External Reporting – Sustainability Disclosures Level – Vice President

Job Description

External Reporting – Sustainability Disclosures

JR037583 – Glasgow

This Vice President position within our Corporate Controllers, Reporting & Accounting Job Family is responsible for the accuracy and control of the Firm’s books and records to produce consolidated firm, segment and legal entity financial statements. It includes development, management and oversight of financial accounting & reporting systems, database management, capital and liquidity reporting, and external reporting functions. The team prepares external reporting disclosures in accordance with US GAAP and IFRS, and components of Financial Regulatory reporting to regulators including the Bundesbank and European Banking Authority. It is also expanding to establish production ownership of Sustainability Disclosures and related regulatory templates for European legal entities. The team works closely with Finance, Sustainability Office, Risk, Legal and Corporate Services.

What you’ll do:

• Sustainability Disclosure deliverables for European legal entities, ensuring controlled processes, clear ownership, and delivery to agreed timelines and quality standards for hand off to Finance Legal Entity Controllers.
• Pillar 3 ESG templates, including coordinating inputs, performing review and validation checks, and maintaining supporting documentation and evidence.
• EU Taxonomy templates, ensuring consistent methodology application, appropriate controls over source data, and alignment with internal governance expectations.
• Short Term Exercise (STE) templates, managing the production timetable and coordinating inputs and review across Finance, Risk and other key stakeholders.
• Ad hoc regulatory submissions, including delivery within required timeframes.
• Reconciliation of lending data used in the MS legal entity Physical Intensity metric, to ensure this is fit for purpose.
• Establishing and maintaining a robust governance, documentation and controls framework for disclosures production (including procedures, checklists, evidence packs, issue logs and approvals).
• Coordinating internal and external assurance activity (e.g., audit requests and independent reviews), tracking remediation actions through to closure, and driving continuous improvement across the production process.
• Presenting disclosures and analytics to members of Finance Senior Management for due diligence before filing externally.
• Ultimately managing staff within the Sustainability Disclosures team, providing support and guidance to ensure delivery against reporting timetables.

What you’ll bring:

• Qualified CA/CPA/ACCA (or equivalent experience) with strong analytical and drafting skills and a high attention to detail.
• A strong financial controller background and experience running controlled production processes for regulatory reporting and/or external disclosures.
• Experience designing or operating risk and control frameworks, including documentation standards and governance processes.
• Strong stakeholder management and the ability to influence across functions to obtain timely inputs and resolve issues.
• Experience of working with large datasets.
• Self motivated and able to demonstrate initiative and problem solving abilities.
• Strong work ethic with an ability to take responsibility for completing tasks and working to deadlines.
• Ability to balance and effectively prioritise multiple issues.
• Experience of managing people, delegating tasks, providing career guidance and developmental feedback.

Skills that will help you in the role – experience with:

• Sustainability related regulatory reporting and templates (e.g., Pillar 3 ESG templates, EU Taxonomy templates, stress test / Short Term Exercise templates) and associated governance expectations.
• Data lineage, data quality controls, and maintaining procedures and documentation to support repeatable, auditable production of metrics and templates.
• Coordinating assurance activity, remediation plans and evidence packs across first/second/third line teams.
• Driving process improvements and implementing new reporting requirements.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents. Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.