Principal Consultant - Reporting & Disclosure

About the role

Anthesis is looking for a Principal Consultant for its Strategy Transformation and Reporting (STaR) team in Australia. This is a senior, client-facing role based in any major Australian city, leading complex STaR consulting engagements, managing project delivery and providing technical leadership on voluntary and mandatory reporting and sustainability strategy. It also involves business development and mentoring consultants.

Key responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of sustainability consulting engagements on time, within budget and to agreed quality standards, with senior technical oversight and quality assurance.
• Build trusted client relationships and act as a senior advisor on reporting, sustainability strategy, governance and performance.
• Draft, review and present reports, presentations and workshops in line with project scope.
• Lead proposals for mandatory and voluntary reporting, sustainability strategy, materiality assessments, human rights and other ESG topics, and support opportunity conversion.
• Help develop and scale STaR service offerings, including delivery tools, proposal templates and internal capability materials.
• Act as an internal subject-matter expert on sustainability frameworks, governance and reporting, and contribute to thought leadership and marketing content.
• Mentor and manage senior and junior consultants, support performance management and career progression, and take part in the Anthesis Centre of Excellence and coaching with the line manager.

Required profile

• Degree or relevant qualification in sustainability, finance, enterprise risk management, corporate governance or a related field.
• More than 6 years' experience in sustainability advisory fundamentals such as double materiality assessments, sustainability strategy, mandatory and voluntary reporting, human rights, climate risks and opportunities.
• Experience leading small teams on complex projects aligned with frameworks such as GRI, SASB, IR, TCFD, UNGPs, ASRS AASB S1 & S2, IFRS ISSB S1 & S2, ESRS, CSDDD and BCorp; experience guiding clients to comply with ASRS or ISSB is highly valued.
• Ability to design sustainability governance structures, present reports to executives and boards, and lead stakeholder engagement with management, boards, investors and external parties.

Required skills

• Competency within the MS Office Suite; high-level numeracy, good Excel programming and workbook skills preferred.
• Strong working familiarity with AI LLMs and their integration into advisory workflows, particularly Copilot.