ESG Analyst

Smartsuite; Newport Beach (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Capitolis is seeking an ESG Analyst for SmartSuite to collect, analyze, and interpret ESG data, evaluating performance and identifying improvement opportunities. The role focuses on aggregating environmental and social metrics, validating data quality, and building dashboards that track progress toward carbon, diversity, and other targets.

You will analyze trends, gaps, and emerging ESG risks, support disclosure with data and evidence, and maintain the ESG data model and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Aggregate environmental and social metrics from multiple sources
• Validate data quality and methodology consistency
• Build dashboards of progress toward carbon, diversity and other targets
• Analyze trends, gaps and emerging ESG risks
• Support disclosure preparation with data and evidence
• Maintain the ESG data model and source documentation

Job description

SmartSuite for the ESG Analyst

The ESG Analyst collects, analyzes and interprets ESG data to evaluate performance and find improvement opportunities. They aggregate environmental and social metrics from multiple sources, visualize progress toward targets and identify gaps and emerging risks.

What you own

The ESG Analyst collects, analyzes and interprets ESG data to evaluate performance and find improvement opportunities.

• Aggregate environmental and social metrics from multiple sources
• Validate data quality and methodology consistency
• Build dashboards of progress toward carbon, diversity and other targets
• Analyze trends, gaps and emerging ESG risks
• Support disclosure preparation with data and evidence
• Maintain the ESG data model and source documentation

At a glance

The GRC processes this role owns, touches and depends on.

Owns

accountable for the process

Touches

contributes or approves

Depends on

consumes its output

How the GRC processes connect

Three lines of defence set the frame; the chain shows where each process hands off to the next. Colours follow the ESG Analyst: navy is owned, blue is touched, grey is depended on.

1. First line – The business and its control owners: Run the processes, own the controls, fix the issues
2. Second line – Risk, compliance and the domain programmes: Set the frameworks, assess, monitor and advise
3. Third line – Internal audit: Independent assurance to the board and audit committee

Reporting lines

Who this role reports to, who reports to them, and the peers they work with most.

Reports to

ESG Reporting Manager

Works closely with

• Environmental Program Manager
• Social Impact Manager
• Risk Analyst
• FP&A Manager

How SmartSuite supports the ESG Analyst

The ESG Analyst turns scattered environmental and social data into figures the organization can report and act on, answerable to the ESG Reporting Manager for numbers that are consistent and assurance-ready. SmartSuite gives you validated submissions, a documented data model and dashboards that show progress to target, so analysis replaces reconciliation.

Validate, model and interpret the ESG data

Submissions from departments pass through structured templates and validation steps in ESG & Sustainability Management, so inconsistent data is caught when it arrives rather than when the figures are challenged.

Each metric carries its source, estimate or calculation and the person who supplied it, so the data model you maintain is documented well enough for CSRD or SB 253 assurance to follow.

Metrics, scoring models and reporting templates in ESG & Sustainability Management are configurable by you, so a new GRI indicator or a changed ISSB metric is added to the model without a development request.

Work with program managers, finance and risk

The Environmental Program Manager's emissions and the Social Impact Manager's workforce metrics arrive in the same structure, so you aggregate across E and S without reconciling two formats first.

Where intensity metrics need revenue or spend denominators, the FP&A Manager's figures are linked rather than copied, so an ESG ratio and a finance ratio start from the same number.

When a trend you spot becomes a risk, it is scored on the Risk Analyst's likelihood and impact scale in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), so ESG risks sit on the heat map beside every other exposure.

Show progress and gaps the ESG team can act on

Dashboards show each target's trajectory against actuals by site, region and period, so the ESG Reporting Manager sees where carbon or diversity targets are slipping before year end.

The AI Assistant in a SmartDoc field summarizes ESG data and drafts insight reports from the trends you have identified, so the analysis you hand the team includes the narrative as well as the chart.

