8120 - Finance Manager - ESG

Job title: Finance Manager - ESG

Location: Welwyn Garden City

Duration: 12 months initially

Adecco is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.

The role:

This is a project-based role, supporting our readiness for new regulation, there will be two core components working on mapping the end-to-end processes for multiple ESG KPIs and data points. The role will have exposure to many different ESG and Finance areas, such as: Environment, Sustainability, People and Communities teams, Investor Relations, Group Communications, Treasury and Finance Controls.

Responsibilities:

Partnering with the business to review and document the end-to-end the ESG core processes for capturing, calculating, producing and reporting ESG-related information (KPIs and other data) across different business units.

Identifying and assessing reporting risks and likely sources of misstatement for key ESG processes, and the controls in place to mitigate those risks.

Identifying potential control gaps, discuss them with the business and agreeing remedial actions.

Testing the design and the operation of the controls, and of the remediated control gaps, according to the testing methodology and report on the results

Promoting process and control standardisation and efficiency across business units.

Liaising with internal and external auditors on queries and requests regarding the processes reviewed by the role.

Working closely with the Finance Change and technology team who will use your work as the basis for improving or automating the production of ESG reporting.

Requirements:

Core understanding of business processes and associated risks and controls.

Practical experience of internal controls (either in control design, implementation and testing).

Knowledge of ESG issues: key topics, regulatory landscape, standards, etc.

Knowledge of Reporting and Corporate Governance.

Strong communication skills to include report writing, presentation, influencing and relational skills.

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.