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We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, ESG Regulatory Programs to join our Sustainability Hub. The Vice President will operate as a core driver and manager across disclosure production, regulatory implementation, and cross-functional governance – bridging day-to-day execution with strategic oversight. This role is located in London or Manchester.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the end-to-end production of ESG regulatory disclosures across group and legal entities, ensuring alignment with BNY policies, controls, and procedures.
- Drive enterprise-wide implementation of ESG regulatory requirements (e.g., SEC climate rules, CSRD, EU Taxonomy, ISSB) and centrally coordinate legal entity-level ESG regulatory implementation.
- Develop and maintain an entity-by-entity disclosure inventory and requirements traceability matrix, while enhancing documentation protocols, including evidence retention and change management.
- Partner cross-functionally to scope ESG regulatory requirements and embed them across the three lines of defense.
- Run enterprise/legal entity governance routines: steering meetings, issue/risk logs, decision memos, and escalation paths to Controllership and Risk committees; prepare board/committee materials where required.
- Monitor evolving regulatory regimes and supervisory expectations, conduct impact assessments and gap analyses specific to legal entities and drive implementation roadmaps to closure
- Produce management-ready documentation: requirements traceability, control walkthroughs, testing results, remediation plans, and attestation packages for regulatory filings and audits
- Support matrixed reviews for enterprise-level and legal-entity disclosures: drive consistency of language, appropriate disclosure levels, and heightened sensitivity to regulatory and cross-market considerations
Qualifications:
- Experience in financial services with exposure to ESG, sustainability, compliance, risk/control functions, or related field; bachelor’s degree required
- Hands-on experience driving regulatory implementations and/or reporting is a must
- Strong understanding of ESG reporting standards and disclosure requirements, including familiary in regulatory regimes and voluntary frameworks (e.g., TCFD, ISSB)
- Proven success in cross-functional, matrixed project management —balancing speed, accuracy, and stakeholder alignment under regulatory timelines
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate technical topics into clear, decision-ready materials for senior stakeholders; adept at guiding peers and partners through evolving requirements
- Meticulous attention to detail, strong time management, and a solutions-oriented approach to problem solving
- Technical/quantitative proficiency excel word power point. Workiva is a plus
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