Senior Sustainability Compliance Specialist

Your Role in Our Story: 

In essence, your role involves:

• Own sustainability compliance activities across key product lines, ensuring they meet applicable regulatory and certification requirements and enabling uninterrupted trading and market access.
• Manage certification and audit processes, including frameworks such as ISCC, REDcert, Better Biomass and French White Certificates (CEE), coordinating with certification bodies and resolving issues efficiently.
• Ensure data and documentation quality by reviewing and validating sustainability information, supporting accurate reporting, audits, certifications and customer requirements.
• Partner with Sales and Operations to provide practical compliance advice, assess risks and enable informed, compliant transactions while minimizing delays and exposure.
• Monitor and apply regulatory requirements, interpreting evolving national, EU and international standards and translating them into effective day-to-day compliance processes.
• Safeguard product and financial integrity by reconciling sustainability positions and inventory across platforms and validating transactional data for completeness and reliable downstream reporting.
• Collaborate across functions including Finance, Risk, IT and Legal to improve processes, strengthen controls and contribute to technology and straight-through-processing initiatives.
• Build trusted relationships with clients and external stakeholders, clearly communicating sustainability compliance requirements and status while helping deliver a high-quality, client-centric service.

 

 

 

Your Expertise: 

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates with the following qualifications and attributes:

• Relevant academic background: A university degree in business administration, environmental science, engineering, law or a related field.
• Relevant professional experience: 2–4+ years of experience in product, environmental or sustainability compliance, ideally within biomass, renewable fuels or renewable gas trading.
• Sustainability compliance knowledge: A solid understanding of renewable fuels, gas trading, energy efficiency or other regulated environmental commodities and their regulatory frameworks.
• Operational & financial acumen: Good understanding of accounting principles, calculations, operational processes and data quality control, with the ability to manage activities accurately and independently.
• Analytical problem-solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex situations, identify root causes and develop practical solutions.
• Process & systems mindset: Ability to identify inefficiencies, improve processes and contribute to system or software implementations, supported by strong data-analysis skills.
• Stakeholder & client focus: A collaborative, client-oriented mindset with the ability to communicate clearly, balance commercial priorities with operational control and work effectively across functions and geographies.
• Autonomy & adaptability: A self-starter with strong organization and time-management skills, able to manage multiple priorities, work under pressure and adapt in a fast-paced, multicultural environment. Experience with multi-country compliance operations, French CEE requirements, French or Spanish, energy trading, product stewardship or voluntary schemes such as Better Biomass or EcoEnergy would be an advantage.

If you meet these criteria and are ready to contribute your expertise to a dynamic and challenging environment, we encourage you to apply.