Finance Manager, Carbon Reporting

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.