Description
Job Title: Reporting & Controls Manager - Group Sustainable Business
Salary: £59,850 - £66,500
Location: Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds
Hours: Full Time
Working Pattern: Our working style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this Opportunity
This is an opportunity to bring your experience in sustainability reporting, frameworks, governance and controls to Lloyds Banking Group where you’ll play a key role in delivering our sustainability ambitions.
You’ll be part of the Group Sustainable Business team which sits at the centre of the Group and plays an important role in enabling Lloyds Banking Group’s purpose ambitions and activities which are critical to the delivery of the Group’s strategy and helping Britain Prosper. These include defining the ambitions and enablement actions across key areas such as affordable homes, financial empowerment, regional development, transition to net zero and protecting nature.
As Manager, Reporting and Controls in Group Sustainable Business you’ll be:
1. Contributing to, and assisting to shape aspects of the Group’s sustainability reporting working with relevant key stakeholders across the Group
2. Keeping up to date on the latest sustainability developments, trends, opinions and legislation to support the Group in ensuring it is alignment with the latest market developments
3. Supporting the management of relevant internal reporting requirements including sustainability performance measurement metrics
4. Supporting the coordination of internal governance processes and the production of papers for Group executive and Board level governance forums
5. Assisting in the development of a Group double materiality process within the aligned with, and to support the requirements of incoming reporting standards and market expectations
6. Working collaboratively with internal partners in the Finance, Audit, Business Units and Risk teams regularly to support the delivery of reports, governance packs, and key deliverables
7. Supporting the GSB team controls environment, working in collaboration with Risk partners helping to manage key risks across business and operational activities within the team remit
8. Supporting the Group to continue to embed its principles of doing business in a responsible, sustainable and inclusive way
Why Lloyds Banking Group?
From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. We are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together we can grow with purpose.
What you’ll need:
We’re looking for a driven individual with experience in sustainability reporting, governance, frameworks and controls who would like to take their career to the next stage. Is this you? If so, we’d love to hear from you.
Key knowledge and skills that we are looking for:
9. A strong technical understanding and experience of corporate sustainability, with a broad understanding of the environmental, social and governance issues that impact the financial sector
10. Knowledge and experience of incoming, and current, voluntary and mandatory ESG standards such as ISSB, CSRD, CSDDD, UNGP’s, TCFD, TISFD, The Equator Principles, GRI and SASB, and the ability to translate the impacts of these frameworks on the Group
11. The ability to review and interpret sustainability KPI’s and performance, and translate insights from raw data into proof points for strategic progress and narrative
12. Experience in building and deploying the use of measurement tools such as performance scorecards
13. Knowledge and experience of setting, building and reviewing sustainability risks and controls
14. Strong working knowledge and experience in working with leading external bodies such as UNGC, IFRS, EU EFRAG, and UNEP-FI. An established relationship with key bodies is considered a plus
15. Exceptional and demonstratable experience in stakeholder engagement, relationship building and collaboration
16. A focus on detail and presentation standards
17. The ability to talk about, and translate business concepts, ideas or facts to communicate information in a compelling and memorable way
18. A keenness to innovate to go faster by taking responsibility for challenging existing processes; being an early adopter of change and viewing advancements in technology as opportunities to help us deliver for our internal and external stakeholders
19. The ability to inspire others by building rapport and gaining commitment through strong personal identity. Embracing diverse viewpoints; demonstrated in the way you do business and collaborate with others.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
20. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
21. An annual performance-related bonus
22. Share schemes including free shares
23. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
24. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
25. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
If you’re excited about being part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.