Translator wanted.

Fluent in AASB S2. Also fluent in CFO, COO and board?

Climate reporting has a language problem. ASRS, ISSB, Scope 3, transition risk, limited assurance. Acronyms stacked on acronyms. Standards written by specialists, for specialists.

The people who have to act on it aren’t specialists.

Every climate disclosure has several readers. The auditor wants evidence. The CFO wants the commercial impact. The board wants to know what it’s signing. The operations team needs to know which risks and opportunities to act on, and how.

Most disclosures are written for one of them. Everyone else gets lost.

Acumentis ESG is hiring someone who speaks climate and can translate climate reporting requirements with confidence and clarity.

The role

As Associate Director, ESG, you'll lead AASB S2 climate disclosure engagements day to day, as the main contact with our clients', assurance providers and third-party relationships. You'll work directly with Marco Gritti, National Director, ESG.

Our clients are CFOs, Head of Risk and Compliance and company secretaries with a board to brief and an assurance deadline that won't move. They need disclosures that hold up under review, and someone who can explain them and guide them through the process.

You’ll know the technical detail: climate risk registers, scenario analysis, transition plans, emissions accounting and judgement logs built for assurance. You’ll also know how to use it: bringing a committee to agreement, walking a CFO through an unexpected scenario and defending a judgement to an auditor with confidence.

Expertise gets the work right. Communication and strong relationships get it adopted.

Five languages, one job

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Client

- Lead AASB S2 and ASRS engagements from scoping through to board adoption
- Own plans, timelines, budgets and resourcing, and land work on time and on fee
- Run workstreams across governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets
- Coordinate partners such as emissions data providers and fold their outputs into the disclosure

2. Auditor

- Be the main contact between clients and their assurance providers under ASSA 5010 and ASSA 5000
- Build evidence files, judgement logs and audit trails that answer the question before it's asked
- Anticipate information requests and resolve issues before they become findings

3. Standards

- Review every deliverable for technical accuracy against AASB S2 and the Corporations Act
- Take key judgements (risk ratings, materiality thresholds) through the client's governance, not around it
- Sharpen our methodologies, templates and quality checklists

4. Team

- Set the quality bar and hold everyone to it, yourself included
- Keep the team current on standards, regulation and assurance practice
- Help recruit and onboard current clients and business opportunities

5. Commercial

- Be the senior day-to-day contact for client sponsors
- Spot follow-on work: Year 2 and 3 engagements, assurance readiness, financial quantification of climate risk and introduce clients to wider Acumentis services, including valuation and asset advisory
- Support proposals, scoping and fee estimates
- Build relationships with assurance firms

To be clear: this is a delivery role with a commercial edge. You'll carry revenue responsibility for yourself and your team. Better you hear that now.

📌 Associate Director - ESG (Climate Reporting) | Melbourne
🏢 Acumentis
📍 Melbourne