Director, Sustainability Reporting

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.

The candidate will need to have strong stakeholder management skills to share insight in a clear and concise fashion to senior management and other key stakeholders. Decision making and problem solving is core to the role. The successful candidate will be skilled in identifying and ensuring a full understanding of issues before making their recommendations. 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.
• 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.
• Liaise with external auditors to support the resolution of accounting and reporting issues faced by the Group and countries during the Group audit process, and quarterly review process.
• Ensure the provision of ongoing technical training and development of people with regards to the latest disclosures and accounting/regulatory requirements for broader sustainability requirements.
• 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

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.

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-off including 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 working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through 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 culture to 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.