Senior Sustainability Reporting Manager

at  abrdn

Job Description
abrdn plc is one of the world’s largest investment companies, built on a long-standing culture of caring about the future and making a positive impact. Together, we invest for a better future. We do this to make a difference in the lives of our clients, customers, employees, society, and shareholders. Our strategy is to build a vibrant, value-creating, purpose-led organisation, with the current and future needs of our stakeholders at the heart of all we do.
Aligned with these ambitions, we are establishing a Sustainability Reporting team within our Finance function. The team will lead on the delivery of critical sustainability reporting for the group, supporting strategic delivery and the needs of our stakeholders.
About the Finance Function
The Finance function at abrdn, led by the Chief Financial Officer, is structured around specialist centralised teams and business-focused commercial teams. The newly created Sustainability Reporting team will sit within our External Reporting team, responsible for financial and non-financial reporting, under the leadership of the Group Financial Controller.
Initially, the team will focus on reporting linked to our Annual Report and Accounts, as well as our Sustainability and TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures) report. Over time, the remit will expand to incorporate a wide range of reporting deliverables as the sustainability landscape evolves, including CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive), ISSB (International Sustainability Standards Board) S1/S2, and the UK Green Taxonomy.
About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Sustainability Reporting Production Manager to join our team. You will lead day-to-day reporting production efforts and play a key role in coordinating resources across the business to ensure the safe and secure delivery of our external sustainability reporting disclosures.

Key Responsibilities

• Production Planning & Delivery Management: Oversee the planning, coordination, and execution of sustainability reporting, ensuring all deliverables are met with high quality and on time.
• Resource Coordination: Manage resources across the business to support sustainability reporting efforts.
• Stakeholder Management: Navigate a complex stakeholder landscape, ensuring clear communication and collaboration.
• Data Repository Management: Build and maintain a central sustainability reporting data repository.
• Production Control: End-to-end management of the production control environment, including the design and management of production processes and tools.
• ESG Ratings Management: Oversee and manage ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) ratings related to production.
• Assurance & Governance: Handle production-related assurance matters and manage governance reporting.

Skills & Capabilities

To be successful in this role, you will possess the following skills and capabilities:

• Qualified Accountant
• Experience in handling regulatory and/or reporting change.
• Awareness and understanding of sustainability reporting requirements and developments.
• Capable of leading across business-as-usual and project initiatives
• Assurance handling experience
• Experience in the Asset Management sector preferable

Our Benefits
At abrdn, we offer more than just a salary. We provide an environment where you can learn, get involved, and be supported. Our rewards include 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare, and a range of flexible benefits. You can read more about our benefits here.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. We are committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued. We define diversity in its broadest sense and support a culture of meritocracy, fairness, and transparency. If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability, please let us know as part of your application, and we will support you throughout the process.
If you are passionate about sustainability and high-quality reporting, and ready to take on this exciting challenge, we encourage you to apply.
We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.
If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist

Key Responsibilities

• Production Planning & Delivery Management: Oversee the planning, coordination, and execution of sustainability reporting, ensuring all deliverables are met with high quality and on time.
• Resource Coordination: Manage resources across the business to support sustainability reporting efforts.
• Stakeholder Management: Navigate a complex stakeholder landscape, ensuring clear communication and collaboration.
• Data Repository Management: Build and maintain a central sustainability reporting data repository.
• Production Control: End-to-end management of the production control environment, including the design and management of production processes and tools.
• ESG Ratings Management: Oversee and manage ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) ratings related to production.
• Assurance & Governance: Handle production-related assurance matters and manage governance reporting

To be successful in this role, you will possess the following skills and capabilities:

• Qualified Accountant
• Experience in handling regulatory and/or reporting change.
• Awareness and understanding of sustainability reporting requirements and developments.
• Capable of leading across business-as-usual and project initiatives
• Assurance handling experience
• Experience in the Asset Management sector preferabl