External Reporting – Sustainability Disclosures
Location: Glasgow
Vice President position within our Corporate Controllers, Reporting & Accounting Job Family. Responsible for accuracy and control of the Firm’s books and records to produce consolidated financial statements, oversee financial accounting & reporting systems, and manage capital and liquidity reporting and external reporting functions.
Responsibilities
* Sustainability Disclosure deliverables for European legal entities, ensuring controlled processes, clear ownership, and delivery to agreed timelines and quality standards for hand‑off to Finance Legal Entity Controllers.
* Pillar 3 ESG templates: coordinating inputs, performing review and validation checks, and maintaining supporting documentation and evidence.
* EU Taxonomy templates: ensuring consistent methodology application, appropriate controls over source data, and alignment with internal governance expectations.
* Short Term Exercise (STE) templates: managing the production timetable and coordinating inputs and review across Finance, Risk and other key stakeholders.
* Ad hoc regulatory submissions, including delivery within required timeframes.
* Reconciliation of lending data used in the MS legal entity Physical Intensity metric to ensure it is fit for purpose.
* Establishing and maintaining a robust governance, documentation and controls framework for disclosures production (procedures, checklists, evidence packs, issue logs and approvals).
* Coordinating internal and external assurance activity, tracking remediation actions through to closure and driving continuous improvement across the production process.
* Presenting disclosures and analytics to members of Finance Senior Management for due diligence before filing externally.
* Managing staff within the Sustainability Disclosures team, providing support and guidance to ensure delivery against reporting timetables.
Qualifications
* Qualified CA/CPA/ACCA (or equivalent) with strong analytical and drafting skills and high attention to detail.
* Strong financial controller background and experience running controlled production processes for regulatory reporting and/or external disclosures.
* Experience designing or operating risk and control frameworks, including documentation standards and governance processes.
* Demonstrated stakeholder management and influence across functions (Finance, Sustainability, Risk, Legal and Corporate Services).
* Experience working with large datasets.
* Self‑motivated with initiative and problem‑solving abilities.
* Strong work ethic and ability to meet deadlines.
* Ability to prioritise multiple issues effectively.
* Experience managing people, delegating tasks, and providing career guidance and developmental feedback.
* Experience with sustainability‑related regulatory reporting and templates (Pillar 3 ESG, EU Taxonomy, stress test/STE templates) and governance expectations.
* Data lineage, data quality controls, and maintaining procedures and documentation to support repeatable, auditable production.
* Coordinating assurance activity, remediation plans and evidence packs across first/second/third line teams.
* Driving process improvements and implementing new reporting requirements.
Additional Information
Certification requirement: If this role is deemed a Certified role, the holder may need to maintain mandatory regulatory qualifications or meet internal company benchmarks.
Flexible work: Morgan Stanley empowers employees to have greater freedom of choice through flexible working arrangements.
Morgan Stanley is an equal‑opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents. For more information, visit https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.
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