Climate Risk Financial Consultant

2 weeks ago


Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States ERM Full time
About ERM's Climate Risk and Opportunity Advisory Team

ERM's Climate Risk and Opportunity Advisory team 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.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Quantitative Climate Risk Specialist to join our team. As a member of our Climate Risk and Opportunity Advisory Team, you will:

  • Apply advanced 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 involvement in thought leadership, internal newsletters, learning sessions, amongst other initiatives
Requirements

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

  • 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.
About ERM

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.



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