Senior Carbon Accounting Specialist

We're Hiring: Senior Carbon Accounting Specialist

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: Senior

Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a globally focused organization committed to improving environmental performance, climate transparency, resource efficiency, and sustainable business practices across diverse markets. Our teams combine sustainability, finance, operations, procurement, energy, data, risk, and technology expertise to develop credible and measurable climate strategies.

Our multidisciplinary teams work across corporate sustainability, finance, environmental management, supply chain, facilities, operations, and external assurance partners to measure greenhouse gas emissions accurately, strengthen carbon data governance, support emissions-reduction initiatives, and improve the quality of climate-related reporting.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Carbon Accounting Specialist to lead greenhouse gas emissions measurement, carbon accounting, emissions data management, reporting, verification support, and continuous improvement of organizational carbon inventories.

The ideal candidate will combine strong knowledge of GHG accounting methodologies with financial, operational, analytical, and data-management capabilities to develop accurate and auditable emissions inventories across Scope 1, Scope 2, and relevant Scope 3 categories. The role will support climate reporting, target-setting, decarbonization planning, internal decision-making, and external disclosures.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of organizational greenhouse gas emissions inventories.
• Establish carbon-accounting methodologies, processes, controls, and governance frameworks.
• Calculate and report Scope 1, Scope 2, and relevant Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions.
• Establish clear organizational and operational boundaries for emissions inventories.
• Apply appropriate consolidation approaches, including operational control, financial control, or equity-share methodologies where relevant.
• Identify material emissions sources across facilities, operations, transportation, energy, procurement, products, services, and value-chain activities.
• Develop annual greenhouse gas inventory processes, calendars, data requirements, responsibilities, and reporting timelines.
• Collect, validate, reconcile, and analyze emissions activity data from internal and external sources.
• Work with Finance, Procurement, Operations, Facilities, Fleet, Supply Chain, HR, IT, and other teams to obtain reliable emissions data.
• Develop standardized data-collection templates, questionnaires, calculation models, and reporting tools.
• Establish data-quality controls for completeness, accuracy, consistency, traceability, and comparability.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of emissions sources, activity data, emission factors, assumptions, methodologies, calculations, and adjustments.
• Select, maintain, and document appropriate emission factors for relevant activities and geographic locations.
• Monitor updates to recognized emission-factor databases and assess their impact on emissions calculations.
• Ensure emission factors are appropriately matched to activity data, reporting boundaries, units, and calculation methodologies.
• Calculate emissions from stationary combustion, mobile combustion, purchased electricity, purchased energy, refrigerants, industrial processes, and other relevant sources.
• Develop and improve Scope 3 emissions inventories across applicable categories.
• Assess purchased goods and services, capital goods, fuel- and energy-related activities, transportation, waste, business travel, employee commuting, leased assets, product use, and other value-chain emissions where applicable.
• Develop appropriate methodologies for supplier-specific, activity-based, spend-based, distance-based, average-data, and hybrid Scope 3 calculations.
• Engage suppliers and business partners to obtain primary emissions data and improve value-chain data quality.
• Evaluate supplier emissions information and identify gaps, inconsistencies, estimation requirements, and data-quality risks.
• Develop estimation methodologies for incomplete or unavailable emissions data.
• Document assumptions, proxies, extrapolations, estimates, and methodological limitations transparently.
• Conduct emissions-data reconciliations against financial, operational, procurement, energy, and other relevant datasets.
• Investigate significant year-on-year changes, anomalies, missing data, and unexpected emissions movements.
• Perform variance analysis to identify operational and methodological drivers of emissions changes.
• Support calculation of emissions intensity metrics aligned with relevant business activities.
• Develop carbon-intensity indicators such as emissions per revenue, employee, product, unit, area, output, shipment, or other appropriate denominators.
• Support development and monitoring of science-based or internally defined emissions-reduction targets.
• Establish baselines and maintain historical emissions inventories consistently.
• Manage recalculations of base-year emissions following structural, methodological, or data changes.
• Assess organizational acquisitions, divestments, changes in boundaries, operational changes, and methodological revisions for inventory impacts.
• Support carbon-reduction planning by identifying high-emission sources and opportunities for emissions reduction.
• Partner with Energy, Facilities, Procurement, Operations, Fleet, and Supply Chain teams to quantify emissions-reduction opportunities.
• Develop emissions-reduction scenarios, forecasts, and carbon-abatement analyses.
• Quantify potential emissions reductions associated with energy efficiency, renewable energy, electrification, logistics optimization, procurement changes, waste reduction, and other initiatives.
• Evaluate marginal abatement opportunities and support prioritization based on cost, feasibility, emissions impact, and strategic value.
• Support internal carbon pricing, carbon-cost analysis, and climate-related financial assessments where applicable.
• Analyze the financial and operational implications of carbon emissions and potential

Key Performance Indicators

• Scope 1 emissions inventory accuracy
• Scope 2 emissions inventory accuracy
• Scope 3 emissions inventory completeness
• GHG inventory completion rate
• Carbon-accounting reporting timeliness
• Carbon-data completeness
• Carbon-data accuracy
• Carbon-data validation rate
• Emission-factor accuracy
• Activity-data completeness
• Supplier emissions-data coverage
• Primary Scope 3 data coverage
• Estimated-data percentage
• Carbon-data reconciliation accuracy
• Carbon-data audit-trail completeness
• Base-year emissions accuracy
• Base-year recalculation compliance
• Emissions-intensity accuracy
• Year-on-year emissions variance analysis
• Emissions reduction achieved
• Emissions-reduction target progress
• Carbon-abatement initiative delivery
• Carbon-abatement cost efficiency
• Carbon-reduction forecast accuracy
• Scope 3 supplier engagement rate
• Supplier data-quality improvement
• Carbon-accounting control compliance
• Carbon-accounting audit findings
• Assurance finding closure
• Assurance readiness
• Reporting framework compliance
• Climate-disclosure submission timeliness
• Carbon-accounting methodology compliance
• Data-quality issue resolution time
• Carbon-data exception rate
• Carbon-accounting process cycle time
• Automation adoption
• Sustainability-system data integration
• Carbon-dashboard accuracy
• Management-reporting timeliness
• Carbon-accounting cost efficiency
• External partner SLA performance
• Training completion
• Stakeholder competency
• Carbon-accounting process improvement
• Inventory comparability and consistency
• Carbon-data governance maturity

Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate should have strong experience in carbon accounting, greenhouse gas emissions management, sustainability reporting, climate data, ESG, environmental accounting, sustainability analytics, or corporate climate strategy, preferably within a complex multinational, industrial, commercial, infrastructure, energy, real estate, logistics, or service-oriented organization.

The candidate should demonstrate:

• Strong understanding of greenhouse gas accounting principles and methodologies.
• Proven experience developing corporate GHG inventories across Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3.
• Strong knowledge of the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard and relevant Scope 2 and Scope 3 guidance.
• Experience working with emission factors, activity data, calculation methodologies, and emissions-intensity metrics.
• Strong understanding of organizational and operational boundaries for emissions reporting.
• Experience calculating and analyzing value-chain emissions.
• Strong knowledge of Scope 3 categories and relevant calculation methodologies.
• Experience working with supplier emissions data and primary-data collection programs.
• Strong data-quality, reconciliation, validation, and audit-trail capabilities.
• Experience developing carbon-accounting controls, methodologies, procedures, and governance frameworks.