About this role
Nexio Projects is looking for a Lead Sustainability Consultant to help lead the development and delivery of our sustainability finance and reporting services. You will connect climate strategy with investment decisions and private equity portfolio value creation, quantify climate-related risks, impacts and opportunities in financial terms, and translate CSRD/ESRS and IFRS S1/S2 requirements into practical, decision-useful solutions for finance and sustainability leaders. As part of this role, you will build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and manage engagements from scoping through delivery. This role is suited to either a finance professional (corporate finance, FP&A, valuation, deal advisory or financial risk) who has worked on, or wants to specialise in, climate and sustainability topics, or a sustainability professional with proven, hands-on financial modelling skills, looking to apply that expertise in a hands-on, client-facing, service-building capacity. Hi, we’re Nexio Projects! 🌍 Nexio Projects is a sustainability consultancy of 40+ people headquartered in Rotterdam, serving hundreds of European mid-market clients across CSRD/ESRS, EcoVadis, B Corp, CDP and net-zero strategy. We are a certified B Corp (one of the highest-scoring B Corp consultancies in the Benelux), a certified Great Place To Work®, a top-rated consulting firm per Verdantix and consultancy.nl , and a Platinum EcoVadis strategic consulting partner. We practise what we advise, and we hire people who combine technical rigour with a light touch: human, humble, hardworking and allergic to taking themselves too seriously. Why this role exists 🍀 Sustainability reporting is rapidly becoming part of corporate financial reporting. CSRD and the ESRS have made sustainability disclosure a board-level, audit-grade exercise. The ISSB's IFRS S1 and S2 are becoming the global baseline, while the market is increasingly demanding that sustainability strategy be translated into a credible financial business case that links to enterprise value creation and supports capital allocation. Our clients, European mid-market companies and international groups, need advisors who speak both languages: rigorous financial analysis and deep sustainability expertise. Increasingly, clients are asking us not just what to disclose, but what climate means for their numbers: what a carbon price does to margins, which assets are exposed to physical risk and which decarbonisation levers pay back. You will split your time between helping shape Nexio's next generation of sustainability finance and reporting services and applying them in client engagements. Rather than joining an established practice with fixed methodologies, you will help define how we approach emerging topics such as climate risk quantification, decarbonisation business cases, financial effects disclosures under ESRS E1 and IFRS S2, and how sustainability factors into investment appraisal, budgeting and capital allocation. Client engagements will provide the testing ground for new ideas. In turn, you will use lessons learned from delivery to strengthen our methodologies, tooling and commercial propositions, helping turn promising concepts into repeatable services.