Director - ESG Advisory - Financial Services

Job Description:

The position is with Financial Services and they are looking for Director - ESG Advisory

Position: Director - ESG Advisory

Position Purpose:

- Role requires the person to develop and maintain ESG product / service and support the relationship teams.

- The role requires candidate to work in environment with diversity of work, and someone who embraces to work both independently and in teams.

- Candidate should have research and analytical bent of mind to understand and make use of various research reports on ESG topics and can incorporate the knowledge & understanding in development of products and services.

- The role requires the candidate to demonstrate the high degree of problem-solving capacity and ability to come up with innovative solutions

- Strong knowledge on concepts like ESG, climate change, ESG reporting standards, regulations

Key Responsibilities:

- Candidate should have min. 13-16 years' experience of implementing sustainability programs at corporate level or have strong consulting experience in Environment and Social aspects

- Candidate should be well versed with sustainability reporting standards and frameworks such as BRSR, GRI, SASB, IIRC, IFRS S1 and S2

- Candidate should have demonstrated experience in developing decarbonization strategy and implemented the same in sectors like steel, cement, O&G, chemicals, metals and mining

Candidate should have exposure in atleast two or more following areas:

- Implementing programs like LCA, EIA, SIA studies -

- Net zero targets through SBTi

- Knowledge on standards - ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, 50001

- Double materiality assessment

- ESG due diligence basis IFC PS

- Partner with across teams on developing proposals, tracking and applying to tenders and engage with companies on various ESG related deliverables

Skill set required:

- Strong domain knowledge on Sustainability, leading practices and regulations

- Strong communication skills (written and verbal)

- Intermediate to advance level Microsoft Excel and PPT skills

- Ability to multi task. Should be able to lead multiple projects and deliverables

- Ability to work Independently or within group as per project requirements