Climate & Sustainability Advisor - #1802843
Pinsent Masons
Date: 5 hours ago
City: Belfast
Contract type: Full time
Work schedule: Full day

Job Description
CLIMATE & SUSTAINABILITY ADVISOR
LONDON (other locations in the UK considered)
Brief
We are currently looking for a Climate & Sustainability Advisor with 2 to 5 years’ of management consulting experience to join our Climate & Sustainability team in our London office (though we are open to considering any of our UK offices).
Background
Pinsent Masons is an international professional services firm with legal services at its core, with 29 offices across 4 continents. Pinsent Masons works across all sectors but with a strategic focus on financial services, real estate, infrastructure, industry and energy.
The Pinsent Masons’ Climate & Sustainability team was launched in 2020 and comprises a multidisciplinary team of lawyers, public policy advisors and sustainability consultants.
The Climate & Sustainability Advisor role will sit within the Climate & Sustainability Consulting (“CSC”) part of the team. CSC provides sustainability-related management consulting services to clients across Pinsent Masons’ sector coverage and international network.
We differentiate our services through our multidisciplinary approach. Recent examples of the innovative work we deliver include:
Pinsent Masons is seeking a professional with a strong management consulting (or similar) pedigree with ambitions to support large corporates and financial institutions with the implementation of sustainability-related strategy, risk management and reporting.
The candidate should have at least 2 to 5 years of management consulting (or similar) experience. They should also be able to demonstrate knowledge and application across some, or more, of the following aspects:
Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor, Anwen Wallington, who can discuss the role and requirements.
Contact details:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anwen-wallington-36177ba1/
[email protected]
Please note that we only accept CVs that are logged on the Recruitment portal.
#INDL
CLIMATE & SUSTAINABILITY ADVISOR
LONDON (other locations in the UK considered)
Brief
We are currently looking for a Climate & Sustainability Advisor with 2 to 5 years’ of management consulting experience to join our Climate & Sustainability team in our London office (though we are open to considering any of our UK offices).
Background
Pinsent Masons is an international professional services firm with legal services at its core, with 29 offices across 4 continents. Pinsent Masons works across all sectors but with a strategic focus on financial services, real estate, infrastructure, industry and energy.
The Pinsent Masons’ Climate & Sustainability team was launched in 2020 and comprises a multidisciplinary team of lawyers, public policy advisors and sustainability consultants.
The Climate & Sustainability Advisor role will sit within the Climate & Sustainability Consulting (“CSC”) part of the team. CSC provides sustainability-related management consulting services to clients across Pinsent Masons’ sector coverage and international network.
We differentiate our services through our multidisciplinary approach. Recent examples of the innovative work we deliver include:
- Identifying, cataloguing and assessing a multinational corporate’s supply chain sustainability regulatory and contractual requirements to support a compliance action plan.
- Conducting a double materiality assessment and independent assurance action plan for a global corporate.
- Advising on sustainable investment frameworks and product development in partnership with our fund establishment legal team.
- Advising on sustainable finance products together with our banking legal team.
- Delivering anti-greenwashing reviews for large financial institutions.
- Conducting legal and regulatory horizon scanning and advising clients on implementation plans.
- Building a sustainability reporting legal compliance tracker for a private equity firm to monitor its corporate entities and investee companies.
- Delivering sustainability implementation support through client secondments.
Pinsent Masons is seeking a professional with a strong management consulting (or similar) pedigree with ambitions to support large corporates and financial institutions with the implementation of sustainability-related strategy, risk management and reporting.
The candidate should have at least 2 to 5 years of management consulting (or similar) experience. They should also be able to demonstrate knowledge and application across some, or more, of the following aspects:
- Sustainable finance (e.g. green loans/bonds, sustainability-linked finance)
- Sustainable finance regulation (e.g. SFDR, SDR)
- Sustainability reporting regulation and standards (e.g. CSRD, ISSB, TCFD, EU Taxonomy)
- Transition planning
- Supply chain sustainability (e.g. CSDDD)
- ESG data providers and rating agencies such as: Morningstar/Sustainalytics, ISS, MSCI, Bloomberg and Refinitiv.
- A track-record of delivering successful client-outcomes
- Task prioritisation and project management in a fast moving, agile environment
- Commercial acumen and the ability to engage with senior stakeholders
- Excellent report writing and communication skills
- An attention to detail and the ability to maintain high standards of work
- An ability to analyse and interpret complex qualitative and quantitative information, translating to a simple message
- Ambition to exceed expectation
Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor, Anwen Wallington, who can discuss the role and requirements.
Contact details:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anwen-wallington-36177ba1/
[email protected]
Please note that we only accept CVs that are logged on the Recruitment portal.
#INDL
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