Sustainability Expert - Finance

Summary

Join Quantis as a Sustainability Expert - Finance in Germany and develop winning sustainability strategies for major financial clients. You will combine financial industry insights with sustainability and consulting expertise to drive strategic transformation. Work with banks, insurance providers, and asset managers to shape transition strategies, embed sustainability into core business decisions, and accelerate their shift toward resilient financial models. This role requires proven experience (5+ years) in sustainability within the banking, insurance, or asset management sector, a strong understanding of the German financial system, and some sales and business development experience. You will be responsible for client consulting, sales and business development, strategy and solutions creation, strategic implementation, teamwork, and innovation. The position offers a flexible remote policy and opportunities for collaboration with other Quantis branches.

Requirements

• Bring proven experience (5+ years) working with in sustainability in the banking, insurance, or asset management sector, either through consulting or in-house roles
• Understand how financial actors can meaningfully contribute to climate and nature targets and have led sustainability engagements in this space
• Have a strong understanding of the German financial system, including its regulatory and voluntary frameworks related sustainability — such as CSRD, SBTi and evolving EU sustainability standards
• Have some sales and business development experience of business development and sales experience, and can executeing sales initiatives to bring on new clients in collaboration with sales enablement support
• Understand business strategy and/or strategy consulting, ideally complemented with expertise in the corporate sustainability space
• Communicate effectively in fluent English
• Speak German at least at work proficiency level

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement winning sustainability strategies for our major clients in the financial industry, as well as contribute to the expansion of Quantis' leading edge sustainability strategy solutions
• Combine financial industry insights with sustainability and consulting expertise to help clients drive strategic transformation
• Work with banks, insurance providers, and asset managers to shape ambitious transition strategies, embed sustainability into core business decisions, and accelerate their shift toward resilient, future-fit financial models
• Provide tailored sustainability advisory to financial institutions, applying frameworks such as PCAF, TCFD, SBTi-FI, and TNFD to support clients’ regulatory compliance and transformation journeys
• Lead sales processes and business development conversations
• Lead the implementation of sustainability strategy projects, working with senior sustainability leaders, internally and externally, to develop sustainability strategies, managing their implementation and change pathway
• Support the shaping and delivery of all Quantis solutions around the strategy, bringing in our expertise on science, metrics, tools, communications and more
• Proactively co-create with our other Quantis team members to strengthen our delivery of strategy-related services
• Support efforts within Quantis’ innovation activities to develop a new generation of smart sustainability strategy solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Have an entrepreneurial spirit to be part of a team finding new solutions using this expertise to change the world
• Be highly motivated by the challenges of guiding global companies on a sustainable change pathway, adapting your strategy expertise to new challenges and innovating new paths to success

Benefits

• Flexible remote policy
• Frequent collaboration with other Quantis branches (France, USA, Switzerland and Italy) via web-conferences
• Ability to travel occasionally