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About the role:
As a Senior Consultant, you will play a key role in delivering sustainability assurance engagements, climate reporting assurance, greenhouse gas (GHG) assurance, and sustainability reporting projects. You will work closely with clients to evaluate the completeness, accuracy and reliability of sustainability information and support organisations in preparing for increasing assurance requirements under sustainability reporting regulations.
Working under the direction of senior leaders, you will contribute to assurance engagements across a range of industries, including assurance over climate disclosures, GHG inventories, sustainability metrics, governance processes, controls, and sustainability reporting frameworks. The role involves planning and executing assurance procedures, assessing evidence, evaluating controls, identifying reporting risks, and preparing high-quality assurance documentation and client deliverables.
You will build expertise in sustainability assurance standards, climate reporting requirements, greenhouse gas accounting methodologies, and assurance methodologies while contributing to the development of the firm's sustainability assurance capability.
Key Responsibilities
Project Delivery
Support the end-to-end delivery of sustainability assurance engagements, including planning, risk assessment, testing, evidence gathering, documentation and reporting.
Perform assurance procedures over sustainability metrics, climate disclosures, greenhouse gas inventories, energy data, and other ESG information.
Evaluate the design and implementation of controls supporting sustainability reporting processes and data collection systems.
Review source documentation, perform data traceability testing, and assess the reliability and completeness of sustainability information.
Conduct testing of Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions calculations and assess compliance with relevant methodologies and reporting frameworks.
Identify exceptions, control deficiencies, data quality issues, and reporting risks, and communicate findings to engagement managers.
Prepare assurance workpapers and documentation in accordance with applicable assurance standards and internal methodologies.
Support readiness assessments and pre-assurance reviews to help organisations prepare for external assurance requirements.
Assist in the development of management recommendations to strengthen sustainability governance, controls, and reporting processes.
Deliver engagements in accordance with agreed scope, budgets, timelines, and quality requirements.
Support sustainability reporting, climate reporting, and advisory engagements where required.
Technical Capability
Apply sustainability assurance standards and methodologies, including ISSA 5000, ASAE 3000, ASAE 3410, and other relevant assurance frameworks.
Apply sustainability reporting frameworks including…