ESG Specialist - Consulting Firm

Company: A Big 4 Consulting firm

Role: ESG reporting

Location: Mumbai

Experience: 2+ years in ESG reporting

Education: CA with experience in ESG reporting

Job Description:

- This role is a for an ESG specialist.

- Reporting to the ESG Practice Leader, this role shall project manage the ESG Reporting projects and collect, analyse and communicate data as it relates to trends in the company, provide recommendations that can help improve ESG Reporting and performance for clients across sectors, countries and ESG reporting frameworks.

- Candidate will be responsible for conducting detailed research and build understand global and local reporting and rating frameworks.

- The person should have a expert knowledge with BRSR and GRI and working knowledge on TCFD and prominent rating frameworks

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead and manage assigned ESG reporting projects, ensuring timely and successful completion within budget and scope.

- Conduct Site Visits to build the understand industry, value chain, the systems and processes and environment and social footprints.

- Conduct Materiality Assessment and Stakeholder Engagement for the clients.

- Conduct 360-degree research on Environmental and social variables of corporate performance (aspects may include waste management, plastics, circular economy, water etc. )

- Conduct business interview with business leads to understand the current ESG practises of Client.

- Identify and leverage opportunities to improve ESG reporting practices and performance for clients.

- Conduct in-depth research to understand and stay current on global and local ESG reporting frameworks, including GRI, BRSR, TCFD, and prominent rating systems such as Eco Vadis, MSCI, DJSI etc.

- Maintain the project plan for all the ongoing projects

- Conducting market/strategic research and preparation of descriptive summary statistics on various market trends on ESG

Candidate Requirements:

- The candidate should have 2-6 Years of overall experience with minimum 2 year of experience in ESG or Sustainability reporting

- Expert knowledge of BRSR, GRI, and/or TCFD reporting framework.

- Working knowledge of rating frameworks like Eco-Vadis, DJSI and MSCI

- Strong verbal and written communication skills, and preferably 2+ Years in a client-facing role

- Process driven approach, that focuses on capability development and structured scalability of systems

- Master's degree in sustainability or a related domain or a CA with relevant work experience

- Working knowledge on writing reports and blogs