ESG Reporting & Compliance Advisor

Vaco Memphis is assisting our prominent Memphis based client in their search for a Reporting and Compliance advisory role. The ideal candidate will have experience in eitheraudit, SOX, financial reporting, compliance, or ESG.Key attributes include:

Reporting to the Manager of ESG Reporting and Compliance, this position is responsible for executing on ESG disclosure enhancement plan and data management, aligned with global regulatory reporting requirements.

The incumbent will build strong relationships with global and cross-functional teams to ensure that the company's governance, strategies, policies, processes, controls and disclosures meet emerging compliance requirements and align with voluntary and regulatory reporting standards.

Supports the development of mandatory and voluntary disclosures, ensuring assurance requirements are met and disclosures are consistent across multiple disclosures. The incumbent will socialize the company approach to compliance and communicate necessary business change across its global audience.

Essential Functions

• Serves as a subject matter expert on global ESG reporting matters and ensure that reporting is aligned to the requirements of various regulations (including SEC, CSRD) and monitoring associated trends
• Assists in developing and preparing ESG disclosure reports
• Develops and updates the ESG accounting/reporting policies to be used by relevant stakeholders
• Partners cross-functionally with various stakeholders driving strategic initiatives related to ESG at the Company to ensure alignment between disclosures and corporate strategy and initiatives
• Collaborates with internal stakeholders to gather and analyze data needed for ESG reporting, including consolidated Company-wide ESG reporting, verify reported information, summarize content and distribute the relevant reports
• Assists in establishing a governance and control framework that complies with relevant ESG reporting standards and regulations, in order to ensure reporting integrity and assurance and comply with external assurance expectations
• Assist in implementing and maintaining an ESG internal control program, including understanding and mapping of processes, input assessment, data capture, identifying risks and controls, evaluating the processes for control readiness, executing the required changes, and communicating controls framework requirements and control best-practices
• Stays abreast of changes to relevant ESG reporting regulations, standards, and disclosure requirements, communicates information to relevant stakeholders, and implements required changes to accounting/reporting policies, practices, and processes

Minimum Education

• Bachelor's Degree/equivalent in business, accounting, finance, sustainability or a similar discipline. Advanced degree preferred.

Minimum Experience

• Five (5) years professional experience in SOX compliance, sustainability and ESG disclosures, financial reporting, or auditing and assurance or related area.

Knowledge, skills and abilities

• Demonstrated leadership and critical thinking abilities.

• Strong analytical, written, communication and program management skills

• Strong human relations, organizational/time management, and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to navigate uncertainty, work in a fast-paced environment and complete deliverables within established deadlines.

Preferred:

• Command of U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) along with financial & ESG compliance requirements (SEC, CA, CSRD, ISSB).

• Familiarity with mandatory and voluntary reporting regulations and standards, (ESRS/IFRS, GRI, SASB), frameworks (COSO, TCFD) and third-party ratings (ISS, S&P, Sustainalytics, MSCI).

• Financial or sustainability certifications (CPA, CFA, CSP, GRI, SASB)