Skyscanner

Finance Manager, Carbon Reporting

Posted 4 Days Ago

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London, Greater London, England

Mid level

Travel

The Role

The Finance Manager, Carbon Reporting will lead sustainability efforts by collaborating with finance teams to develop automated reporting, manage budgets, generate financial insights, and ensure compliance with sustainability regulations. Key responsibilities include forecasting, reporting on performance, and supporting carbon accounting strategies.

Summary Generated by Built In

As a Finance Manager, Carbon Reporting, you will play a crucial role in our sustainability journey, working alongside our world-class Sustainability and Finance teams. This is an ambitious role where your contributions will be vital in crafting our future and ensuring our sustainability commitments are met flawlessly.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate across Sustainability and Finance teams to ensure we stay on track to reach our Net Zero goals.
Develop and automate our Sustainability reporting and forecasts, including carbon footprint measurement, GHG protocol requirements, and SBTi metrics.
Manage Sustainability forecasts and budgets, ensuring alignment with our external Net Zero commitments.
Generate financial models and insights to support sustainability-related decision-making and assess climate-related risks and opportunities for the business.
Contribute to materiality assessments and manage metrics to guide decision-making and align our vision with operational measurements.
Support trade-off decisions across spending and returns, contributing to Skyscanner's Sustainability strategy on carbon offsetting and corporate travel policy.
Coordinate the budget and forecasting process for Sustainability, incorporating carbon accounting to strategize asset depreciation and departmental carbon budgets.
Report on performance versus budget/forecast and integrate sustainability modeling into financial statements and planning processes.
Establish weekly/monthly review processes to monitor the performance of key business units against departmental carbon budgets.
Develop connections with essential partners, challenge and influence priority areas to improve impact.
Stay updated on relevant legislation and standard methodologies to ensure compliance with international regulatory reporting obligations for Sustainability (SECR, ESOS, CRFD, and CSRD), in collaboration with Legal.
Support the business in achieving our sustainability traveller goals.

Skills and Qualifications

Qualified (ACCA, CA, CIMA, or ICAS) or relevant financial experience.
Previous experience in Finance Business Partnering/financial modeling is preferable but not necessary.
Outstanding ability to distill and synthesize information.
Comfortable with ambiguity, excelling in bringing clarity and structure.
Proven experience in building and managing strong collaborator relationships.
Highly proficient in Excel and PowerPoint.
A committed and productive approach.
Previous experience or knowledge of carbon management and sustainability reporting (SBTi, GHG Protocol, SECR, ESOS, CRFD)
Strong analytical skills with a data-driven approach to problem-solving and opportunity identification.
Excellent presentation skills with the ability to convey complex topics clearly and provide actionable recommendations.
Commercial awareness with an understanding of business models and key performance drivers.

This role presents an outstanding chance to work closely with diverse business teams, experiencing a wide range of operational activities. Your expertise will be essential in achieving Skyscanner's sustainability goals.