Sustainability Reporting Consultant in Greece: What to Look For, What It Costs, How It Works

Most Greek companies do not go looking for a sustainability reporting consultant because they woke up wanting a report. They look because someone asked: a large customer with a supplier questionnaire, a bank with ESG criteria in the loan terms, a tender that scores sustainability, or a parent company that now has to report on its whole value chain. This page explains what a sustainability reporting consultant does, what the work looks like from the inside, what it costs, and how to choose one in Greece without paying for more than you need.

Enable Good is a sustainability and impact advisory based in Athens. We prepare sustainability and ESG reports for companies in Greece and across Europe, aligned with GRI, ESRS and the voluntary standard for SMEs. Clients for reporting work include Vikos and Energean. If you already know you need help, the fastest route is a free 20-minute call through our services page. If you want to understand the work first, keep reading.

What a sustainability reporting consultant actually does

A sustainability report is a document that presents a company's environmental, social and governance performance with data, not declarations: energy and emissions, water and waste, working conditions and safety, training, ethics, supply chain practices, targets and progress. A consultant's job is to get a company from "we have some of this somewhere" to a report that a customer, a bank or an auditor can rely on. In practice that means five things:

1. Scoping and materiality. Working out which sustainability topics genuinely matter for your business and your stakeholders, so the report covers what counts and skips what does not.
2. Framework selection. Choosing the standard the report will follow (GRI, ESRS, or the voluntary SME standard) based on who is asking for the report and what they will compare it against.
3. Data mapping and collection. Finding where the numbers live (utility bills, HR systems, safety logs, procurement records), setting up a way to collect them, and filling the gaps.
4. Writing and structuring. Turning the data into a report that reads clearly, follows the framework's disclosure structure, and does not overclaim.
5. Review and quality assurance. Checking every figure against its source, so the report survives a supplier audit or a bank's due diligence.

What a good consultant does not do is write your report from a template with your logo on it. Readers can tell, and so can the customer's procurement team.

Which framework fits a company in Greece

This is the first decision and it drives everything else. The three that matter for Greek companies today:

• The voluntary standard for SMEs (VSME). Designed for companies with no sustainability team that need to answer the questionnaires their large customers send. For most Greek SMEs it is the most practical first report.
• GRI Standards. The most widely used sustainability reporting framework in the world. The right choice when the report needs to be recognised outside the EU, or when investors and international customers expect it.
• ESRS under CSRD. The European standards for large companies in scope of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. Comprehensive and demanding; usually only the right choice if the law requires it of you or of a parent company that needs your data in that shape.

Frameworks overlap heavily, so a report built properly on one can usually be extended to another later. The full comparison is in ESG reporting frameworks explained: CSRD, ESRS and GRI.

How the work runs, step by step

1. A first call to understand who is asking for the report, by when, and what you already have.
2. A readiness review: which data exists, which is missing, and what the gaps mean for the framework you have chosen.
3. A reporting plan with a realistic timeline, owners for each data area inside your company, and the disclosure structure the final report will follow.
4. Data collection, with the consultant chasing sources and checking figures alongside your team.
5. Drafting, review rounds with your management, and a final report ready to send to whoever asked for it.

A first report for an SME typically takes two to three months from the first call, most of it spent on data rather than writing. A company that already collects its numbers can be faster. A large company reporting under ESRS for the first time should allow considerably longer.

What a sustainability reporting consultant costs in Greece

There are two very different price bands. Big Four and large consulting firms price sustainability reporting for listed multinationals, with teams, assurance pathways and fees to match. Specialist boutique advisories price for SMEs, mid-market companies and nonprofits, with a senior person doing the work rather than supervising a junior team. The honest comparison, including when the Big Four really are the right choice, is in Boutique sustainability advisory vs the Big Four.

Within the boutique band, cost depends on three things: the framework (a VSME report is far less work than an ESRS one), how much data already exists, and whether the company wants a one-off report or a system it can repeat next year. Enable Good quotes a fixed scope after the first call, so there is no open-ended day rate. Ask any consultant for the same.

How to choose: six questions to ask

1. Who will actually do the work? Ask to meet the person who will write the report, not the partner who sells it.
2. Which frameworks have you reported under? Ask for GRI, ESRS and VSME by name and listen for specifics.
3. Can you show a report you prepared? Published reports are public; a consultant who has none to show has not done many.
4. How do you handle data we do not have? The answer should be a method for closing gaps, not a promise to estimate.
5. What does the report look like next year? A good consultant leaves behind a data process, not just a PDF.
6. What is the fixed price for our scope? If the answer is a day rate with no ceiling, keep looking.

Working with Enable Good

Enable Good is a boutique advisory in Athens, founded by Elpida Vasileiadis, a sustainability and impact strategist who has worked with leading corporations and major nonprofit organisations on sustainability reporting, ESG strategy and Social Return on Investment. We prepare sustainability and ESG reports aligned with GRI, ESRS and the voluntary SME standard for companies in Greece and across Europe, alongside ESG strategy, SROI and impact reports, and EcoVadis preparation. Every report we deliver is built on the company's own data and checked figure by figure.

If you want to know where you stand before talking to anyone, the free ESG Readiness Check takes twelve questions and shows which parts of a first report you already have covered. If you would rather talk it through, book a free 20-minute call. We will tell you plainly whether you need a consultant at all.