Trainee Analyst / Analyst / Senior Analyst

Trainee Analyst / Analyst / Senior Analyst

Climate Change and Sustainability Service (CCaSS) is a practice within EY dedicated to building a better working world by helping businesses respond to societal, environmental, and economic challenges resulting from shifting market demands and the changing economic and regulatory environment. Our team helps clients in understanding and assessing the wider impact and outcomes associated with their organisations, activities, programs, projects, and overall sustainability reporting in accordance with new regulations.

The opportunity:
As a Trainee Analyst/Analyst/Senior Analyst in Climate Change and Sustainability Service, you will spend most of your time assisting clients to identify, measure, and manage their business and reporting risks as they transit their organisations in response to changing government environmental regulations and new trends in sustainability management and reporting. You will be assisting in providing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) expertise to deliver different ESG-related services, ESG due diligence, and value creation projects for our clients. You will also work on educating clients on the new regulatory requirements related to ESG, GRI, IR, SASB, and ISSB and support them in the non-financial reporting process.

What we look for:
Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritise shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry. An effective communicator, you’ll be a confident team player who collaborates with people from various teams while looking to develop your career in a dynamic organisation.
 

Your key responsibilities:
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team across a range of industries, assisting organisations on how they manage and report on a broad range of sustainability, climate-related risks and impacts.
• Contribute to strategy, solutions, methodologies, analytical frameworks, and tools to help clients succeed and navigate complex regulatory environments and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Assist clients to develop and implement sustainability strategies, develop targets, and implement plans to enhance sustainability value for a broad range of sustainability topics, including diversity, waste, and environmental impacts. 
• Assist clients with the implementation of non-financial reporting processes, including the application of GRI, IR, SASB, IFRS, and KPI calculations.
• Assurance of non-financial reporting, including sustainability metrics across a range of industry sectors.
• Conduct Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Scope 1, 2 & 3 Reporting and Assurance Engagements according to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and other relevant standards and frameworks.
• Conduct Gap Analysis, Materiality and Stakeholder assessments and ESG Due Diligence and Impact Assessments To qualify for the role, you must have:
• A degree, preferably in finance, accounting, environmental management, sustainability, or professional qualification in the same field
• Knowledge and interest in sustainability-related areas or topics
• Strong technical, quantitative, project management, and analytical skills 
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills
• Ability to commute to the Head Office - EY Sri Lanka (Colombo 03) on all working days

Ideally, you'll also require:
• Professional presence with the ability to engage management-level clients as well as internal leadership stakeholders 
• Ability to analyse complex or unusual issues in the context of client engagements and deliver insightful and pragmatic solutions
 

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible. 

Applications must be submitted by the 31st of March, 2025