ERM’s Climate Risk and Opportunity Advisory (CROA) team, within our broader Corporate Sustainability & Climate Change (CS&CC) function, is growing quickly. We are looking for consultants to support us in helping our clients shape and deliver on their climate strategies and disclosures. There is a significant opportunity for individuals to progress within the organization, to take increasing responsibility for managing our work within the climate change space, and developing market-leading offerings to meet our clients’ needs. This role will focus on quantifying the financial implications of climate risk, but there are opportunities for the candidate to contribute to all of our team’s work across the climate change space (including relating to the low-carbon energy transition and net zero). More details of the role, as well as the skills required to fulfil it, are detailed below.

Role Description & Key Responsibilities

As a member of the Climate Risk and Opportunity Advisory Team, you will:

• Apply quantitative methodologies to climate risk and opportunity assessments, including financial statement analysis, discounted cash flow modelling, cost-benefit analysis, and uncertainty analysis such as Monte Carlo simulations.
• Engage directly with corporate clients, including senior leadership, to provide education on climate-related topics, and present your own analytical work and defend quantitative results.
• Build templated quantitative methodologies for climate financial risk estimation that can be leveraged on climate projects, with a focus on transition risk.
• Incorporate a wide range of data sources into your analyses including corporate financial data, geospatial climate data, academic research and industry-specific reports.
• Support the delivery of client deliverables by working with team members across the business
• Support in leading more junior staff to drive project execution, upskill staff on the job, and lead by example.
• Be willing to learn how to integrate financial models into no-code/low-code third party digital platforms (e.g. Workiva, ESG Book, One Stream)
• A key aspect of this will be to communicate the findings in a digestible way including developing client curiosity regarding how they start their journey to transitioning to a low carbon economy. Will be required to facilitate workshops and develop relationships with our clients.
• Support business development and sales-related activities, including helping senior leaders to draft client proposals and develop new offers;
• Contribute to ERM’s innovation and knowledge-sharing through ad-hoc involvement in thought leadership, internal newsletters, learning sessions, amongst other initiatives

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Well-placed candidates will match some or a significant part of the specification below:

Required:

• Background Academic and/or professional experience in climate change / sustainability as well as finance/economics.  Understands the fundamentals of why climate change is happening, how it will start to affect business models/strategy/company revenue, Capex, Opex and familiar with the concepts of decarbonization & net zero pathways. Experience in leveraging climate transition scenarios (IEA, NGFS or custom scenarios);
  • Motivational Fit – Produce high-quality client-ready deliverables, can work independently, team player, demonstrates critical thinking and is comfortable with ambiguity;
  • Experience of Financial Modelling - Advanced user of Microsoft Excel with experience building financial models, conducting quantitative analysis and data manipulation (knowledge of climate change is highly desirable)
  • Communication - Excellent communication skills, particularly relating to packaging complex outputs into a digestible format and communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience through workshops and presentations.

Desired:

• Familiarity with climate and/or financial audit and regulatory frameworks such as TCFD/CSRD/IFRS;
• Familiar with how transition risks can impact supply chains.
• Experience (whether through study or a professional role) of working with climate related risks and opportunities.

Experience:

• Graduate or postgraduate-level, with 1-2 years of relevant professional experience

ERM & CLIMATE CHANGE

ERM is a leading global provider of environmental, health, safety, risk, social consulting services and sustainability related services. We work with the world's leading organizations, delivering innovative solutions and helping them to understand and manage their sustainability challenges. The key sectors we serve include oil & gas, mining & metals, power, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, chemical, and technology, media & telecommunications. All face critical sustainability challenges and our clients in these and many other areas rely on our ability to assist them operate more sustainably which has a positive impact on our planet.

You can learn more about ERM, as well as our vision and values here.

ERM’s Climate Risk and Opportunity Advisory team in the U.S.is the company’s global centre of excellence for climate advisory. We  take a quantitative approaching to helping our diverse client base understand the climate risks they may face, and to capitalize on their opportunities relating to a low-energy transition. We are experts in undertaking scenario-based exercises to determine how climate change might impact our clients’ businesses, and we help them understand how to respond. Our work extends to climate governance, climate risk management, climate strategy planning, as well as corporate climate disclosure.