership on such changes for clients and internal teams.
Key Requirements & Skills, Knowledge And Expertise
- Senior Consultant: 4+ years of experience as a sustainability practitioner, with experience supporting a company's ESG strategy and disclosures.
- Principal Consultant: 6+ years of experience as a sustainability practitioner, with experience supporting a company's ESG strategy and disclosures.
- Knowledge and understanding of sustainability/ESG issues and related reporting trends, drivers and frameworks with the ability to identify and articulate opportunities to improve ESG disclosure and performance.
- Proficiency in some of the following disclosures: CDP (Climate, Water, and/ or Forest), and some of S&P Global CSA (DJSI), MSCI, Sustainalytics, ISS, EcoVadis.
- Proficiency in the following reporting standards or frameworks: Integrated Reporting, GRI, ISSB SASB Standards, TCFD.
- Familiarity with existing and pending ESG disclosure requirements: SFDR, CSRD, ISSB, SEC, etc.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise:
- Self-directed, 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.
Please note this position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
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.
