Senior Specialist, ESG Data Solutions & Controls

BNY Mellon; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY Mellon seeks a Senior Specialist in ESG Data Solutions & Controls to drive governance and automation of sustainability data. You will work hybrid in New York City, collaborating with business and engineering teams to improve data quality and enable scalable reporting for regulatory and management needs.

Responsibilities include documenting data requirements, resolving data quality issues, and enabling AI-powered workflows to advance automation across the ESG data foundation.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in data management, data architecture, analytics, risk, or project delivery in regulated environments with strong preference for exposure to sustainability data / regulation.
• Experience supporting data workflows with cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with data quality, data documentation, controls, or reporting processes.
• Experience with Excel, SQL, Jira, AI tools.
• Strong organization and follow-through; able to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Clear communicator; able to work across business and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Support sustainability data governance and automation workstreams, ensuring delivery against defined timelines across business and engineering teams.
• Execute data governance activities, including documenting data requirements, tracking data quality issues, and supporting resolution.
• Leverage understanding of sustainability data requirements/regulation to work with data providers to collect, validate, and prepare sustainability data for regulatory and management reporting.
• Partner with Engineering to transition manual reporting processes into automated data flows, with clearly documented business requirements and data definitions.
• Identify and track data issues, helping improve data quality and consistency over time.
• Create and use AI-enabled tools and workflows to improve reporting, documentation, and management decisioning.

Skills

Data management

Data architecture

Analytics

Risk management

Project delivery

Cross-functional collaboration

Data quality

Data documentation

Controls

Reporting processes

Communication

Tools

Excel

SQL

Jira

AI tools

Job description

Senior Specialist, ESG Data Solutions & Controls

Role Responsibilities:

We're seeking a Senior Specialist within the Sustainability Hub to support sustainability data governance and automation delivery. This role focuses on hands‑on execution to improve data quality, reduce manual processes, and enable regulatory reporting, while helping build the ESG data foundation that supports automation, AI, and scalable reporting across the Hub. This is a HYBRID role located in New York City.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Support sustainability data governance and automation workstreams, ensuring delivery against defined timelines across business and engineering teams.
• Execute data governance activities, including documenting data requirements, tracking data quality issues, and supporting resolution.
• Leveraging your understanding of sustainability data requirements/regulation, to work with data providers to collect, validate, and prepare sustainability related data for regulatory and management reporting, with increasing focus on more governed, reusable, and scalable data inputs.
• Partner with Engineering to help transition manual reporting processes (e.g., Excel -based workflows) into automated data flows, using clearly documented business requirements and data definitions.
• Identify and track data issues, helping improve data quality and consistency over time.
• Create and use AI-enabled tools and workflows to improve reporting, documentation, and management decisioning, supporting the Hub's broader shift toward automation and AI-enabled ways of working.

Qualifications

To be successful in the role, we're seeking the following:

• 3-5 years of experience in data management, data architecture, analytics, risk, or project delivery in regulated environments with strong preference for exposure to sustainability data / regulation.
• Experience supporting data workflows with cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with data quality, data documentation, controls, or reporting processes.
• Experience with technical tools such as Excel, SQL, Jira, AI tools.
• Strong organization and follow-through; able to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Clear communicator; able to work across business and engineering teams.