ESG Reporting Manager - Reading, Berkshire
2 days ago
Hook End
Contract: PermanentSalary: Competitive salary up to 90,000 per annum, depending on experienceThe ESG Reporting Manager will lead the production, governance and continuous improvement of Thames Waters ESGrelated reports, disclosures, and data submissions. This includes responsibility for our Annual Sustainability Report, climaterelated disclosures (e.g., TCFD and UK Adaptation Reporting Power), the UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (SRS), UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reporting, and other ESGrelated outputs. The role ensures Thames Water meets evolving external sustainability disclosure requirements, supports credible, transparent communication of our progress, promotes accurate ESG scoring by ratings agencies, and embeds enhanced ESG reporting capabilities across the organisation. It will provide strategic oversight of enterprisewide ESG performance, ensuring that reporting insights directly inform business planning, investment decisions and longterm risk management. To be successful, the role requires strong analytical capability, excellent stakeholder engagement, effective coordination across technical and corporate teams, a proactive understanding of external ESG standards, and the ability to adopt new ways of working to maximise impact and value. What youll be doing as an ESG Reporting Manager • Own the delivery of all ESG and sustainabilityrelated reports and disclosures, ensuring accuracy, clarity and timeliness, • Lead production of the Annual Sustainability Report and key external submissions (e.g., UK SRS, TCFD, UK Adaptation Reporting Power, UN SDGs, ESG data packs)., • Coordinate data & narrative collection, validation, and assurance across the business, ensuring clear audit trails and robust governance, • Work with rating agencies to ensure that Thames ESG position is correctly represented in their assessment and to understand what activities we can implement to improve our scores, • Maintain performance against UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS S1 & S2) reporting architecture & controls, • Provide expertise and support on a wide range of departmental workstreams, including policy updates, climate change reporting, external sustainability disclosures, and broader reporting obligations, • Contribute to crossfunctional initiatives that raise the quality, consistency, and integration of ESG information across the organisation, • Maintain strong working knowledge of evolving sustainability standards, frameworks, and regulatory expectations, • Horizonscan across UK and global ESG regulatory developments (e.g., ISSB, UK Green Taxonomy, SRS, government climate reporting requirements), • Advise senior leaders on emerging risks, opportunities, and compliance requirements, • Contribute to longterm planning for ESG reporting and assurance requirements for future AMP periods, • Coach and support the development of line 1 and line 2 assurance for ESG processes, promoting good governance and riskbased approaches, • Act as a senior ambassador for Thames Water on ESG matters, representing the organisation with regulators, investors and external stakeholders to strengthen credibility and influence sector standards, • Monitor regulatory developments and industry trends, assessing their impact on Thames Waters assurance and reporting obligations, • Experience in ESG/sustainability reporting, corporate reporting, nonfinancial disclosure or regulatory reporting in a complex organisation, • Experience interpreting and applying sustainability frameworks such as TCFD, SRS, ISSB, UK Government climate requirements, UN SDGs, • Leading or coordinating large reporting programmes or crossbusiness submissions with fixed deadlines, • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex ESG data and disclosure standards, • Ability to build effective working relationships across all levels of the organisation, • Demonstrates strategic influence, collaborative leadership and effective communication across diverse teams, • High integrity and a commitment to transparent, credible reporting, • Ability to manage multiple workstreams and deliver against immovable deadlines Additional skills and experiences would be great to have/bring:, • Experience in a regulated environment, utilities, infrastructure or public sector setting, • Experience working with external assurance providers or consultants, • Skilled in developing governance documentation, SLAs, reporting frameworks and policies Whats in it for you?, • Competitive salary up to 90,000 per annum, depending on experience, • Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays), • Car allowance, • Private medical healthcare, • Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets, • Generous Pension Scheme through AON