Head of Sustainability and Climate Reporting

London, England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

(Hybrid)

Job Type:Permanent

Location:The role is hybrid, whereby the role holder can take advantage of the Group’s flexible working arrangements with a mix of working remotely, at home and working in an office environment. The teams are located in Birmingham, Edinburgh and Telford offices.

Flexible working
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All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.

Closing Date:22 February 2026

Salary and benefits:£120,000 - £150,000 plus an indicative bonus range of 30- 60% private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re Phoenix Group,we’re a long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, Sun Life, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us.

We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’renot done yet.

You will be responsible for supporting the Entity Reporting & Group Reporting LT to deliver the finance vision and successfully transition to a future state team which is efficient, structured, and accountable. You will work directly with the Director of Entity & Group Reporting to the finance strategy on sustainability reporting.

Key objectives for the individual in this role will be:

• Drive forward the development of the sustainability reporting strategy within finance and be a primary point of contact, providing SME advice and insight, and ensuring Finance is ready for emerging regulatory and internal sustainability reporting requirements.
• Lead in the transfer of ownership of regulatory-driven ESG disclosures within financial statements from the Group Sustainability Team, the supporting internal control environment, and oversight of ESG assurance.
• Drive, leadand shape the development of the finance sustainability TOM, Gap analysis & implementation plan for a sustainability control framework.
• Lead the provision of controlled sustainability reporting for entities in scope of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (“TCFD”) reporting requirements.
• Management of senior stakeholders to brief on pertinent matters related to the group's sustainability and climate reporting
• Entity board and other governance reporting
• Engagement with internal and external audit, and timely closure of management actions
• Drive the production of high quality BAU technical papers and local technical change for sustainability reporting
• Accountable for the control framework operating over the sustainability reporting, including controls assessment, risk management and reporting
• Ownership for change (including regulatory change) and local process improvements, ensuring change is understood, appropriately tested and implemented safely.
• Operational management of resources to ensure deliveries of the team are met.

• Strong technical knowledge of sustainability reporting requirements in a financial services context, under a range of mandatory and voluntary frameworks (such as TCFD), reporting standards (IFRS S1/S2) and other regulations including UK SRS , ISSB and IFRS S3/S4, and CSRD[1]and SDR.
• Attention to detail to help us ensure our data and reporting can be validated to the external market and both internal and external auditors.
• The ability to deliver in high pressure environment whilst maintaining quality, resilience, and outcome focus. Regularly working to defined and tight timescales whilst maintaining professional standards.
• Ability to influence and challenge thinking at a senior level faced with a range of conflicting priorities and opinions, using exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to…