Climate Metrics, Reporting & Controls Lead - Vice President

96 Morgan Stanley UK Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Competitive benefits

Global exposure

Job summary

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Climate Metrics, Reporting & Controls Lead to oversee financed emissions reporting, governance, and assurance readiness. You will coordinate across GSO, Finance, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Technology, and external partners to deliver reliable climate information and audit-ready disclosures.

The role requires seven+ years in sustainability within financial services, with strong data, analytics, and stakeholder management capabilities.

Qualifications

• Seven+ years in sustainability- or climate-related roles in financial services.
• Familiar with GHG inventories, climate data, and ESG disclosures.
• Strong analytical and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience with audits, assurance, regulators, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee enterprise and legal-entity sustainability disclosures and reporting.
• Lead financing emissions methodology and related metrics.
• Drive data governance, controls, and assurance readiness.
• Partner with tech and data teams to enhance systems for climate metrics.

Skills

Financed emissions accounting

Climate reporting

Data governance

Regulatory disclosures

Stakeholder communication

SQL

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in sustainability, environmental science, data science, or related field

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

SQL

Python

Alteryx

Job description

The Firmwide Sustainability team within the Global Sustainability Office is seeking a Climate Metrics, Reporting & Controls Lead responsible for overseeing financed emissions and other climate metrics reporting, including accurate and consistent public disclosures, effective data governance and controls, assurance readiness, and implementation of regulatory requirements. The role combines technical expertise, sound judgment, and hands-on execution, working across the Global Sustainability Office (GSO), Finance, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Technology, Data, Business teams, and external partners to deliver reliable, decision-useful, and audit-ready climate information. The successful candidate will play a leading role in the annual development, assurance, and reporting cycle, translate evolving requirements into documented methodologies and processes, and develop recommendations for senior management and governance forums across relevant Morgan Stanley legal entities. The individual will also serve as a key contributor to cross-functional workstreams that strengthen the Firm's climate reporting operating model.

Key Responsibilities

Climate Metrics Reporting

• Oversee the production of enterprise and legal-entity sustainability and climate-specific disclosures, including annual voluntary and regulatory reporting.
• Drive enhancements to the operating model and delivery roadmap for calculating financed emissions and other climate-related metrics across the Firm.
• Apply and maintain consistent and credible Scope 3 Category 15 greenhouse gas accounting approaches across absolute financed emissions, sector-specific portfolio intensity metrics, and other applicable climate metrics.
• Ensure consistent disclosure language, reporting positions, and levels of detail across entities and markets.
• Produce accurate, timely, and decision-useful reporting for senior management, governance committees, regulators, auditors, and other relevant stakeholders.

Data Governance, Controls, and Process Improvement

• Manage the annual internal and external assurance process, including engagement with external auditors, variance analysis, control walkthroughs, issue remediation, attestations, and escalation of material issues.
• Integrate, transform, and analyze complex data from internal systems and third-party providers to support accurate, repeatable, and well-controlled climate metrics calculation and reporting.
• Establish and maintain methodologies, documentation, policies, procedures, and control evidence aligned with reporting requirements, data sources, assumptions, and governance expectations.
• Partner with GSO Digital Products and Technology teams to define business requirements and identify and support enhancements to systems and tools used for climate metrics measurement and reporting.

Strategic Partnership and Stakeholder Management

• Serve as a subject-matter expert on financed emissions accounting, sustainability data, reporting methodologies, and controls, providing practical guidance to senior management and governance forums.
• Engage with external standard-setting bodies, trade associations, and/or policymakers as needed to help shape relevant market standards and practices.
• Guide the implementation of evolving climate reporting requirements, including impact assessments, delivery coordination, and integration into the reporting and control framework.
• Coordinate engagement with assurance providers, data vendors, and other relevant external partners, as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in sustainability, environmental science, data science, statistics, computer science, engineering, finance, accounting, business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least seven years of relevant experience within or working closely with the global financial services sector, in sustainability- or climate-transition-related teams and/or relevant finance, consulting, accounting, risk, control, or regulatory implementation roles.
• Familiarity with financed emissions accounting, greenhouse gas inventories, climate data, sustainability reporting, or ESG regulatory disclosures.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience working with complex methodologies and large or disparate datasets.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate reporting considerations and material issues clearly to senior and technical stakeholders.
• High attention to detail, sound judgment, and a practical, solutions-oriented approach.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver complex work through collaborative teams across different geographies.
• Knowledge of sustainability and climate reporting frameworks and requirements, such as the GHG Protocol, PCAF, ISSB, CSRD, CDP, and TCFD-aligned disclosures, is a plus.
• Experience leading or supporting engagements with auditors, assurance providers, regulators, or governance bodies is preferred.
• Proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint; familiarity with data analysis or visualization tools and programming languages such as SQL, Python, Power BI, Alteryx, or comparable solutions is a plus.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients - helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that is differentiated - and we've done that for 90 years.

Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren't just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries.

At Morgan Stanley, you'll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered.

Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences.

We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry.

There's also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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Certified Persons Regulatory Requirements

If this role is deemed a Certified role and may require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications or the minimum qualifications to meet internal company benchmarks.

Flexible work statement

Interested in flexible working opportunities? Morgan Stanley empowers employees to have greater freedom of choice through flexible working arrangements. Speak to our recruitment team to find out more.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background.

Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

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At Morgan Stanley, we advise, originate, trade, manage and distribute capital for people, governments and institutions, always with a standard of excellence and guided by our core values.

Morgan Stanley is dedicated to providing first-class service to our clients, in a way that reflects our commitment to creating a more sustainable future and fostering stronger communities around the world.

In each line of business, we strive to demonstrate our belief in the power of transformative thinking, innovative strategies and leading-edge solutions - and in the ability of capital to work for the benefit of all society.