Sustainability Reporting and Compliance Manager

🌱 Sustainability Reporting and Compliance Manager

📍 Finsbury Park, London
🏢 WPS
🌿 Sustainability

🌍 Ready to take the lead on sustainability reporting?

We're looking for an experienced Sustainability Reporting and Compliance Manager to join our WPS business in Finsbury Park and take ownership of our corporate sustainability reporting framework.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who combines strong technical sustainability knowledge with excellent communication and influencing skills. You'll play a key role in ensuring WPS meets its sustainability reporting obligations, while helping our senior leaders understand our performance, reporting risks and the changing regulatory landscape.

You'll be our principal internal technical lead for sustainability reporting, working closely with the Sustainability Director, Finance Director, Executive Committee and Board, as well as teams across the wider business.

🌱 What will you be doing?

You'll take ownership of the sustainability reporting cycle across WPS, including:

📊 Leading and managing our sustainability reporting framework, calendar and governance processes

🌍 Coordinating sustainability disclosures for our Annual Report and Accounts

📑 Leading the delivery of applicable reporting requirements, including SECR, climate-related financial disclosures and emerging requirements

✅ Establishing robust reporting controls, maintaining clear audit trails and coordinating external assurance

🤝 Bringing together colleagues across Sustainability, Finance, Procurement, Fleet, Property, Operations, HR, Social Value and IT to ensure accurate and timely reporting

💬 Translating complex regulatory requirements into clear, practical actions for the business

👥 Providing technical advice and insight to senior leaders, including the Executive Committee and Board

💷 Managing the agreed budget for reporting systems, specialist technical advice and external assurance

🔎 Keeping ahead of changes in sustainability reporting requirements and helping WPS understand and prepare for what's coming next

This role won't initially have direct reports, but you'll have plenty of opportunity to lead through influence, coordinating colleagues and sustainability data owners from across WPS.

⭐ What are we looking for?

We're looking for someone who has a strong track record within corporate sustainability or environmental reporting and is comfortable operating in a complex, cross-functional environment.

You'll ideally bring:

✅ Strong technical knowledge of UK corporate sustainability and environmental reporting requirements

✅ Experience managing the complete sustainability reporting cycle, from data collection and review through to assurance, approval and publication

✅ Experience preparing or coordinating sustainability disclosures for an Annual Report and Accounts

✅ Experience establishing reporting controls, audit trails and working with external auditors or assurance providers

✅ Strong influencing and stakeholder-management skills, including communicating with senior and Board-level audiences

✅ Degree-level education

🚀 Why this role?

This is an opportunity to take real ownership of a key area for WPS.

You'll have the chance to shape how we approach sustainability reporting, build strong reporting processes and controls, and work with colleagues right across the business. Most importantly, you'll help turn complex sustainability data and regulation into clear, meaningful information that supports informed decision-making at the highest levels of WPS.

🌟 Ready for your next challenge?

If you're passionate about sustainability, confident navigating an evolving reporting landscape and enjoy bringing people together to deliver accurate, meaningful results, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and take the next step in your career with WPS!

Our commitments:  

WPS is proud to be an employer where anyone can thrive, and we welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds.  We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every requirement, as we value transferable skills and assess all applications fairly.

We don't discriminate based on a criminal record; all applications are reviewed on an individual basis against the requirements of the role. Some roles may require additional checks, due to the nature of the work.  As a Disability Confident Leader, we offer an interview to applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role and opt in to the Disability Confident scheme.  Reasonable adjustments are available, please contact us at wpsrecruitment@wates.co.uk