Associate, Corporate Sustainability Reporting

1 week ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom BlackRock Full time

Description

About this role

Business Unit Overview:
BlackRock Finance and Strategy consists of professionals in disciplines such as Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Treasury, Tax, Financial Controls, Sourcing and Vendor Management, Finance Platform Support, Controllers, Strategy, and Corporate Development. This role forms part of the Edinburgh based Controllers Group and sits within the Global Corporate Sustainability Controllers (GCSC) team. GCSC is a new team with responsibility for both voluntary and mandatory sustainability reporting impacting BlackRock’s corporate entities, as well as collation and ownership of Blackrock’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory.

This 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 also offers excellent opportunities to interact with a broad array of BlackRock teams, including: the Global Public Policy Group, BlackRock Transformation Office, Risk and Quantitative Analysis, Legal and Compliance, Governance, and Financial & Prudential Reporting, as well as the other global Finance teams.

Position Description:
An accountant / sustainability specialist is required to join the GCSC team based in Edinburgh, reporting into the mandatory sustainability reporting VP. GCSCs comprises 5 members of staff, including the Director, leading the team and has ownership of sustainability disclosures impacting BlackRock at the corporate entity level, including establishing a control and governance framework and identifying and impact assessing emerging and evolving regulations in the sustainability space.

Key Responsibilities:

- Maintaining compliance with entity level sustainability reporting requirements, including working with internal teams to draft this reporting, establishing appropriate governance structures to obtain approval and sign off and creating and owning process documentation for each regulation.
- Engaging with teams internally to identify and impact assess new / evolving regulatory requirements.
- Performing readiness for upcoming sustainability reporting requirements.
- Partnering with Financial Controls Reporting / Internal Audit / External Auditors to build out a control 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.
- Liaising with internal and external audit for BlackRock corporate sustainability mandatory reporting.
- Establishing robust ‘audit-ready’ support for corporate sustainability disclosures.
- Supporting the preparation of the 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 and beyond Finance. GCSC is a small team so there will be many opportunities 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**:

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

Competencies:
As this is an emerging area of corporate reporting, some competencies are required whilst others are desirable but not essential.

Required:

- Ability to adapt to changing priorities in a rapidly evolving reporting environment.
- Excellent powerpoint skills and strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel/Office.
- Experience in analysing and impact assessing principles-based standards/regulations.
- Experience of report writing of a standard suitable for external publication.
- 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 implementation.
- Highly organized and methodical with the ability to manage multiple deliverables.

Desirable:

- Experience / strong interest in sustainability reporting.
- Experience / understanding of Green House Gas protocol.
- Experience in reporting of non-financial data.

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