Every metric, estimate and approval is kept with full history, so an assurance provider or a successor can see how a figure was reached in an earlier reporting cycle without asking you.

ESG. Aggregates environmental and social metrics with data aggregation tools and visualizes progress toward goals such as carbon reduction or diversity targets.

Risk management. Flags gaps and emerging ESG risks for the risk register.

Reporting. Delivers performance dashboards and trend analysis for the ESG team.

Products this role uses most

• ESG & Sustainability Management – Track and report ESG performance with structured workflows, regulatory alignment, and real-time visibility into sustainability metrics and initiatives.
• Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) – Centralize enterprise risk management with standardized assessments, dashboards, and linked workflows that align risk, controls, and mitigation across your organization.
• Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) – Manage incidents, inspections, and safety workflows in one platform with real-time visibility and structured processes to improve compliance and reduce risk.

Industry reference

The GHG Protocol Corporate Standard defines the emissions calculations the analyst runs, with ISO 14064-1 as the verifiable equivalent; the GRI Standards and ISSB IFRS S2 define the metrics and climate-related targets tracked. Science Based Targets initiative guidance governs target-setting methods.

Assurance drives the data standard: CSRD and California SB 253 require independent assurance of reported figures, so methodologies, estimates and source data must be documented. Financial institutions calculate financed emissions under the PCAF standard; healthcare and public sector bodies most often report Scope 1 and 2 emissions and workforce metrics; technology companies focus on energy, data-center and supply-chain data.

Related roles

ESG Reporting Manager

Frequently asked questions

The ESG Analyst collects, analyzes and interprets ESG data to evaluate performance and find improvement opportunities: aggregating environmental and social metrics from multiple sources, validating data quality and methodology consistency, building dashboards of progress toward carbon, diversity and other targets, analyzing trends, gaps and emerging ESG risks, supporting disclosure preparation with data and evidence and maintaining the ESG data model and source documentation. The GHG Protocol and GRI define most of the calculations and metrics they work with.

ESG & Sustainability Management aggregates environmental and social metrics with data aggregation tools, so readings from sites, HR records and suppliers are combined in one data set with their sources recorded rather than merged in a spreadsheet each period. The ESG Analyst can see which source contributed which figure and when, which is what methodology consistency and later assurance depend on. The Environmental Program Manager and the Social Impact Manager submit their metrics into the same model the analyst aggregates from.

SmartSuite visualizes progress toward goals such as carbon reduction or diversity targets from the aggregated metrics, so the ESG Analyst builds a dashboard once and it updates as the data does. Progress against a science-based target or a workforce diversity goal is shown against the baseline and the trajectory, and a period where the trend turns is visible as it happens. The same dashboards serve the ESG Reporting Manager when a disclosure needs a figure and the context behind it.

SmartSuite lets the ESG Analyst flag gaps and emerging ESG risks for the risk register in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), so a trend the analyst sees in the data, such as a site missing its water target or a supply-chain metric moving the wrong way, becomes a risk the Risk Analyst can score and assign rather than a note in a monthly report. The risk keeps its link to the data that raised it, which is useful when the risk committee asks for the evidence.

SmartSuite delivers performance dashboards and trend analysis for the ESG team from the aggregated data, so the ESG Reporting Manager, the Environmental Program Manager and the Social Impact Manager look at the same dashboards the ESG Analyst maintains rather than receiving separate extracts. Trend analysis across periods, sites and metrics comes from the stored series, and the FP&A Manager can read the same figures when environmental or social performance affects the financial plan. The analyst's work is published once and read by everyone.

The data model, the unit and methodology for each metric, and the source documentation behind each figure; SmartSuite stores the sources and the aggregation with the data, so documenting methodology becomes part of collecting rather than a separate exercise before assurance. Under CSRD and California SB 253 the reported figures need independent assurance, which means every estimate and calculation must be traceable. Start with the metrics in the current disclosure, record their sources and methods, and extend the model as new metrics are added.