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Amazon Sr. Sustainability Specialist, WW Sustainability in London, United Kingdom
Description
Join us at the cutting edge of Amazon's sustainability initiatives to work on emerging sustainability data and reporting requirements and support Amazon's long term worldwide sustainability strategy. At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people.
The Worldwide Sustainability (WWS) team capitalizes on Amazon’s scale, speed, and ability to invent and simplify to create a better and more resilient company. We manage our social and environmental impacts globally, and we drive solutions that enable our customers and our business to become more sustainable.
The Worldwide Sustainability ESG Reporting team is looking for a detail focused, results-oriented and collaborative individual to support Amazon’s global ESG disclosure processes.
This individual will work cross functionally to understand our ESG programs and key metrics so that they can scale our regulatory ESG reporting infrastructure.
You will be responsible for delivering Amazon’s regulatory ESG reports in a rapidly evolving global regulatory environment. This will involve establishing external reporting processes, collecting key metrics from partner teams, drafting disclosures, and presenting the results to senior leadership on legal, accounting and finance teams.
Your experience in delivering reports under existing regulations will also help Amazon prepare for compliance with emerging regulations including the proposed SEC Rule on Climate-Related Disclosures, CSRD/ESRS, the EU Taxonomy and ISSB. You will work cross functionally with worldwide sustainability, legal and finance to ensure disclosures are clear, transparent, and provide the right level of context to users of the information.
To do well in this role, you must be able to confidently handle complex projects and provide a point of view in situations of high ambiguity. You must also show good judgment and continually improve Amazon’s business model, and emerging ESG reporting requirement best practices.
Key job responsibilities
Deliver existing regulatory reports in multiple jurisdictions around the world.
Design and implement enhanced governance mechanisms to ensure adequate oversight and control over ESG reporting.
Provide requirements to sustainability technology team to help automate mandatory ESG reporting processes.
Analyze ESG performance against key goals. Draft performance narratives in partnership with the finance and accounting teams.
Work with worldwide sustainability subject matter experts to understand our calculation methodology, and draft transparent disclosures for inclusion in our voluntary and regulatory ESG reporting. These disclosures will need to meet the requirements of external reviewers and will provide a transparent summary of Amazon’s criteria and methodology used to calculate key metrics (i.e. Net zero, 100% Renewable Energy, GHG emissions, waste, water usage).
About the team
Inclusive Team Culture:
Here at Amazon, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Work/Life Balance:
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
Mentorship and Career Growth:
We have a career path for you no matter what stage you’re in when you start here. We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
London, GBR
Basic Qualifications
Minimum 7 years of experience working in ESG reporting, financial reporting, or legal fields.
Experience creating new disclosures in accordance with specific criteria (i.e. US GAAP, ISSB/SASB, GHG protocol)
Ability to create and execute an ESG disclosure strategy that aligns with the needs of various stakeholders.
Experience simplifying processes and creating detailed technical requirements for automation.
Experience understanding complex transactions and creating clear and transparent disclosures for external consumption.
Deep understanding of ESG reporting criteria such as the GHG protocol, and also the underlying assumptions that support common ESG targets such as net zero, 100% renewable energy etc.
Experience directly performing independent third-party assurance or managing external audit firms. - - Deep understanding of the emerging ESG regulatory environment (Proposed SEC Rule on Climate-Related Disclosures, CSRD/ESRS, EU taxonomy).
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with external reporting solutions such as Workiva.
Ability to apply strategic thinking and demonstrate understanding of requirements to execute.
Demonstrates bias for action to ensure teams meet or exceed customer expectations.
Ability to deliver in ambiguity, work autonomously and multi-task in an agile environment.
Works effectively in a dynamic environment with changing priorities.
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.
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