Manager, ESG Advisory (Climate Reporting)

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About Us

At Acumentis, we're committed to creating opportunities and fostering inclusion within our workforce. Being an independent Australian Stock Exchange listed national company, our supportive national network spans over 350 team members across 45 regional and metropolitan locations throughout Australia.

We take pride in upholding our Guiding Principles and expect the same from our new team members. We lead by example and Never Quit. We hold ourselves accountable and Walk the Talk. We support our internal team, liaise directly with external stakeholders, and Support Our People and Clients. We act fairly and reasonably, embracing Equality of Opportunity. We are committed to developing our people into highly skilled, well-regarded professionals through mentoring and development pathways across all property types and sectors.

Fluent in AASB S2? Also fluent in CFO, COO and board?

Climate reporting has a language problem. ASRS, ISSB, Scope 3, transition risk, limited assurance. Acronyms stacked on acronyms, written by specialists for specialists. The people who have to act on it are not specialists.

Every climate disclosure has several readers. The auditor wants evidence. The CFO wants the commercial impact. The board wants to know what it is signing. Operations needs to know which risks and opportunities to act on. Most disclosures are written for one of them. Everyone else gets lost.

Acumentis ESG is the climate advisory practice within Acumentis (ASX: ACU). We are growing the team and looking for a consultant who can translate climate reporting requirements with clarity, and help us win and deliver more of this work.

As Manager, ESG Advisory, you will lead AASB S2 engagements and help grow the pipeline behind them. You will be the main contact for clients, assurance providers and delivery partners, and you will work directly with Marco Gritti, National Director, ESG.

Our clients are CFOs, Heads of Risk and Compliance and company secretaries with a board to brief and an assurance deadline that will not move. They need disclosures that hold up under review, and an adviser who can explain them and guide the process.

You will know the technical detail: climate risk registers, scenario analysis, transition plans, emissions accounting and judgement logs built for assurance. You will also know how to use it: bringing a committee to agreement, walking a CFO through an unexpected scenario and defending a judgement to an auditor.

Five languages, one job

Client

• Lead AASB S2 and ASRS engagements from scoping through to board adoption
• Own plans, timelines, budgets and resourcing, and land work on time and on fee
• Run workstreams across governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets
• Coordinate partners such as emissions data providers and fold their outputs into the disclosure

Growth

• Meet prospective clients, run scoping conversations, and write proposals and fee estimates
• Spot follow-on work in your accounts: Year 2 and 3 engagements, assurance readiness, financial quantification of climate risk, and wider Acumentis services including valuation and asset advisory
• Build relationships with assurance firms, consultancies and other referral partners
• Represent the practice at client meetings and industry events

Auditor

• Be the main contact between clients and their assurance providers under ASSA 5010 and ASSA 5000
• Build evidence files, judgement logs and audit trails that answer the question before it is asked
• Anticipate information requests and resolve issues before they become findings

Standards

• Review deliverables for technical accuracy against AASB S2 and the Corporations Act
• Take key judgements (risk ratings, materiality thresholds) through the client’s governance
• Sharpen our methodologies, templates and quality checklists

Team

• Set the quality bar and hold everyone to it, yourself included
• Keep the team current on standards, regulation and assurance practice
• Help recruit and onboard new team members as the practice grows

This role does two jobs, delivery and growth. You will carry revenue responsibility for your own work and, as the team grows, for the team’s. 

 

Your phrasebook (what you will bring)

• A tertiary qualification in accounting, finance, economics, environmental science or a related field
• 5+ years in sustainability reporting, climate risk or sustainability assurance, including time in a consulting or professional services firm (Big 4, mid-tier or specialist sustainability consultancy)
• Experience with limited or reasonable assurance over sustainability or climate disclosures (ASSA 5010, ASSA 5000 or ISAE 3000), from either side of the table
• Delivered moire than 5 AASB S2 reports and be familiar with the Corporations Act sustainability reporting requirements, and the ISSB and TCFD frameworks behind them
• A sound grasp of greenhouse gas accounting (Scopes 1, 2 and 3), scenario analysis, and physical and transition risk
• A track record of running multi-workstream engagements to deadline and budget, and of contributing to proposals or tenders

Highly regarded: CA ANZ or CPA designation, a recognised sustainability or climate risk credential, a network among corporate reporters or assurance firms, and experience with property, infrastructure or other asset-heavy clients.

The full technical and skill requirements are in the position description. To request a copy, contact people@acumentis.com.au.

Why speak it here at Acumentis ESG

• Climate advice with an asset lens. We sit within Acumentis, an independent Australian property valuation and advisory firm. Our clients get climate advice from people who understand what their assets are worth.
• Capability, not dependency. We build our clients’ capability through our free Learning Hub and Academy, so eventually they can take the work in-house. Unusual for a consultancy. Deliberate.
• Room to grow. A clear path to build the team and take on management responsibility, in a division where your judgement shapes the methodology.
• Four values. Never Quit. Walk the Talk. Support Our People and Clients. Embrace Equality of Opportunity.

Show us your ESG fluency

Send your CV and a short cover note. Tell us your superpower, the thing that makes you uniquely the best candidate for this role. Acumentis is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are happy to discuss adjustments to the recruitment process.

Acumentis is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are happy to discuss adjustments to the recruitment process.