We are looking for a dedicated and detail-oriented ESG Reporting Specialist to join our Finance team in Copenhagen.
You will report to the Head of Finance and work closely with the Finance Manager of Reporting, as well as the Sustainability & Impact team. This is a key role in strengthening our ESG reporting capabilities and ensuring compliance with evolving sustainability disclosure frameworks and regulations while also meeting reporting requirements from investors.
About Impact Fund Denmark
Impact Fund Denmark is Denmark’s Development Finance Institution, a best-in-class impact investor. We think innovatively about ways to deploy our capital, attract, and mobilise other investors, and drive transformational and sustainable impact in developing countries and emerging markets. Impact Fund Denmark is a global organisation and offers a diverse and inclusive working environment with strong values like teamwork, a “can-do” attitude and being proper in our daily work. We are over 150 full time employees representing 30 different nationalities, with more than 15% of staff located at our regional representations, who all share the Impact Fund Denmark’s purpose: to support the green transition and contribute to just and inclusive economies in developing countries and emerging markets.
The Position & Your Responsibilities
As ESG Reporting Specialist, you will play a central role in preparing and enhancing our ESG reporting, sustainability data governance and ESG forecasting. The role will focus on ensuring reporting compliance as well as strengthening our ability to harness ESG data and transform it into actionable insights that drive organizational progress.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the preparation of ESG reports in alignment with international norms and standards (for example Impact Frontiers impact performance reporting norms, IFRS/ESRS standards and SFDR disclosure templates).
- Collaborating with finance, legal, and sustainability and impact teams to integrate ESG into corporate reporting.
- Ensuring sustainability data quality, traceability, and audit readiness across ESG dimensions and metrics.
- Assisting on developing ESG and sustainability systems and applications in collaboration with our Technology department.
- Supporting external assurance processes and liaising with auditors.
- Monitoring regulatory developments and advising ESG reporting implications.
- Facilitate the audit process and assurance of ESG reporting
Your Qualifications
The ideal candidate has the following qualifications and experience:
- Have 5+ years of experience with ESG reporting and sustainability assurance, with background or training as a financial auditor.
- Possess strong knowledge of international and EU sustainability reporting frameworks (IFRS S1 and S2, SFDR, ESRS, and related frameworks (e.g. GHG Protocol, TCFD, TNFD)).
- Able to structure and develop reporting processes around non-financial data.
- Are structured, analytical, detail-oriented and have strong ability and interest in managing numeric data.
- Proven-track record in being able to write in English in a concise and focused manner on sustainability topics.
- If you have a certification or formal training within ESG reporting it is plus.
Working and Learning at Impact Fund Denmark
We offer a hybrid workplace with flexible hours, a strong focus on learning and development, and a collaborative, international environment. You’ll enjoy a healthy lunch in our canteen, Friday breakfasts, and team events like our annual staff seminar.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you! Please send your application as soon as possible. We review applications on a rolling basis.
For questions, contact Niclas Olsen, Head of Finance, at [email protected] or Hege Mortensen, HR Business Partner, at [email protected].
About Impact Fund Denmark
Impact Fund Denmark (IFU – the Investment Fund for Developing Countries) is a Danish impact investor contributing to green, just and inclusive societies as well as supporting the Sustainable Development Goals. Impact Fund Denmark provides risk capital to companies operating in developing countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and parts of Europe. Investments are made on commercial terms in the form of equity, loans and guarantees. Impact Fund Denmark has co-invested in over 1,300 companies in more than 100 developing countries and emerging markets. Contracted investments total EUR 31 billion, of which Impact Fund Denmark has contributed EUR 3.4 billion. Capital under management will be growing from EUR 2.1 billion to EUR 5.0 billion over the next few years. Read more at Impact Fund Denmark
