Senior Manager ESG Reporting

Job Description Summary

Lead the quarterly and annual ESG reporting process by ensuring accurate, timely, and audit-ready ESG disclosures. Partner with KPI owners, ESG functions, auditors, and reporting stakeholders to drive data quality, regulatory compliance, continuous improvement, and effective ESG reporting governance. Support the implementation of evolving ESG reporting requirements, including CSRD and ESRS, and contribute to the development of scalable reporting processes and systems.

Job Description

Sandoz continues to go through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines. As we continue down this new and ambitious path, unique opportunities will present themselves, both professionally and personally. Join us, the future is ours to shape!

Key Responsibilities

• Lead ESG data collection, validation, consolidation, analysis, and reporting across quarterly and annual reporting cycles.

• Perform data quality reviews, trend analysis, and year-over-year variance assessments, ensuring completeness, consistency, and transparency of ESG disclosures.

• Prepare ESG reporting materials and communicate key insights, risks, performance trends, and business drivers to stakeholders and leadership.

• Act as the ESG reporting subject matter expert, providing guidance to KPI owners and business functions on reporting requirements, reporting frameworks, training, and reporting processes.

• Manage external assurance activities, audit requests, evidence collection, stakeholder engagement, and implementation of audit recommendations while ensuring compliance with reporting controls and governance requirements.

• Support CSRD and ESG reporting readiness by translating regulations into reporting datapoints, methodologies, processes and controls, and coordinating implementation and gap assessments with business functions.

• Drive standardization, automation, simplification, and continuous improvement of ESG reporting processes, frameworks, validation rules, and data controls.

• Lead cross-functional ESG reporting projects and strategic initiatives, including datapoint implementation, end to end process enhancements, data collection and validation improvements, and system optimization.

• Proactively identify reporting risks, data quality issues, and control weaknesses, and lead remediation activities to strengthen ESG reporting governance and assurance readiness.

 

Minimum Requirements

• Mandatory university degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Sustainability, Environmental Science, or a related field.

• 5+ years of experience in financial reporting, management reporting, ESG reporting, assurance, audit, compliance or data-driven analysis in a complex multinational environment.

• Preferable knowledge of ESG reporting frameworks and regulations, including CSRD, GRI, or similar reporting frameworks.

• Experience in Functional Breadth and Operations Management & Execution.

• Proven project leadership experience in driving cross-functional initiatives and delivering process improvements.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.

• End-to-end process understanding and mindset.

• Experience managing senior stakeholders and leading cross-functional initiatives.

• Ability to embrace change and adapt in a dynamic environment.

• Strong interpersonal skills, collaboration, and stakeholder management capabilities.

• Resilience and professional proficiency in English.

What you’ll receive:

• Monthly pension contribution matching your individual contribution up to 3% of your gross monthly base salary

• Risk Life Insurance

• 5-week holiday per year (1 week above the Labor Law requirement)

• Cafeteria employee benefit program – choice of benefits from Benefit Plus CZ in the amount of 12,000 CZK per year

• Meal vouchers in amount of 120 CZK for each working day (full tax covered by company)

• Multisport Card

• Premium Health Care Program

Why Sandoz? 

Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world’s medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries! While we are proud of our achievements, we have an ambition to do more so that everyone can achieve the basic human right of good health. 

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help even more people gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.  

Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills, experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful careers, where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!  

  

Join us, help us make healthcare fairer and faster.  

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion  

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve. 

#Sandoz 

Skills Desired

Compliance And Controls, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing / Normalization, E2E Process View, Embracing Change, Financial Accounting, Financial And Management Reporting, Interpersonal Savvy, Resilience, Tax