Job Description

We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Director, Sustainability Reporting to join our newly established Sustainability Reporting team within Group Finance. This is an exciting opportunity to shape how we report on climate and sustainability, ensuring our disclosures meet evolving global standards and regulatory requirements.

You will play a pivotal role in verifying the integrity of climate and carbon data, embedding best practice reporting frameworks, and engaging with regulators, auditors, and internal teams. As a trusted advisor, you’ll bring expertise, clarity, and leadership to a fast-developing area that is central to the Bank’s sustainability strategy and net zero ambitions.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure external reporting aligns with TCFD, ISSB, CSRD and other sustainability disclosure requirements.
• Partner with the Chief Sustainability Office to verify the integrity of climate, carbon and other sustainability data.
• Act as a technical expert on sustainability reporting, keeping the Group up to date with standards from ISSB, FRC, PRA, HKMA and other regulators.
• Benchmark best practices with peer banks and enhance the Group’s reporting standards.
• Address and resolve audit-related reporting issues and liaise with external auditors.
• Develop and maintain sustainability reporting policies, including taxonomies, and represent the Group in external industry forums.
• Support country teams to prepare local disclosures aligned with Group standards.
• Provide training, guidance and leadership to ensure strong technical capability across the team.
• Work closely with risk and control partners to embed robust governance and reporting frameworks.

Skills and Qualifications

Skills

• Strong expertise in financial and sustainability reporting frameworks, including IFRS and ISSB standards.
• Deep understanding of climate risk, net zero concepts, and sustainability disclosure requirements.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and explain technical concepts clearly.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to identify issues, propose solutions, and see them through to resolution.
• Proven ability to collaborate across diverse teams and geographies.
• Leadership mindset – able to mentor, guide, and build capability in others.

Qualifications

• Qualified Chartered Accountant (or equivalent) with a Financial Services background, ideally in banking.
• Minimum 8+ years post-qualification experience (PQE).
• Proven track record in financial reporting with knowledge of sustainability reporting requirements.
• Experience engaging with auditors and regulators on sustainability or financial disclosures.
• Strong technical knowledge in both financial and non-financial reporting frameworks.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.