Head of Reporting & Controls - ESG

Job Title: Head of Reporting and Controls - ESG

Salary: £124,653 - £146,650

Location: London

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 hub sites.

About this Opportunity

This is an opportunity to bring your leadership experience and expertise in ESG reporting and governance to Lloyds Banking Group where you’ll play a key role in delivering our sustainability ambitions!

As the Head of Reporting and Controls you'll lead a team of reporting and governance specialists that support the delivery of the Group’s internal and external Environmental, Social and Governance reporting activities ensuring appropriate measurement assurance, processes and controls. This includes relevant governance activity.

You’ll be part of the Group Sustainable Business team which sits at the centre of Lloyds Banking 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 Head of Reporting and Controls, you’ll be:

• Providing guidance to the Group and support to the Group Finance Sustainability reporting team on the evolving ESG frameworks, voluntary standards and regulatory requirements and recommend and mobilise an internal approach to ensure continued compliance where relevant and appropriate

• Collaborating with partners across the Group on mandatory updates which include the annual report and accounts, the Group Sustainability report, responses to external and internal queries on Modern Slavery and Human Rights and annual updates on the implementation of voluntary frameworks such as Principles for Responsible Banking, The Equator Principles, and UN Global Compact

• Owning the approach to ensuring the Group’s agreed principles of doing business in a responsible, sustainable and inclusive way, with reference to the Code of Ethics and Responsibility, are embedded in ways of working and governance processes across the business

• Responsible for the GSB team controls environment, working in collaboration with Risk partners ensuring a fit-for-purpose control framework to manage key risks across business and operational activities within the team remit

• Leading the governance processes related to Group Sustainable Business activity, ensuring committee integrity and compliance with Committee Terms of Reference

• Lead, empower and develop colleagues to help build a high-performing team, encouraging and embedding new, agile and innovative practices to improve process effectiveness, efficiency, accuracy and pace

• Translating emerging and existing external sustainability requirements and determining the impact on the Group’s business models and business areas.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too

What you’ll need:

We’re looking for a strong leader with a background in ESG, sustainability reporting and controls. If this is you, we’d like to hear from you.

Specifically we're looking for someone that:

• Has a deep understanding of sustainability frameworks, the global regulatory landscape and mandated sustainability requirements of financial services organisations in relation to ESG and how it may impact a financial services company

• Experienced in monitoring and reporting performance against ESG strategies and standards, including carbon disclosure, social key performance indicators, and responsible investments. Ability to translate insights from raw data into evidence for strategic storytelling and progress measurement.

• Objectively defines and resolves a matter, improvement or situation that is difficult or undesirable. Uses information analysis and scenario comparison, applying logic, prioritisation and creative thinking, to formulate judgments and solutions that lead to effective outcomes

• A track record of identifying, understanding and successfully leading senior level relationships with individuals or groups who have a vested interest in the outcome

• A strong network with leading external bodies such as UNGC, ISSB, EU EFRAG, WEF, and UNEP-FI.

It would also be beneficial to have experience in:

• Coaching to go faster by demonstrating dedication to creating an environment that builds teams with skills aligned to strategy and creating new and better ways for to embed change at pace

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• 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!