Senior Sustainability Analyst

Days tend to involve leading emissions calculations, designing data collection systems, partnering with operations on data quality, writing reports for stakeholders, and mentoring junior analysts. You might be reviewing Scope 3 calculations Monday, presenting target progress to leadership Tuesday, and drafting a CDP submission Thursday. The work tends to live in emissions accounting platforms, reporting frameworks like GHG Protocol or GRI, and the relationships with operations, finance, and legal.

The harder part is often the data quality and methodology choices that shape what gets reported. Scope 3 boundaries, intensity metrics, baseline selection — all involve judgment calls. Methodological discipline under reporting pressure is a daily craft. Variance across employers is real — large corporates have polished sustainability teams; smaller orgs depend on the senior analyst to span methodology, calculation, and reporting. Assurance-readiness is increasingly expected.

People who tend to thrive here are analytically rigorous, comfortable with reporting frameworks, and patient with the imperfect data that sustainability work runs on. They tend to enjoy the chance to make sustainability claims that hold up to scrutiny. The trade-off can be the cyclical pressure of disclosure cycles — when CDP, CSRD, or other reports are due, the calendar bends.