Sustainability Advisor

7 months ago

Toronto, Canada Institutional Shareholder Services Full time

Companies increasingly focus on refining their disclosures and management practices around their environmental and social practices, impacts, and risks. Boards and executive teams seek expert guidance on industry norms and best practices, stakeholder expectations, reporting standards and frameworks, and a better understanding of prevailing ESG ratings, such as ISS ESG Corporate Rating and ISS QualityScore.
- ISS Corporate Solutions (ICS) is a subsidiary of ISS that provides publicly traded companies with advisory services and software solutions to help solve a wide range of critical environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. The Sustainability Advisory - Advisor role on the ICS team is a fast-paced client-facing role that provides advisory and consulting services on critical environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues to senior executives at the world’s largest companies.- The Role-
- Most of our sustainability work involves helping companies optimize their public environmental and social disclosures to increase transparency in alignment with standards, frameworks, and stakeholder expectations.- Responsibilities- On a daily basis, you will:
- Work as a member of sector-focused team specializing on key issues most relevant to the industries the team covers.
- Manage a client portfolio by proactively engaging with clients and responding to questions in a timely manner
- Form and sustain ongoing relationships with senior client executives and management teams to understand their needs and provide them with context and advice tailored to their challenges and goals.
- Analyze evolving ESG trends—including reporting standards, rating systems, and shareholder expectations—to identify key disclosures on which clients should focus.
- Produce and deliver polished client deliverables and discuss them in detail with sustainability and legal executives.
- Synthesize information from our ESG databases and platform to uncover actionable intelligence on ESG disclosures and practices.
- Develop industry-leading intellectual capital and thought leadership on ESG topics, including whitepapers, toolkits, webinars, and presentations for individual clients and at industry conferences.
- The role requires 10% travel or less, typically for conference attendance and occasional client visits.
- Qualifications- Degree in Business, Finance, Sustainability, Environmental Science, or a related field with an exceptional performance record
- At least 3-5 years of successful work experience related to sustainability reporting and strategy, sustainability research, and/or successful work experience related to advisory, consulting, client-facing role
- Familiarity with Sustainable Finance, Responsible Investing, Proxy Advisory
- Strong understanding of climate related business risk and climate business strategy development
- Familiarity with GRI, SASB, TCFD, and other market standards and guidelines
- Effective time management skills and ability to meet deadlines
- Excellent organization, multitasking, and prioritization skills
- Analytical Skills_
- Strong analytical skills
- Superior problem-solving skills
- Ability to diagnose client needs and identify relevant resources
- Proficiency in distilling data using Excel, SQL, or other tools
- Extreme attention to detail
- Proactive in turning to others for assistance when required
- Ability to understand intersection of various sustainability reporting standards
- Communication and Client Management Skills_
- Team player, working collaboratively with peers and managers to best serve our clients
- Ability to present professionally and authoritatively
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to foster and maintain collaborative relationships in a cross-functional environment
- Capacity to quickly establish relationships with executives and be seen as a resource
- Demonstrated poise and grace under pressure
- Should be solutions-focused and contribute to team’s continuous improvement
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