Sustainability Data, Process & Reporting, Associate – Global Corporate Sustainability Controllers

About this role

Your Team

The Global Corporate Sustainability Controllers (GCSC) team is responsible for the governance, management, and reporting of sustainability data and metrics that support internal decision-making, external disclosures, assurance activities, and evolving reporting requirements across the firm. The team partners closely with stakeholders across Finance & Strategy, Corporate Sustainability, Technology, Operations, and other business functions to enhance the quality, consistency, governance, and accessibility of sustainability-related information. As sustainability reporting requirements continue to evolve, the team is focused on strengthening controls, improving data quality, increasing reporting efficiency, and building scalable processes that support future business needs. 

This role sits within the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting pillar of GCSC. The pillar is responsible for the development, governance, reporting, and continuous improvement of the firm's operational GHG inventory and associated reporting processes. The team plays an important role in delivering trusted emissions data, supporting assurance activities, and helping the firm monitor progress against its operational sustainability objectives.

Your Role and Impact

The Sustainability Data, Process & Reporting Associate will play a key role in both the delivery and modernization of the firm's operational GHG reporting processes.  This role combines participation in GHG inventory reporting, controls, and assurance activities with dedicated responsibility for identifying, designing, and implementing process improvements. The successful candidate will help improve how sustainability data is collected, managed, validated, and reported while supporting the team's efforts to enhance reporting efficiency, scalability, timeliness, and data quality.

The role provides a unique opportunity to apply data analysis, process optimization, automation, and technology-enabled problem solving within a rapidly evolving sustainability reporting environment. Working closely with business and technology stakeholders, the individual will help challenge existing ways of working, identify opportunities for improvement, and support the development of more efficient and scalable reporting capabilities.

Your Responsibilities

• Support the collection, validation, reconciliation, and consolidation of data used in the operational GHG inventory and related sustainability reporting activities.
• Support reporting, controls, documentation, audit readiness, and assurance activities to help ensure the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of reported information.
• Develop a detailed understanding of existing sustainability reporting processes, data flows, systems, operational dependencies, and control frameworks.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting efficiency, strengthen controls, re
• duce manual effort, and enhance data quality through data-driven process improvements.
• Design, develop, and implement automation opportunities, workflow enhancements, and scalable reporting solutions that improve operational effectiveness and reporting timeliness.
• Partner with stakeholders across sustainability, enterprise services, finance, data, and technology teams to deliver reporting improvements and support implementation of enhanced processes and tools.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities that can enhance sustainability reporting, management information, operational decision-making, and process efficiency.

Your Experience

• Experience working within reporting, controls, or assurance environments, with a strong understanding of reporting processes, reconciliations, governance frameworks, and the production of reliable management or external reporting.
• Experience working with complex datasets and proven ability to identify inefficiencies and implement process improvements through automation, workflow redesign, technology-enabled solutions, or continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to translate business requirements into practical and scalable solutions.
• Sustainability reporting, GHG accounting, environmental reporting, or environmental data management experience.
• Experience partnering effectively with stakeholders across business, operations, and technology teams to deliver improvements and solve complex business challenges.
• Demonstrated interest in emerging technologies, automation, and artificial intelligence-enabled solutions, with a focus on improving business processes, reporting capabilities, and operational efficiency.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across business and technical teams.

Yours Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor or Masters degree.
• 3-5 years relevant work experience (ideally Financial Services).
• Experience working with PowerBI, SQL, AI models or comparable data management and automation tools.

What Will Help You Excel

• A natural curiosity for how processes work and how they can be improved.
• A passion for using data to solve business problems and drive better outcomes.
• A proactive mindset with the confidence to challenge existing ways of working and propose new approaches.
• The ability to balance delivery of operational responsibilities with longer-term improvement initiatives.
• Interest in sustainability, environmental reporting, and the evolving role of technology within reporting and controls functions.

Why Join Us

• This role offers a unique opportunity to help shape the future of sustainability reporting within a growing and evolving function. You will contribute to critical GHG reporting activities while helping drive improvements in data quality, reporting efficiency, automation, controls, and process design.
• You will work at the intersection of sustainability, data, process improvement, and technology, helping build more scalable and timely reporting capabilities that support the firm's operational sustainability objectives and evolving reporting requirements.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

Guidance on AI use for candidates

At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we’ve provided guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.  Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

To learn more about BlackRock, please visit Careers.BlackRock.com. We also encourage you to get to know us on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, X, and TikTok.

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, family status, gender identity, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected attributes at law.