Senior consultant, Climate Change and Sustainability Services Financial Services Geneva

Job description

Requisition ID: 1509810

Your ambition 

Are you passionate about sustainability and thrive in solving challenging tasks that directly contribute to a better environment and society? Do you enjoy working with financial sector in supporting their sustainability ambitions and challenges? Join our growing Climate Change and Sustainability Services Team within EY! 

EY’s response and support to our Clients 

The world is facing one of the biggest challenges of humankind – constant changing of climate under today’s way we conduct economic activities. Governments and public sector in general are increasingly steeping into the role of securing sustainable development in line with the Paris Agreement, and companies and financial institutions alike are required to embrace new sustainable practices while departing from business as usual.

When the financial services industry works well, it creates growth, prosperity, and peace of mind for hundreds of millions of people. No other industry touches so many lives or shapes so many futures. At EY Financial Services, we share a single focus — to build a better financial services industry, not just for now, but for the future.

Sustainability is at the heart of our EY brand. It is at the heart of our strategy, what we value and measure and what we do every day with our clients and within our own business. We are proud to be advocates of change to make businesses across the world more sustainable because we believe in long-term value. Delivering sustainable long-term value in Financial Services means new strategies, a new approach to managing risks, new products and services and new ways of engaging stakeholders.

Opportunity

EY is currently working across the capital markets globally with institutional investors, banking, private equity and insurance clients, developing strategies, designing and building innovative solutions to move forward on sustainable finance, meeting regulatory requirements and positioning for success in this rapidly evolving market.

You will join a team of over 3,000 climate change and sustainability practitioners globally, presenting a unique opportunity to make a real difference. We are looking for a high performing Senior Consultant to join our Climate Change and Sustainable Services team dedicated to Financial Services. You will be working on market leading projects, building networks, and consulting on key strategic issues in sustainable finance.

There is a wide range of exciting projects that you will be able to get involved in, across banking, insurance, pensions, wealth and asset management and private equity. You will work with clients at all levels to deliver first-class services helping them navigate the ESG agenda. Topics we cover include: 

• Sustainable Finance regulatory developments and requirements by the financial sector from the EU regulatory side (such as SFDR and EU Taxonomy) and Swiss regulatory side (such as RBI); 
• Reporting and disclosure, including the application of TCFD, GRI, ISSB and other frameworks; 
• Sustainable finance and net zero strategies for financial services; 
• Climate change metrics and targets, greenhouse gas reporting, including the SBTi, Greenhouse Gas Protocol and PCAF; 
• Responsible, sustainable and impact investment strategies and implementation; 

• Delivery of projects to our clients on a wide range of sustainability topics we work on, such as Regulation implementation, Sustainability Reporting & Assurance engagements for our clients from financial services organizations. 
• Create innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership. 
• Actively contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives, consistently driving projects to completion making sure that the work delivered is industry leading. 
• Work with the project heads to lead teams or parts of teams on engagements, keeping a clear focus on anticipating and identifying risks, and escalate issues as appropriate. 
• Working closely with colleagues, create a positive learning culture and coach and counsel junior team members and help them to develop. 
• Contribute to the development of EY capabilities in technical areas and engage with clients regarding the application of these methodologies to their businesses. 
• Collaborate with colleagues outside of CCaSS to deliver multi-disciplinary and cross-geographical work.