Carbon Analyst

Spreadsheets, emissions factors, and reporting frameworks are where most of the work lives: gathering activity data, calculating footprints, and building the inventories that disclosures and targets rest on. The data is often scattered, incomplete, or inconsistent, so much of the job is chasing and cleaning it, then defending the assumptions you had to make.

The role means different things in different places. A consultancy juggles many clients and frameworks, an in-house team goes deep on one company, and a verification body leans hard on standards, audits, and methodological rigor. Regulation and disclosure rules keep shifting, so part of the work is keeping up with a moving target — and translating it for executives who want a clean number.

It tends to suit people who are analytically rigorous but comfortable with imperfect data, and who care about the climate problem enough to sweat the methodology. If you want tidy, certain answers, the ambiguity can grate. But if quantifying a path to lower emissions feels meaningful, and the field is growing fast, the work can be both stable and purposeful.