Climate Reporting Specialist

The Climate Reporting Specialist position at Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) offers a hybrid work model, allowing remote work from anywhere while encouraging regular office visits in Edmonton or Calgary. The role involves supporting sustainability and climate-related disclosures, ensuring compliance with regulations, and improving data management processes. Candidates should have over 5 years of relevant experience, a degree in a related field, and skills in data science and analytics.
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Climate Reporting Specialist

Apply remote type Hybrid locations Edmonton Calgary time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago time left to apply End Date:
February 11, 2025 (12 days left to apply) job requisition

CLOSING DATE:

February 11, 2025
Opportunity

Work our way from Edmonton, or Calgary. Our flexible work style lets you work remotely while allowing regular visits to our vibrant offices, where you can soak up our culture and collaborate with colleagues.

Reporting to the Senior Climate Reporting and Disclosure Manager, the Climate Reporting Specialist will support the development and implementation of AIMCo specific, investment-focused sustainability- and climate-related disclosures.
Responsibilities Include:
• Partner with key stakeholders and monitor for relevant developments from regulatory bodies to ensure compliance to new and emerging sustainability- and climate-related disclosure requirements.
• Assist in advancing the reporting strategy through the review of scope, purpose, structure, and synergies across adjacent reports, such as the Annual Report and recommends fit-for-purpose governance, controls, and processes.
• Liaises with the Sustainable Investing group and other internal stakeholders to identify data sources, processes, and controls for collecting carbon emission data, inclusive of working with data owners to improve data availability, compilation, management, and QA processes.
• Plans and performs detailed process walk-throughs and develop testing procedures and reviews documentation.
• Reviews and validates the bespoke carbon emission calculations deriving from the consolidated approach for Client carbon emission reporting, which differs from the operational control approach selected for AIMCo as a reporting entity.
• Oversees design and implementation of the standard operating model, procedures and processes and monitors compliance by the team for the purpose of continuously improving operations to maximize productivity and efficiency.
• Subject matter expert on climate and sustainability financial related reporting & disclosure, including measurement, disclosure requirements, standards, framework and industry trends and legislation. Maintains departmental standards and the quality of audit engagements in line with the documented audit procedures.
Our Ideal Candidate

Qualifications:
• 5+ years of progressive experience executing corporate climate and sustainability reporting and disclosure initiatives and/or experience in the review and application of generally accepted accounting principles.
• University degree in Finance Accounting, Business Management, Sustainability Management or equivalent with a focus on data, analytics, and reporting. Having completed the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program would be considered an asset.
• Experience in data science, python, SQL and analytics tools.
• Experience proposing, initiating and managing cross-functional internal and external partnerships and collaborations and building strong, mutually beneficial stakeholder relationships.
• Experience with key carbon emission and ESG performance indicators.
• Understanding of the audit process and audit approaches, as well as expectations of the internal and external auditors.
• Working knowledge and experience with TCFD, IFRS S1 and S2, CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) 1 and 2, PCAF (Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials), evolving sustainability and climate-related reporting frameworks and regulations.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, Power Point, Power BI, Financial Accounting Systems, Investment tools, and Data Analytic Tools.
• The ability to grasp and translate technical concepts, to think independently, and to take the initiative required to present alternatives to resolve issues.
Success Measures

Understands AIMCo's ESG taxonomy embedded into investment decisions across public equity, infrastructure asset classes or other asset classes. Ensures all evolving technical requirements driven by leading ESG reporting frameworks, standards and regulations, including CSRD, ISSB, PCAF etc. are incorporated in the Carbon Footprint Frameworks and GHG emission quantification models. Advances the climate-related financial disclosures, works on the alignment of the disclosures to the best practices and continually improves on data gathering, metrics and measurements.
Next Steps

We are excited to meet you. Please submit your resume or CV to be considered for this opportunity. Applications are being reviewed on a rolling basis and we will be in touch with any questions.

Final candidates will be asked to undergo a security screening, which includes a credit bureau and a criminal record investigation, the results of which must be acceptable to AIMCo.
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