Overview

You will be responsible for supporting the Entity Reporting & Group Reporting LT to deliver the finance vision and successfully transition to a future state team which is efficient, structured, and accountable. You will work directly with the Director of Entity & Group Reporting to the finance strategy on sustainability reporting.

Key objectives for the individual in this role will be:

  • Drive forward the development of the sustainability reporting strategy within finance and be a primary point of contact, providing SME advice and insight, and ensuring Finance is ready for emerging regulatory and internal sustainability reporting requirements.
  • Lead in the transfer of ownership of regulatory-driven ESG disclosures within financial statements from the Group Sustainability Team, the supporting internal control environment, and oversight of ESG assurance.
  • Drive, lead  and shape the development of the finance sustainability TOM, Gap analysis & implementation plan for a sustainability control framework.
  • Lead the provision of controlled sustainability reporting for entities in scope of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (“TCFD”) reporting requirements.
  • Management of senior stakeholders to brief on pertinent matters related to the group’s sustainability and climate reporting
  • Entity board and other governance reporting
  • Engagement with internal and external audit, and timely closure of management actions.
  • Drive the production of high quality BAU technical papers and local technical change for sustainability reporting.
  • Accountable for the control framework operating over the sustainability reporting, including controls assessment, risk management and reporting.
  • Ownership for change (including regulatory change) and local process improvements, ensuring change is understood, appropriately tested and implemented safely.
  • Operational management of resources to ensure deliveries of the team are met.

What are we looking for?

  • Strong technical knowledge of sustainability reporting requirements in a financial services context, under a range of mandatory and voluntary frameworks (such as TCFD), reporting standards (IFRS S1/S2) and other regulations including UK SRS , ISSB and IFRS S3/S4, and CSRD[1]and SDR.
  • Attention to detail to help us ensure our data and reporting can be validated to the external market and both internal and external auditors.
  • The ability to deliver in high pressure environment whilst maintaining quality, resilience, and outcome focus. Regularly working to defined and tight timescales whilst maintaining professional standards.
  • Ability to influence and challenge thinking at a senior level faced with a range of conflicting priorities and opinions, using exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to anticipate challenges and issues across a 1 -3-year horizon for change, challenge and growth. Continually seeking to bring the ‘outside in’ and use external insight to shape the strategic and operational priorities, as well as the operating model of the business to build organisational excellence with industry leading standards.

We’re reviewing applications as they come in, so apply early to avoid missing out.

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