Sr. Lead Climate Reporting, WW Sustainability

About the role

Join us at the forefront of Amazon's sustainability initiatives to work on environmental and social advancements to support Amazon's long term worldwide sustainability strategy.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate emerging regulations, standards, and frameworks and develop preparation plans, with a particular focus on climate metrics and disclosures.
• Execute reporting processes such as double materiality assessments and value chain mapping.
• Design and implement enhanced governance mechanisms to ensure adequate oversight and control over sustainability reporting.
• Analyze Sustainability performance against key goals.
• Draft performance narratives, including narratives related to climate mitigation, adaptation, and energy use, and in partnership with the Accounting, Finance, Legal, and Environment teams.
• Work with Worldwide Sustainability subject matter experts to develop precise disclosures of Amazon's calculation methodologies for voluntary and regulatory sustainability reporting.
• Ensure disclosures meet external assurance standards and provide stakeholders with clear explanations of the criteria and methodologies used to calculate key metrics (e.g., greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, GHG mitigation and carbon credits, and climate risk assessment results).

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of experience working in sustainability reporting, sustainability assurance, environment, or legal fields.
• Deep understanding of the emerging sustainability regulatory environment (e.g., California Climate Rules, CSRD, European Sustainability Reporting Standards, EU taxonomy, and ISSB), and of specific sustainability reporting frameworks and standards (e.g., GHG Protocol and Global Reporting Initiative).
• Strong expertise in GHG Scope 1, 2, and 3 accounting.
• Technical experience performing climate risk assessments and/or data analytics to uncover insights.
• Experience understanding complex data and creating new disclosures in alignment with specific reporting criteria.
• Ability to create and execute a sustainability disclosure strategy that considers and prioritizes the needs of various stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience directly performing independent third-party assurance or managing external audit firms.
• Sustainability reporting accreditation/certification (e.g. GRI Certified Sustainability Professional, ISSB (IFRS) Sustainability Fundamentals Certificate).
• Experience with external reporting solutions such as Workiva and familiarity with XBRL tagging.
• Experience managing consultants, including developing external-facing reports (e.g., design, content development, etc.).