Manager, Sustainability Reporting

Standard Chartered; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative team within a leading international bank, dedicated to sustainability reporting and compliance. In this pivotal role, you will ensure that external reports meet regulatory requirements while collaborating with various teams to enhance sustainability practices. Your expertise in sustainability standards and financial reporting will be essential as you navigate the complexities of climate-related disclosures. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to meaningful change in finance, working in a supportive environment that values diversity and personal growth. If you are passionate about making a difference, this role is for you!

Benefits

Core bank funding for retirement savings

Medical and life insurance

Flexible working options

Proactive wellbeing support

Continuous learning culture

Generous parental leave

Sabbatical options

Volunteering leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Access to digital learning resources

Qualifications

• Experience in sustainability reporting is highly beneficial.
• Understanding of banking products and IFRS disclosure requirements.

Responsibilities

• Ensure reports meet sustainability regulatory requirements.
• Support strategy development for sustainability disclosures.
• Engage with stakeholders to develop best-in-class disclosures.

Skills

Financial Reporting

Climate Risk and Net Zero Technical Expertise

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Influencing Through Expertise

Education

Qualified Chartered Accountant

Job description

Job Summary

This is a demanding and exciting new role within the newly created Sustainability Reporting team in Group Finance.

Responsibilities include:

• Ensuring that external reports meet applicable TCFD, ISSB, CSRD and other new regulatory sustainability (primarily climate related quantitative disclosure) requirements.
• Working with the Chief Sustainability Office (CSO) team, verifying integrity of quantitative climate, carbon and other sustainability numbers as a control and reporting function.
• Performing a key role within the Group Finance team developing the team’s technical understanding of the latest sustainability standards from the ISSB, FRC, PRA, HKMA and other regulators.
• Benchmarking with peer banks on reporting best practice under the applicable sustainability reporting including Annual Reports, TCFD, ISSB, CSRD and other sustainability documents.
• Addressing and resolving financial reporting issues raised by the Group’s external auditors with regards to sustainability disclosures within the Group reports.
• Building strong working relationships with other teams in the bank focussed on sustainability.
• Developing, and maintaining reporting policies for sustainability, developing capabilities to report under sustainability taxonomies and representing the Group in external industry forums.

Experience in Sustainability reporting, having technical sustainability reporting knowledge, or in providing technical assurance audit/advice on sustainability reporting will be highly beneficial.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Head of Sustainability Reporting and the wider Sustainability and Net Zero global team to develop the Group’s strategy for disclosures in this area and ensure that the data collected is complete and accurate and collected in a controlled manner.
• Ensure that the Annual and when required Half Year accounts as well as quarterly disclosures meet all the applicable sustainability accounting and regulatory requirements.
• Utilise knowledge of IFRS standards and the IFRS Foundation, including the ISSB to help develop and maintain policies for sustainability reporting in the Group’s external financial statements
• Develop and maintain policies for sustainability reporting in the Group’s external financial statements.
• Actively follow current developments in sustainability reporting through monitoring requirements and horizon scanning.
• Engage with other stakeholders across the Group to develop best in class disclosures.
• Act as a TCFD and ISSB expert in its application for preparing group accounts.
• Work with country teams in leveraging off the Group disclosures in preparing country specific TCFD/ISSB disclosures, where applicable.
• See issues through to completion working with other functions as needed.
• Work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with accounting and regulatory requirements, the risk management framework and all internal policies.
• Develop the Operational Risk framework for sustainability reporting.
• Develop a set of accounting reporting policies for sustainability reporting to mirror the Group accounting policy manual.
• Active participation in project governance in respect of Group Financial Reporting's role in projects requiring external reporting expertise, specifically in the sustainability space.
• Support all relevant interaction with regulators – PRA, Bank of England.

Qualifications

• Qualified Chartered Accountant or equivalent with Financial Services background (Banking preferred)
• Demonstrated good understanding of banking products and relevant technical sustainability reporting concepts, including regulatory and statutory IFRS foundation disclosure requirements.
• Ability to communicate with senior stakeholders, including explaining sustainability concepts in a succinct manner.
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong analytical skills and capability for self-directed research and work

Skills and Experience

• Financial Reporting
• Financial Record Keeping
• Financial Process Documentation
• Influencing Through Expertise
• Climate Risk and Net Zero Technical Expertise

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thingand are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle,continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together,we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter,we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance,with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-offincluding annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills,global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning cultureto support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation,one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.