Analyst- Carbon Accounting/ Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Working with one of the top financial clients this role calls for an Analyst- Carbon Accounting/ Greenhouse Gas Emissions who will be responsible for helping clients measure and reduce their carbon footprint by designing and overseeing the continuous enhancement of measurement methodologies and emission factors for scopes 1, 2, and 3. The successful candidate has practical expertise in conducting greenhouse gas inventories, managing the quality and accuracy of emission factor sources and calculations, and projecting the impact of emission reduction strategies against targets in support of thousands of clients within the client and beyond.

Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance on how to best incorporate target-setting pathways into the software for clients.
• Expand tagging and filtering options in reductions modules
• Be the voice of Climate Smart’s clients within the Product team
• Provide guidance on how to best incorporate GHG inventory boundary-setting and emission reductions for the Climate Smart software.
• Recommendations on methodology reviews and improvements, research and provide new emission factor additions across sectors, activities and geographies
• Define and manage growth and QC of the reduction strategy database
• Provide insights into feature development to ensure we address not only GHG protocol requirements but also internal and external partners.
• Lead the implementation of scope 3 category expansion for service and software, including guidance on integrating additional spending, cost, and other proxy variables into the software.
• Provide expertise directly to customers when appropriate to assist with unique measurement questions.
• Train Service Delivery team on emission factors updates or additions and assist with the development of documentation for internal and external clients.
• Develop test plans in collaboration with QA to validate calculations.
• Review documentation such as self-help articles prepared for accuracy and understanding for clients

Desired Skill Set:

• Experience modeling decarbonization pathways and abatement curves, understanding of climate disclosure policies and regulations, and/or strong understanding of benchmarking methodologies as an asset
• Technical degree or engineering experience with demonstrated ability to build user-friendly templates, calculators, and presentations for non-technical audiences
• 5 years minimum experience in Organizational Corporate greenhouse gas emissions.
• Quick learner who enjoys researching, understanding and describing the practical application of the software.
• Strong project management skills with demonstrated systems to document and track project decisions
• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills as well as presentation skills using powerpoint.
• Excellent creative problem-solving skills
• High proficiency with Excel (Synthesize large data sets, Find insight and trends, Clean Large Data sets and make recommendations based on the finding)
• Flexible, proactive and enjoys working in a collaborative team environment.
• Ability to juggle multiple projects to deadline while maintaining a high-quality work
• Great relationship management skills
• Strong Liaison skills in relations skills to data translation
• Experience with corporate greenhouse gas inventories as a consultant or in-house. Scope 3 accounting categories and/or quantifying for a multi-national asset.

Nice To Have:

• Previous experience as a consultant identifying and scoping their own Greenhouse gas protocol with various businesses.
• Experience with similar tools such as Watershed, Plan A etc.

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