Associate, Sustainability & Climate

Sodali & Co is a leading provider of shareholder engagement advisory and governance consulting services to corporate clients around the world. The firm provides corporate boards and executives with strategic advice and services relating to a broad range of activities, including mergers and acquisitions, annual and special meetings, shareholder activism initiatives, multinational cross-border transactions, sustainability issues and debt restructuring. From headquarters in New York, London, and Sydney with offices in the world’s major capital markets, Sodali & Co serves more than 2,000 corporate clients in over 80 countries, including many of the largest multinational corporations.

In addition to listed and private companies, the firm’s clients include mutual funds, ETFs, stock exchanges and membership associations.

The Associate, Sustainability & Climate works within our consulting team to advise clients through multifaceted engagements across sectors, spanning both sustainability and climate-focused work. On the sustainability side, this includes developing ESG visions, strategies, and goals, and helping clients influence performance. On the climate side, this includes developing greenhouse gas emissions inventories, setting carbon emission reduction targets, developing climate transition strategies, verifying carbon emissions, and assessing climate risks.

You will conduct complex analyses and research to create and contribute to client deliverables and will be trained in our approach to client work and across all our services and methodologies. You will significantly contribute to the planning and implementation of client projects as an experienced contributor or technical lead.

• Manage the end-to-end process of developing clients’ annual sustainability and ESG reports in partnership with a cross-functional team of stakeholders.
• Manage quantitative data collection processes including primary and secondary data, ESG initiatives surveys, perform greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) accounting and verification.
• Deliver on end-to-end Science Based Targets work streams, from carbon footprint baseline year calculations to carbon reduction forecasting / pathways and submission to the SBTi.
• Assess climate-related risks, including physical and transition risks.
• Perform research on climate policies and industry practices.
• Conduct analyses of climate-related data from various sources to identify trends, patterns, risks, and opportunities.
• Prepare presentations, reports, workbooks, and other client deliverables.
• Support stakeholder engagement interviews across a variety of functions and industries to gather underreported or new ESG performance data and information.
• Contribute to firm internal efforts including business development, thought leadership, and administrative activities.

• Havepreviousexperience in corporate sustainability/ESG reporting, climate consulting, or general management consulting, with a demonstrated interest in ESG and climate issues.
• Understand sustainability, ESG, and climate accounting, management, and disclosure standards and regulatory frameworks such as SASB, TCFD, IFRS, GRESB, ISO 14064, CDP, SBTi, EU Taxonomy, SFDR, CA SB 253, CA SB 261, and EU CSRD.
• Have experience with ESG ratings providers and assessments such as ISS, MSCI, Sustainalytics, CDP, S&P Global CSA, and GRESB.
• Have experience and knowledge of the GHG Protocol and related standards (e.g., Scope 2 Standard, Product Standard, Scope 3 Standard, etc.).
• Understand how to implement sustainability, ESG, SBTi, and net zero initiatives, with a particular interest in ESG and climate risk assessment and ESG data management.
• Have strong analytical, technical, and database management skills.
• Be able to communicate and give presentations effectively and professionally.
• Possess strong writing and editing abilities.
• Haveadvanced PowerPoint and Excel skills. Experience with Power Query, Power BI, SQL, or Python is a plus, though not required.
• Background in statistics, data modeling, or business analytics is a plus.
• Familiarity with AI tools and prompt engineering, with an interest in integrating…