Financial Services Sustainability Manager

Job Role: Financial Services Sustainability Manager

Location: London 

Career Level: Manager 

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge. 

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognised worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.  

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO 

As a team: 

Accenture Sustainability Services shapes our clients' future, combining a deep understanding of social and environmental challenges, technology and analytics, and business insight to create new growth opportunities, address risk and build competitive advantage through sustainable business.

Within Financial Services, we partner with leading asset managers, banks, insurers, and private equity firms as they navigate the transition to net zero while managing evolving regulatory requirements and stakeholder expectations. Our clients are fundamentally transforming their business models, investment strategies, risk frameworks, and finance functions. This includes integrating climate & nature risk into decision-making, developing credible transition plans, measuring operational and financed emissions, impacts & dependencies, and leveraging technology including AI to drive sustainable finance at scale.

Our work spans sustainability transformation, climate, nature and wider ESG risk integration, sustainable finance structuring, ESG data, AI and platforms, ESG reporting and analytics, and increasingly sits at the intersection with Chief Strategy, Chief Finance, Chief Risk and Chief People Officers’ and CRO initiatives around enterprise risk management, regulatory compliance, financial reporting, people & change and value creation. Accenture's unique position at the intersection of sustainability, business strategy, finance, risk and technology means that financial services clients increasingly turn to us for help with their most critical ESG and climate transformation challenges.

As part of our wider Accenture Strategy & Consulting practice, you'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

If you're looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you.

In our team you will learn to: 

• Develop and lead high performing small – medium sized Financial Services Sustainability teams, leading by example, actively mentoring others and contributing to performance management and recruitment activities
• Use your judgment to solve complex, ambiguous client business, sustainability, risk and financial reporting problems, bringing structure and rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques; acting and taking decisions with little day-to-day oversight
• Develop knowledge of key sustainability trends, regulatory developments, and risk frameworks and how they impact financial services markets, investment performance, enterprise value and corporate strategy in order to identify key value opportunities for clients
• Build expertise across sustainability, strategy, risk, people& change and finance function disciplines, supporting integrated solutions that span ESG strategy, risk management, regulatory reporting, people & change and value creation
• Develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships with C-suite executives, Heads of Sustainability, CFOs, CROs, CHROs and Investment Committees
• Support Accenture's business (including cost management, contract management) with discipline, rigor and integrity
• Support business development activities including opportunity identification/qualification and proposal development/presentation, leveraging your network and industry expertise
• Support practice/community building efforts such as developing offerings, assets, capabilities, and relevant thought leadership across sustainability, strategy, finance, risk and people & change domains

In this role you will: