Watershed ESG Data Mgmt and Reporting

The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s/applicant’s qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available.

Our client is seeking Watershed ESG Data Mgmt. and Reporting in Denver, CO.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

• • Twice-weekly work-planning and status meeting during active periods, with more frequent check-ins during collection, assurance, and approval peaks.
• Single prioritized backlog maintained by the project lead. The contractor will not accept conflicting directions without confirming priority.
• Written weekly status covering completed work, next steps, overdue items, decisions needed, risks, and hours or capacity used.
• Issues affecting scope, methodology, controls, approval, data integrity, or deadlines must be escalated within one business day of identification.
• All substantive changes must be recorded in the designated issue, decision, or change log.
• Work products must be stored in approved systems and naming conventions.
• Support finalization of organizational hierarchy, rollups, entity structure, and collection pathways, including OpCos and JVs in scope.
• Create and configure measurement projects, task structures, naming conventions, custom columns, templates, and supporting-document locations.
• Maintain user lists, role-based permissions, uploader and approver access, and footprint visibility. Remove obsolete users when authorized.
• Test upload templates and system behavior before launch; document defects, decisions, and remediation.
• Support setup of new entities and users identified. 3.2 Data collection and entry support
• Support bulk task creation and assignment, template distribution, file uploads, data entry, and evidence attachment.
• Assist data providers with cleaning spreadsheets, identifying validation errors and missing fields, finding inconsistent units, task submission, rejections, and resubmissions.
• Document estimates, assumptions, explanations, source files, and approvals in the designated audit trail.
• Monitor completion by entity and workstream; maintain an accurate tracker of overdue items, blockers, and follow-up actions.
• Provide targeted office hours and role-based support during collection and review periods. 3.3 Data quality, controls, and audit readiness
• Perform agreed completeness and accuracy checks, including selected or random testing of submitted datasets.
• Check that entity and location coverage, change logs, notes, approvals, and supporting evidence are present and internally consistent.
• Support trend and outlier analysis; document identified anomalies and route methodology questions.
• Maintain controls documentation, issue logs, decision logs, version history, and evidence indexes.
• Prepare and organize materials needed for management review and KPMG limited-assurance requests.

3.4 Footprint generation and reporting support

• Set up footprint structures and access using approved measurement projects and datasets.
• Generate initial and final pre-review footprint versions as directed.
• Support mapping, exclusions, recategorizations, completeness checks, and remediation of Watershed review comments.
• Prepare status reporting and schedules supporting local CFO review, global executive approvals, PPP/website reporting, and VMIE sustainability-linked loan reporting.
• Archive final approved outputs and supporting documentation in the agreed repository

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS

• Provide hands-on capacity to configure and operate Watershed, support data owners, maintain evidence and controls, and move the annual ESG data collection process from setup through assurance-ready reporting
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with Watershed carbon-accounting and ESG-data platform.
• Experience configuring Watershed measurement projects, organizational hierarchies, permissions, collection templates, workflows, and footprint outputs.
• Excel analysis and structured data skills (pivot tables) and experience with MS Excel Power Query to compile various data sources.
• Audit need awareness, including validation, reconciliation, exception tracking, and audit support schedules. Experience supporting limited assurance or financial-grade reporting processes.
• General working knowledge of GHG data, Scope 1, 2, and 3 categories, organizational boundaries, supporting evidence, and change controls.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple entities, data owners, SMEs, finance teams, and external service providers.
• Clear written communication and the ability to document procedures, assumptions, decisions, and unresolved technical matters.

Benefits/Other Compensation Medical, Dental, Life Insurance, 401K.

Why Hays?

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