Sustainability Manager

The Opportunity

This is a key opportunity within a global financial services organisation's Group Finance function, sitting within a specialist Sustainability Reporting team responsible for delivering the organisation's ESG, climate, and sustainability reporting agenda across a rapidly evolving global regulatory landscape.

The team plays a central role in shaping how the organisation measures, governs, and communicates its sustainability performance and climate impact, ensuring reporting is robust, auditable, and aligned to emerging global standards.

While the role has a strong focus on financed emissions reporting, it also sits within a broader ESG reporting and sustainability disclosure capability spanning climate-related financial disclosures, ESG metrics, and enterprise-wide sustainability reporting initiatives.

This is a highly visible role at the intersection of financial reporting, ESG disclosure, and strategic sustainability transformation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to the organisation's financed emissions reporting capability, including methodology application and ongoing enhancement
• Support broader ESG and sustainability reporting across climate, environmental, social, and governance metrics
• Develop and enhance reporting frameworks aligned to evolving standards and expectations (e.g. climate disclosures and ESG regulatory requirements)
• Partner with Finance, Risk, and business stakeholders to embed ESG reporting into broader financial and management reporting processes
• Contribute to strategic sustainability reporting initiatives, including uplift of reporting capability, data quality, and governance frameworks
• Drive process improvement, transformation, and automation initiatives to improve reporting efficiency and integrity
• Monitor and interpret developments in global ESG regulation, climate disclosure frameworks, and industry best practice

Candidate Profile

We are seeking candidates with a strong foundation in audit, assurance, financial reporting, or regulatory reporting, ideally with exposure or interest in ESG, sustainability, or climate-related disclosure.

You may come from:

• Big 4 / assurance (financial services clients highly regarded)
• Financial reporting, group reporting, or regulatory reporting roles within banking or large corporates
• ESG reporting, sustainability reporting, or climate disclosure teams
• Finance transformation or reporting control-focused environments

You will bring:

• Strong technical grounding in accounting, audit, or assurance principles, with an understanding of controls and governance
• Exposure to, or strong interest in, ESG frameworks and climate disclosure standards (e.g. GHG Protocol, PCAF, TCFD, ISSB)
• Strong analytical capability and comfort working with complex and evolving datasets
• Experience working in change-heavy, transformation-oriented environments
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills across Finance, Risk, Sustainability, and technical teams
• A background in accounting, finance, economics, engineering, or climate-related disciplines will be highly regarded.

Why This Role

This role offers a rare opportunity to step into a strategic sustainability reporting function within a global financial institution, combining technical ESG reporting with broader transformation and commercial impact.

You will gain exposure to:

• End-to-end ESG and climate reporting frameworks across a global organisation
• Financed emissions and broader climate impact measurement methodologies
• Strategic sustainability reporting initiatives shaping external disclosures and internal decision-making
• A highly visible role influencing how sustainability data is embedded into financial reporting and governance
• Strong long-term pathways into ESG leadership, regulatory reporting, finance transformation, or sustainability strategy roles