Carbon Accounting Specialist

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Colt provides network, voice and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure.

Short Description

Job Title: Carbon Accounting Specialist

Job ID: 34938

Job Location: Portugal, Spain, Italy, Romania

Working pattern: Hybrid set up

Why we need this role

The Carbon Accounting Specialist will be an integral member of the ESG Team, focusing on the centralization and consistency of carbon data across the organization. This role entails measuring, analyzing, and reporting on the global carbon footprint of Colt, requiring the management of complex data sets at various levels, including global, country, site, and project. Strong time and stakeholder management skills, along with data analysis expertise, are essential.

The primary objective is to establish a structured, controlled, and integrated approach to carbon data management throughout all Colt functions and at the Group level, embedding our ESG agenda across the business. Knowledge of ESG reporting frameworks—such as SBT, CDP, and TPT—is vital for enhancing data collection, narratives, and evidence for audits.

What you will do

• Centralize Carbon Metrics: Develop a structured approach to capture carbon metrics across all business functions, ensuring centralized reporting capabilities.
• Lead Carbon Footprint Calculations: Oversee the carbon footprint calculations for Colt Group in collaboration with Carbon Consultants, ensuring adherence to best practice financial modeling techniques aligned with the Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT).
• Establish Data Governance: Implement a robust internal carbon data governance framework to maintain centralized control over data inputs and outputs.
• Create Sustainability Dashboards: Develop dashboards that provide insights into performance against targets and highlight areas for improvement.
• Enhance Data Visualization: Explore methods to visualize carbon data and narratives, generating insights to support global operations while adhering to best practices.
• Validate Carbon Reductions: Validate reductions and data at project and program levels, collaborating on science-based target roadmaps and managing global data systems.
• Streamline Data Processes: Identify opportunities to automate and simplify data collection and reporting narratives, aligning with ESG reporting best practices.

What we're looking for

• Experience in carbon accounting, capable of translating work into tangible reductions.
• Proven ESG reporting experience, understanding standards like GRI, CDP, Ecovadis, TPT.
• Exposure to transition planning and its link to financial planning is advantageous.
• Advanced Excel skills for environmental data analysis.
• Experience in creating dashboards to measure ESG performance against targets.
• Proven ability to deliver data visualizations related to global decarbonization programs.

What we offer

In addition to competitive salaries and incentives, Colt offers a range of benefits and local rewards. We recognize the importance of work-life balance.

• Flexible working and relaxed dress code
• Two days annually for volunteering
• Access to a virtual business school for ongoing learning
• Business mentoring

Skills

Negotiation, Information Reporting, Environmental Compliance, Ethics, Influencing, Environmental Regulation

Education

Relevant qualifications or industry experience