Finding the Right ESG Reporting Manager Ad Interim

Introducing our Client

Our Client is a “multinational” consulting boutique located in Belgium. This consulting firm defines itself as a community of solvers, combining human ingenuity, experience and technology innovation to deliver sustained outcomes and build trust.

Roles and Responsibilities of the Reporting Manager (Ad-Interim)

Our client needed a Reporting Manager ad interim able to fulfill the three following tasks

1. Diagnostic Realization

• Inform on European ESG reporting standards (EFRAG) and its fundings potential; Analyze current Client performance (“AS-IS”) in terms of reports, data & systems
• Highlight improvement areas to ESG reporting standards (master data dimensions and data quality, or record to report process for example) to build a sustainability scorecard under EU standards; EU linking public funding and sustainable finance to its own classification system, establishing a list of environmentally sustainable economic activities; Comment and propose improvement actions on Investment decision / Supporting Organization / Process / Data / Systems

2. Reporting Improvements Implementation

• Deliver improvement actions, together with IT team (Business Intelligence team, mainly)
• Test outcome and help train key users to build the report; Ensure follow-up for the first “report out” iteration

3. Financial Advisory

• Develop business and financial recommendations to “forward looking” : Guide capital allocation; Identify investments for “green financing” ; Reporting obligations (taxonomy, CSRD)
• Analyze strategic decisions (“mapping opportunities”) with financial consequences and deliver recommendation on current investments & related fundings (“backward looking”)
• Be responsible for the financial modeling design of investment projects

Our Approach to Find the Right Match

To find the right Reporting manager candidate to fit our Client's needs, we followed a serie of six steps which can be summarized as follow: 

1. Determining the Client Needs:

Together with our partner, we met the Client to understand quickly the requirements and translated these into a mission description and key search criteria.

2. Search and Selection of Freelancers:

Based on our algorithm and people knowledge, we searched on our different talent pools for the specific expertise and experiences to meet our client's needs, contacted our freelancers, and then prioritized based on motivation, expectation, availability, location and rate. 

3. Talents Shortlist:

In a very short period, we set up a shortlist and communicated to the end client : profile summary, screening & interviews summary, outcome of Clients references checks, Curriculum Vitae (inc. above mentioned items.

4. Interviews with Client:

The end Client decided to interview 2 short listed candidates. We set up the meetings and attended these. The fit between the ESG mission requirements and proposed profiles were quickly confirmed but one candidate standed out by her motivation.

5. Candidate Placement:

The end Client confirmed us this person and in less than 7 days after the interview, our
freelancer was starting her assignment.

6. Project Follow-Up:

Based on milestones, we have a call with the Client, and then the freelancer, to ensure proper
expectations’ communication and quality delivery.

Success and Results 

• New ESG reporting design delivered ; Ongoing (as per plan) for Other Project Milestones:
• Mission timeframe: 3 months (4 days a week)