Sustainability Analyst (Customer Calculations)
Altruistiq’s software solution delivers sustainability intelligence and real corporate impact in carbon reduction and beyond for large businesses that see more than ‘just’ reporting as the goal.
Altruistiq empowers businesses with the technology to automate sustainability data measurement, management, and exchange — with unparalleled accuracy and ease. We believe that sustainability is the corporate world’s biggest data challenge. Our mission is to enable businesses to do more of what is measurably good, driven by data and impact intelligence. Read about our latest investment below:
Altruistiq has scaled rapidly, working with multiple industry leaders across the globe. We are expanding our Global Talent Hubs (currently Costa Rica, South Africa, and Pakistan) and seeking high-performing individuals in these regions to join our mission-driven company. Please note that we are a remote-first company, and while some roles may require flexible working hours due to time zone differences, there is no expectation to work from specific offices.
About the role
Our Sustainability Analyst role combines strong analytical capabilities, sustainability expertise, and excellent people skills to support our customers throughout their sustainability journey. You’ll play a vital role in managing sustainability data, and shaping our product roadmap through customer feedback.
In this role, you will:
- Lead the calculation process for calculating our customer’s GHG Emissions, ensuring precision and consistency in emissions factor selection and emissions.
- Lead the presentation of complex findings from emissions calculations, making them easy for customers to understand, providing them with valuable insights and sharing these internally when necessary.
- Present complex findings from emissions calculations, delivering detailed analytics and creating dashboards that drive customer insights, including support for regulatory frameworks.
- Drives team and product improvements by providing feedback on processes, developing internal training, and collaborating with the product team to optimise calculation features.
- Be a core member of the Sustainability Analytics team, contributing to the team knowledge base, offering guidance on emissions factor selection, and helping team members on resolving queries using internal tools.
Who we're looking for:
This role is ideal for someone with a passion for sustainability, a keen eye for detail, and a strong data-driven mindset. This is an early career role suitable for someone with 2-3 years professional experience in sustainability.
About you:
We believe the successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills:
Technical expertise
- Have a relevant degree or experience relating to sustainability, as well as a basic understanding of how to calculate Greenhouse gas emissions (scope 1, 2 and 3) aligned to the GHG Protocol/ISO Standards.
- Have a good understanding and passion for wider sustainability concepts and developments in the sector.
- Proficiency in using market standard tools for data analysis (e.g., Metabase, MS Excel, Tableau, Alteryx, or similar).
- Confident with large dataset, able to analyse data, spot trends, with the ability to speak eloquently about sources of emissions, emissions calculations, and data quality.
- Candidates must have excellent written and spoken English skills, as the primary language of communication within the company is English.
Relationship building
- Good communication skills with the ability to concisely summarise and condense complex sustainability topics and build trust-based relationships.
- Process-driven, able to follow and refine clear processes with minimal supervision.
- Strong process and time management skills, able to manage multiple tasks across multiple customers.
Entrepreneurial spirit
- A natural "go getter", keen to identify opportunities and trial solutions to improve our customers' experiences.
- Ability to learn fast and on-the go, working in the often unstructured environment of a fast growing startup.
- A willing problem-solver, highly adaptable to client needs, with the ability to prioritise and manage time effectively.
- A keen learner with the ability to adapt to new ways of working, and an interest to work in the tech sector, and desire to grow your sustainability knowledge through working with a wider team of experts
Our benefits include:
- Equity, we believe our team should all have a stake in the company we're building.
- A supportive culture to help you learn and develop into a better version of yourself, including a learning & development budget and policy.
- Competitive compensation package.
- Private health and dental insurance for you and your partner/family.
- Generous pension contribution.
- Unlimited holiday policy.
- Flexible working, remote-first, with allowance to join a shared working space where you live.
- Health & wellness budget, cycle scheme.
- Team offsites, and annual events to spend time together as a team.
- Work in a diverse, feedback-driven organisation, decentralised decision making enabling everyone to weigh in, offering lots of freedom, impact as well as responsibility.
At Altruistiq we believe a diverse team is a better team.
We welcome you to apply, and if there are accommodations that can be made to make the application and interview process more accessible for you please just get in touch. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.