Climate and Decarbonization - Manager

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About EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) – Climate Change and Sustainability Services

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) Assurance practice supports global EY client–serving teams with their reviews across industry sectors, including financial services, manufacturing, and technology, among others. Through the right multidisciplinary team of professionals with the sector knowledge and subject matter expertise, EY GDS Assurance enables EY client teams in over 30 countries to help world’s leading companies meet their audit requirements.

EY’s global Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCaSS) enable companies to survive and grow in an environment where increasingly, both financial and non-financial performance is critical. Our multidisciplinary teams can help companies understand the risks and opportunities arising from climate change and sustainability issues. Our solutions cover Climate Change & Decarbonisation, Sustainability Advisory, Non-Financial Reporting, ESG Assurance, EHS and Managed Services.  EY’s global clientele includes clients in the financial services sector such as banking, asset management and insurance, as well as in the non-financial services sectors such as oil & gas, utilities, and transportation.

Position summary

The role is for the Climate Change & Decarbonisation services of CCaSS, with focus on the non - financial services sector. The Manager will be responsible for working closely with Partners, Senior Managers, Assistant Managers, Seniors and Staff on client engagements. The primary responsibility will be consulting with clients on decarbonisation and climate change capabilities; collaborating with partners, senior managers and clients to influence strategy, balancing risk and client expectations; ensuring our engagement team thoroughly understands our clients’ unique needs, ambitions and expectations; building relationships with colleagues across multiple service lines to provide seamless integrated service; managing performance and identifying opportunities to improve our products and processes.

The individual will be required to travel to other Countries (short term) for executing client engagements.

Primary responsibilities

• Execute the following CCaSS solutions using Global service delivery framework:
  • Climate Change and Decarbonization including Net-zero Strategy and Commitments
  • Energy efficiency and transition
  • Clean / renewable energy integration
  • Carbon offset / trading
  • Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS)
  • ESG reporting and Circular economy
• A proven record of excellence managing, mentoring, and upskilling a team of high-performing colleagues
• Proven track record on researching and resolving emerging client issues, including regulations, industry practices and new technologies
• Provide subject matter expertise on decarbonisation and climate change areas, inter-alia, including risk frameworks, governance, management and measurement, stress testing, strategy, and regulatory expectations
• Contribute to materials, tools, and methodologies to support CCaSS proposition in client meetings, engagements, events, and broader thought leadership
• Maintain detailed knowledge of global Sustainability regulations and awareness of market trends, competitor activity and offerings
• Lead engagements, delivering high quality Sustainability solutions to our clients, including managing the delivery team
• Manage and grow GDS CCaSS services to multiple regions, with high quality service across all CCaSS engagements, by being connected, responsive and insightful internally and with clients.
• Deliver training on CCaSS methodology and other current market trends and industry issues
• Strong focus on operational excellence, efficiency, and cost. It is critical to improve overall utilization levels in GDS CCaSS, especially at senior and manager levels, while increasing overall retention and ensuring people development.

Qualifications, skills, and experience

• Post graduate degree in sustainability/environment or engineering (chemical/mechanical/civil) from reputed institutes in India with a focus on environment, sustainability, and climate change issues.
• 7–11 years of experience in the space of decarbonisation and climate change, environment, and sustainability preferably with reputed consulting firms, financial services institutions, or research firms
• Knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations such as EBA, ECB, FED, PRA, APRA, HKMA, MAS etc., industry initiatives such as UNEPFI, Share Action, PRI, SBTI etc. and codes of practice as well as a good understanding of the issues within the Sustainability industry, such as Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), amongst others
• Knowledge of climate risk modelling (methodology for assessing Transition risk, Physical Risk and Paris Pathway alignment) would be a plus
• Understanding of ESG data, KPIs and data vendors and service providers would be a plus
• Practical experience with energy and emissions reporting schemes including National Greenhouse Emissions Reporting (NGER) scheme, the Safeguard Mechanism, and the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF); as well as climate risk advisory experience such as experience with the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) Framework.
• Sound understanding of sustainability issues and mega trends across various industry sectors
• Ability to lead with teams in varied contexts & environment
• Relationship building skills with global leadership; ability to interact with all levels credibly
• Influencing skills -ability to work within ambiguity and build consensus across diverse groups.
• Demonstrates passion & energy at work and in promoting EY values & behaviours
• Excellent communication & articulation skills with focus on stakeholder management
• Flexibility and willingness to travel on short notice, where necessary

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