Vice President, Corporate Sustainability Reporting - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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About this role

BlackRock is one of the world's preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary and individual investors around the world.

BlackRock offers a rangeof solutions - from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world's capital markets.

Our clients can access our investmentsolutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares ETFs.

Business Unit Overview:

BlackRock EMEA Finance consists of Finance professionals in disciplines such as Financial Planning and Analysis, Treasury, Tax, Regulatory Reporting, Accounting Operations and Corporate Accounting.

This role forms part of the Edinburgh based Controllers Groupand sits within the Corporate Sustainability Reporting team. Corporate Sustainability Reporting is a new team with responsibility for mandatory sustainability reporting impacting BlackRock's corporate entities.

In its day-to-day activities the Edinburgh based team has significant interaction with the US based Corporate Sustainability team which has responsibility for, amongst other things, accelerating the firm's environmental sustainability efforts.

The team alsooffers excellent opportunities to interact with a broad array of BlackRock teams, including:

the Global Public Policy Group, BlackRock Platform Innovation, Risk and Quantitative Analysis, Legal and Compliance, Governance and Financial and Prudential Reporting,as well as the other global Finance teams.

Purpose/Background:

A senior accountant/sustainability specialist is required to join the Corporate Sustainability Reporting team based in Edinburgh. The team currently comprises 1 member of staff, the Director, leading the team.

The team brings new responsibilities to financeand has responsibility for sustainability disclosures impacting BlackRock at the corporate entity level whilst also establishing a control and governance framework and identifying and impact assessing upcoming regulations.

Key Responsibilities:

Maintaining compliance with entity level sustainability reporting requirements, including working with internal teams to draft reporting, establishing appropriate governance structures to obtain approval and sign off and creating and owning process documentationfor each regulation.
Performing readiness for upcoming sustainability reporting requirements, including monitoring SEC, ISSB and EFRAG advancements.
Partnering with Financial Controls Reporting / Internal Audit / External Auditors to build out controls' framework for sustainability reporting and implementing controls in AuditBoard
Preparing materials for presentation at key committees such as Corporate Sustainability Disclosure Committee, Board/Audit Committees, Risk/Regulatory oversight committees etc.
Preparing materials and participating in presentations to further educate internal stakeholders on the mandatory sustainability reporting agenda and value prospect of team
Main contact for internal and external audit for BlackRock corporate sustainability mandatory reporting
Establishing robust 'auditready' support for corporate sustainability disclosures
Preparing team newsletter
Supporting stakeholder queries directed to the team
Contributing to team meetings and enhancing team governance
Other BAU activities, ad hoc tasks and project work as required

Development Value:

This position will allow the individual to become involved in a new and exciting area of corporate reporting with excellent opportunities for expanding their network out with finance.

Corporate Sustainability Reporting is a small team so there will be manyopportunities to get involved in all aspects of the team's output.

The role will also offer insight into Green House Gas reporting protocols and how sustainability is impacting BlackRock beyond finance.

Experience/Competencies:

As this is an emerging area of Corporate Reporting, some competencies are required whilst others would be advantageous but are not prohibitive to being successful in the role.

Required

Ability to adapt to changing priorities in a rapidly evolving reporting environment
Excellent PowerPoint skills and strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel/Office
Ability to clearly and confidently communicate in verbal and written form with colleagues of different levels.
Strong understanding of robust reporting controls including design and implementationAdvantageous
Experience in analyzing and impact assessing principlesbased standards/regulations
Prior experience/strong interest in sustainability reporting
Experience/understanding of Green House Gas protocol
Experience in reporting of nonfinancial data

Skills/Qualifications:

CA/ACA qualified or equivalent qualification required (desirable not essential)
7 years plus of accounting experience (Ideally Financial Services)
Organized and methodical, possessing attention to detail, good analytical skills and the ability to work to tight deadlines

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources tosupport your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock's current hybrid work model is designed to enable in-person connections and collaboration that is core to our culture, while supporting increased flexibility for all employees.

In line with local health guidance and regulations, employees are requiredto work at least 3 days in the office each week, with the flexibility to work from home up to 2 days a week.