Consultant, Climate Change and Sustainability Services Financial Services

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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 as part of a wider Assurance Advisory team within EY!

The world is facing one of the biggest challenges of humankind – constant changing of climate under today’s way we conduct economic activities. Climate change is no longer a distant sustainability concern but an immediate and systemic risk. Increasingly severe physical impacts (such as extreme weather events, resource scarcity, and infrastructure damage) combined with accelerating regulatory and market transitions are forcing governments and companies to fundamentally adapt their strategies, moving away from business-as-usual models.

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.

We are looking for a high performing Consultant to join our Climate Change and Sustainable Services team dedicated to Financial Services. You will join a rapidly growing team of climate change and sustainability practitioners globally, with your base in Geneva or Zurich, Switzerland, embracing a unique opportunity to make a real difference. 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 rapidly evolving sustainability agenda. Topics we cover include:

• Sustainable Finance regulatory developments and requirements by the financial sector from the EU regulatory side (such as CSRD, EU Taxonomy and SFDR) and Swiss regulatory side (such as RBI, FINMA requirements and AMAS, SBA, SIA self-regulations);
• Reporting and disclosure, including the application of ESRS, ISSB, TCFD, GRI, TNFD and other frameworks;
• Sustainable finance and net zero strategies, such as transition plans, 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;

• You have an agile, growth-oriented mindset. What you know matters. But the right mindset is just as important in determining success. We’re looking for people who are innovative, motivated, committed, can work in an agile way and keep pace with a rapidly changing world.
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