SmartSuite for the ESG Compliance Lead
The ESG Compliance Lead aligns sustainability and social responsibility efforts with enterprise governance and compliance frameworks. They integrate ESG risks into the enterprise register, map disclosures to control frameworks and track environmental and social metrics tied to governance initiatives.
What you own
- Map ESG disclosure requirements to controls and obligations
- Integrate ESG risks into the enterprise risk register
- Monitor ESG regulatory developments such as CSRD and SEC climate rules
- Coordinate ESG controls testing and evidence
- Track ESG compliance actions and remediation
- Report ESG compliance status to compliance and sustainability leadership
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ESG risk assessment
Integrates ESG risks into enterprise risk registers.
Framework alignment
Maps ESG disclosures to GRC control frameworks.
Performance reporting
Tracks environmental and social metrics tied to corporate governance initiatives.
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How SmartSuite supports this role
ESG. Maps ESG disclosures to GRC control frameworks so ESG reporting is governed like any other obligation.
Risk management. Integrates ESG risks into enterprise risk registers with scoring and ownership.
Compliance management. Tracks ESG regulatory requirements and the controls and evidence that satisfy them.
Reporting. Tracks environmental and social metrics tied to corporate governance initiatives.
Industry reference
CSRD and the ESRS make sustainability reporting a legal obligation with assurance, and ISSB IFRS S1 and S2 are being adopted into law across jurisdictions, so ESG disclosures now need the control and evidence discipline ISO 37301:2021 describes. COSO's guidance on internal control over sustainability reporting (2023) maps the 2013 framework onto ESG data.
Regulatory scope varies by sector: SFDR and EBA Pillar 3 ESG rules for financial institutions, California's climate disclosure laws for large companies, EU due-diligence and deforestation rules for supply chains, and stock-exchange ESG rules for listed technology and healthcare companies.
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