Sr Sustainability Reporting Analyst
Cincinnati, OH
Chicago, IL
Grand Rapids, MI
Charlotte, NC
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General Function
The Senior Sustainability Reporting Analyst will lead key activities to support the development and execution of the bank’s sustainability reporting. In collaboration with the Chief Sustainability Officer and key internal stakeholders, the position will exercise full proficiency in implementing the Bank’s sustainability goals as well as supporting efforts to identify, manage, and measure related risks and opportunities within our operations, lending, and investment portfolios. This position will support sustainability reporting including disclosures on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) reports as well as enterprise reporting. The role will feature opportunities to undertake a range of responsibilities, so qualifications include implementing quantitative and qualitative methods along with the ability to develop internal and external stakeholder relationships and support collaboration to drive change.
This position is responsible and accountable for risk by openly exchanging ideas and opinions, elevating concerns, and personally following policies and procedures as defined. Accountable for always doing the right thing for customers and colleagues and ensuring that actions and behaviors drive a positive customer experience. While operating within the Bank's risk appetite, this position achieves results by consistently identifying, assessing, monitoring, managing, and reporting risks of all types.
Essential Duties & Responsbilities
- Lead the setting, implementing, and achieving the company’s sustainability goals. Support sustainability disclosures in the Sustainability and TCFD reports, sustainability surveys, and requests from investors, sustainability ratings organizations, and other third parties.
- Conduct and leverage research and analysis to contribute to the maturation of Bank’s identification and management of sustainability-related risks in our lending portfolio, identify and assess new business opportunities, and integrate sustainability issues into our corporate strategy.
- Develop reporting packages for internal and external reporting; provide analytics that provide insight and enable better decision making.
- Lead communications to educate, highlight and activate sustainability leadership achievements, opportunities.
- Successfully execute reporting and analytics. Analyze data to make proactive recommendations / solutions to drive and enhance sustainability and ESG performance.
- Document, evaluate and improve design of reports and processes to ensure analytical tools evolve as the business changes.
- Develop trend analyses and other quantitative reports to determine business trends.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge base to keep current on existing and emerging issues; apply this knowledge to assist stakeholders in improving the bank’s ESG performance.
- Develop recommendations and action plans to support growth and eliminate or mitigate observed risks.
- Perform Business Intelligence (i.e., key performance indicators, executive dashboards, reporting).
- Lead junior level staff as needed.
- Develop analytical models to identify patterns in data.
- Investigate and document unusual items, in addition to monthly ad-hoc reports, data analysis, and recommendations.
- Perform maintenance on existing schedules and reports for changes to information.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: None.
Minimum Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required. Business administration, economics, engineering, public policy, sustainability, or a related field preferred. Master’s degree is preferred.
- 5-7 years of related reporting or sustainability experience.
- Exceptional ability to review, analyze, gain insights, and present conclusions from complex qualitative and quantitative datasets.
- Comprehensive understanding of sustainability metrics, reporting standards, and sustainability writing and reporting experience.
- Knowledge and experience with greenhouse gas accounting, CDP, TCFD, GRI, SASB, SBTi preferred.
- Advance Excel experience with the ability to manipulate data using formulas, pivot tables, macros, and modeling.
- Superb written and oral communication skills; ability to present information succinctly and visually in PowerPoint.
- Self-motivation and self-starter skills, proactive, and able to work independently with limited supervision.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work across departments to achieve mutually beneficial results.
- Exceptional analytical and research skills, with the ability to gather information quickly and to synthesize into actionable information
- Ability to deliver results in a highly matrixed and changing environment.
Working Conditions
- Normal office environment with little exposure to dust, noise, temperature, and the like.
- Extended time at desk and/or viewing computer screens.