Anthesis Group

Director – Risk & Resilience

Anthesis Group

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Melbourne • Australia

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • - Lead and mentor a team of Principals, Senior Consultants, and Consultants, ensuring high performance, technical excellence, and continual development.
  • - Set team direction, manage capacity, oversee quality, and create a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
  • - Strengthen capability across climate risk assessment, scenario analysis, ASRS/ISSB disclosure, and adaptation/resilience planning.
  • - Work closely with the APAC Climate & Nature Director to shape practice strategy, market priorities, and long-term growth plans. Additionally, work with the Global Lead for Risk & Resilience based in the UK to contribute to moving forward our global sales, delivery and capabilities.
  • - Drive growth across ASRS/ISSB reporting, climate risk programs, and adaptation and resilience projects, including developing new client relationships and expanding existing accounts.
  • - Lead proposal development, commercial scoping, pitch leadership, and negotiation for strategic opportunities across APAC.
  • - Identify emerging market needs and co-develop new service offerings that differentiate Anthesis within Australia and APAC.
  • - Represent Anthesis in industry forums, conferences, standards dialogues, and thought leadership activities.
  • - Act as senior advisor and trusted partner to boards, executives, and senior risk/finance leaders across key sectors.
  • - Provide strategic guidance on climate-related risks, governance, controls, disclosure strategy, and resilience pathways.
  • - Oversee delivery of climate risk projects, ensuring high-quality outputs, well-managed teams, and delighted clients.
  • - Shape and review client deliverables, disclosures, scenario analyses, risk assessments, resilience plans, ensuring technical rigor and strategic clarity.
  • - Work closely with the ESG Reporting & Strategy team to deliver integrated ASRS/ISSB programs, including audit and assurance readiness.
  • - Serve as a senior technical reviewer and escalation point on climate risk method development, scenario analysis approaches, and disclosure frameworks (ASRS, ISSB, TCFD).
  • - Guide clients on aligning climate risk outputs with broader corporate risk frameworks, strategy processes, and financial reporting.
  • - Bring familiarity with climate science, climate model interpretation, hazard datasets, and regulatory expectations to support robust delivery.

Requirements

  • - 10+ years in climate risk, sustainability, or related advisory fields, with significant experience leading client accounts and delivery teams.
  • - Strong technical grounding in physical and transition climate risk assessment, scenario analysis, and climate-related financial disclosures.
  • - Demonstrated experience supporting or leading ASRS/ISSB/TCFD-aligned disclosures and associated governance and audit requirements.
  • - A strong commercial mindset: comfortable with sales, negotiation, pipeline management, and C-Suite engagement.
  • - Leadership experience: managing advisors, building capability, and creating high performing, collaborative teams.
  • - Ability to transform complex regulatory or scientific information into clear, strategic recommendations and business relevant insights for senior audiences.
  • - Outstanding communication skills, written, verbal, and interpersonal—with a track record of winning work and building long-term client relationships.
  • - Relevant academic background in climate science, environmental science, sustainability, risk, engineering, finance, or similar.
  • - Eagerness to capacity build, grow, and challenge your team.
  • - Experience working in collaboration as part of a wider international team.
  • - Australian residency or work visa for at least 2 years.
  • **Bonus if you also have:**
  • - Experience developing financial models that quantify climate related risks and opportunities into financial impacts across revenue, cost, capital expenditure, asset valuation, and enterprise value.
  • - Experience with CMIP6 climate data, physical risk modelling tools, or sector-specific transition pathways including using NGFS and IEA datasets.
  • - Familiarity with TNFD or nature-related risk and resilience approaches.
  • - Experience working across APAC regulatory contexts (e.g., Australia, Singapore, Philippines, Japan).
Benefits
  • - Five weeks paid annual leave.
  • - Opportunity to be mentored by leading experts in the field in a supportive learning environment.
  • - Opportunity for travel and get out in the field.
  • - We promote from within.
  • - Best in class EAP program for you and your immediate family
  • - Flexible working hours and hybrid working environment.
  • - Exposure to diverse industries and projects within the fields of carbon, energy and nature-based solutions.
  • - Positive workplace culture and a like-minded team.
  • - Opportunity to develop the skills to launch your career in this emerging area.
  • - Competitive remuneration package commensurate with skills and experience.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
climate risk assessmentscenario analysisASRS disclosureISSB disclosureTCFD disclosurefinancial modelingclimate model interpretationhazard datasetsaudit readinessgovernance
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationnegotiationcollaborationstrategic thinkingclient relationship managementcapacity buildingteam managementcommercial mindsetinterpersonal skills