Senior Specialist, ESG Data Solutions & Controls

BNY; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY is seeking a Senior Specialist in ESG Data Solutions & Controls to help govern sustainability data and deliver automation. The role focuses on hands-on execution to improve data quality, reduce manual steps, and enable regulatory reporting from a foundation that supports AI and scalable reporting in a hybrid NYC setting.

You will partner with Engineering to automate workflows, document data definitions, and ensure timely delivery while leveraging AI tools to enhance reporting and decision

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in data management or analytics in regulated environments.
• Experience with cross-functional data workflows.
• Familiarity with data quality, documentation, controls, or reporting.
• Proficiency with Excel, SQL, Jira and AI tools.
• Strong organization and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Clear communicator across business and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Support sustainability data governance and automation workstreams, delivering against defined timelines across business and engineering teams.
• Document data requirements, track data quality issues, and support resolution.
• Collect, validate, and prepare sustainability data for regulatory and management reporting with scalable inputs.
• Transition manual reporting processes into automated data flows with clear business requirements.
• Identify and track data issues to improve data quality over time.
• Create and use AI-enabled tools to improve reporting and decisioning for automation.

Skills

Data management

Data architecture

Analytics

Risk/compliance

Project delivery

Cross-functional collaboration

Data quality

Data documentation

Controls and reporting

Excel

Tools

Excel

SQL

Jira

AI tools

Job description

Senior Specialist, ESG Data Solutions & Controls

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.

Role Responsibilities

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

• 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.

About Us

At BNY, our culture allows us to run our company better and enables employees’ growth and success. As a leading global financial services company at the heart of the global financial system, we influence nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day, our teams harness cutting‑edge AI and breakthrough technologies to collaborate with clients, driving transformative solutions that redefine industries and uplift communities worldwide.

About The Team

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself, check out the latest BNY news at BNY Newsroom & BNY LinkedIn

Here’s a Few Of Our Recent Awards

• America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2025
• World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2025
• “Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2025

Our Benefits And Rewards

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay‑for‑performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

BNY assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The expected base salary for this position when employment commences can be found in the Job Info section at the bottom of the posting.

Base salary offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Base salary is only part of the total rewards package, which may include eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award. Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan as well as participate in Company‑sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee’s eligible dependents. Eligible employees also may receive other benefits (including various paid time off benefits, such as vacation and sick time), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, the employee will be in an “at will” position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payments or compensation programs) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.