ESG Reporting Specialist

The core mission is to make Van Mossel's ESG information reliable enough to be published and audited. Day to day this means gathering data from country organisations, checking completeness and consistency, and feeding it into consolidation and reporting tools. You maintain the systems themselves, improve how the data flows, and build the dashboards that give management a current picture rather than a yearly snapshot. A second strand is the annual sustainability statement under CSRD, ESRS and the EU Taxonomy. That involves translating each disclosure requirement into a concrete data request, defining who delivers what and by when, and keeping evidence trails that an assurance provider can follow. Audit readiness is a standing responsibility, not a year-end task. Longer term, you contribute to professionalising the whole reporting cycle: sharper controls, fewer manual steps, better definitions, and a data structure that can absorb new regulation without a rebuild each time.

The clearest learning is regulatory depth. Working hands-on with CSRD, ESRS and the EU Taxonomy on a real multi-country filing teaches you how the standards behave in practice, which is knowledge still scarce in the market. You would also learn how assurance engagements work from the inside: what auditors ask for, how materiality is argued, and where documentation usually falls short. On the technical side, expect growth in data management and reporting systems, consolidation logic, control design and dashboard building. Because the group operates in seven countries, you would get exposure to how different national entities organise their data and how to standardise that without breaking local reality. There is also a softer gain: learning to move between the language of finance, the language of sustainability and the language of IT, and to keep all three audiences on the same page.

The posting points to a finance-track profile: an hbo degree in finance, business economics, accountancy or similar, rather than a pure environmental science background. Assurance experience is the strongest signal, because it shows you already understand evidence, controls and how a number gets tested. Add working knowledge of CSRD, ESRS and the EU Taxonomy, ideally applied rather than theoretical. On skills, the mix is analytical rigour plus process thinking. You should be comfortable with data analysis and reporting systems, and able to define a control that actually catches errors rather than one that exists on paper. Structured working habits and attention to detail matter more here than creative flair. Language is a practical filter: strong Dutch and English, spoken and written, since you will work with Dutch colleagues and with country organisations abroad. A curious, critical and results-oriented attitude rounds it out, along with the patience to keep asking for the same data until it is right.

Lead your CV with the reporting regulation, not with sustainability interest. Van Mossel is hiring for CSRD, ESRS and EU Taxonomy competence plus assurance and internal control experience, so name the standards you have worked with and say what you actually did: which disclosures, which entities, which auditor, what you fixed. If you have built or improved a reporting process, quantify the before and after. In your letter, address the multi-country dimension directly. The group spans the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Germany, France and the UK, so show that you have collected data across entities or business units and handled the inconsistencies that come with it. Mentioning how you would approach data quality and audit readiness at that scale will read as preparation, not speculation. For the interview, be ready to explain one regulation in plain language to a non-specialist and to describe a control you designed. The role reports to the Group ESG manager and works at the junction of sustainability, data, control and technology, so expect questions that test whether you can hold all four at once.

The focus is reporting and compliance rather than operational decarbonisation. That means the annual sustainability statement under CSRD, ESRS and the EU Taxonomy, and the data foundation behind it. Environmental topics will run through the E of those standards, including emissions and energy, but your angle is measurement and disclosure quality. For an automotive retail and leasing group with more than 600 locations, the data perimeter is broad: energy use and emissions from buildings and workshops, fleet and mobility figures, and the social and governance indicators that CSRD requires alongside them. Getting the boundary right across seven countries is a large part of the substance. You would also be shaping how sustainability information becomes steering information, so management decisions on energy, fleet and operations can rest on numbers that have been validated rather than estimated.

The hardest part is likely the data perimeter. Van Mossel operates through many entities and locations in several countries, each with its own systems and habits, so consolidating consistent ESG data means negotiating definitions and deadlines repeatedly. The role sits at the intersection of sustainability, finance, control and IT, and those functions do not always share priorities. Regulation adds pressure. CSRD, ESRS and the EU Taxonomy are detailed and still being interpreted in practice, and assurance expectations tighten the margin for error. You may find yourself explaining requirements to colleagues who see them as administrative burden, and doing so without authority over their reporting. There is also a timing challenge: the work peaks around the annual statement, yet the improvements that make that period manageable have to be made in the quieter months, which requires discipline and forward planning.

Mornings often go to the data itself: pulling extracts from reporting systems, checking entries against source documents, chasing country contacts about gaps or unexplained movements, and updating the consolidation file. Because the group spans multiple countries, some of this happens in English and some in Dutch, and time zones and calendars shape when answers arrive. Midday and afternoon tend to bring meetings. You might sit with the Group ESG manager on the reporting calendar, with finance or control colleagues on definitions and evidence, or with IT on how a system change affects the data flow. Dashboard and management reporting work fits in between, along with documenting controls so they stand up to review. In the run-up to the annual sustainability statement, the rhythm shifts towards disclosure drafting, assurance requests and deadline tracking. Outside that peak, more of the day goes to process improvement, system development and preparing for the next reporting cycle.

This is a specialist role inside a young and expanding ESG function, which usually means the scope can grow with the person. Strong performance in reporting and controls could lead to broader ownership of the ESG reporting cycle, or to a role coordinating the sustainability statement end to end as the group's obligations widen. CSRD and assurance expertise is portable and in demand, so the skills built here open doors both inside Van Mossel and in the wider market. Internally, the international structure offers lateral movement towards finance, internal control or data and systems roles, since the work already touches those areas. High-visibility projects are likely to include system selection or redesign, taxonomy alignment and audit preparation. These are the assignments that put a reporting specialist in front of senior management and country organisations, which is where advancement usually starts.

Your closest working relationship is with the Group ESG manager, who sets direction and to whom you report. Around that sit finance and internal control colleagues, who share ownership of data quality, controls and audit readiness, and IT or system owners who support the reporting and consolidation tools. The most frequent external-facing interactions are with the country organisations and business units that supply data. You request, clarify and validate their figures, which requires tact as much as technical skill, since you depend on their cooperation without managing them. Assurance providers are another key group: you prepare evidence, answer their questions and close their findings. Further out, you may deal with auditors, external advisers on CSRD interpretation, and management readers of your dashboards and reports. The pattern is a small central team relying on a wide network of contributors.