ESG Data Governance Manager

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

You will be part of the Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) team, a growing group focused on the external reporting of Verizon’s environmental and social data. You will be responsible for managing components of the ESG data governance program. As a subject matter expert, you will work with external auditors and consultants as well as with internal data owners to develop processes and controls for reporting non-financial operating metrics, collaborate with data owners to validate nonfinancial data, and partner closely with Verizon enterprise risk management, internal audit and external reporting.

You have an eye for detail, a love of numbers and a passion for making a difference. No stranger to a fast-paced environment and tight deadlines, you can adapt to changing circumstances, juggle competing priorities, and combine a sense of urgency with due care and attention to detail. You get personal satisfaction from analyzing problems and delivering solutions to improve the business.

• Ensure ESG data governance policies and procedures are followed and a strong internal controls environment is maintained across the company.
• Facilitate the development of process and control documentation for non-financial operating metrics, as well as updates required for change management or to address identified gaps in controls.
• Assist with training data owners on the ESG-specific program level standards for reporting data and their responsibility for owning information quality and adhering to program level standards and identified controls. This entails working with senior leaders, walking them through the documented program level standards and metric level processes and controls, identifying gaps and making recommendations for potential areas of improvement.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the business to facilitate the gathering of data, assessing data validity and synthesizing data into large datasets to support reported metrics.
• Analyze and consolidate a wide variety of data across the enterprise into cohesive reporting; present data trends, insights and related recommendations to leadership.
• Develop and/or collect required supporting documentation for reporting.
• Manage a team of external auditors and consultants.

Where you'll be working...

This hybrid role will have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days as set by the manager.

This position can be located in any domestic Verizon location.

What we’re looking for...

You'll need to have:

• A Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience
• Six or more year of relevant work experience
• Experience in internal audit, external reporting or enterprise risk management.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Knowledge of risk frameworks (COSO).
• A relevant professional certification (e.g., CPA, CIA, CISA).
• Experience with non-financial reporting (i.e., environmental or human capital metrics).
• Superior attention to detail skills.
• Ability to analyze data and leverage information to provide clear, concise and supported recommendations for action.
• Experience formulating, interpreting and implementing policies and processes to ensure a strong control environment.
• Experience leveraging auditing principles and methods to evaluate policies, processes and systems to identify business risks and control gaps.
• Presentation and collaboration skills.
• Ability to engage with stakeholders at any level in the business.
• Verbal and written communication skills to explain confidential and complex issues, and make recommendations to leadership.
• Knowledge of data modeling and database development and administration.
• Experience to ESG, data and privacy related regulations such as SASB, GRI, GDPR, SOX.
• Experience working with IT Business Partners to understand data sources and extract data from source systems when necessary.
• Experience with GRC tools.
• Proficiency experience in G-Suite and Microsoft Office.
• Experience within Verizon.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

NYC candidates: Verizon requires new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 for onsite and hybrid NYC roles. Verizon provides reasonable accommodations consistent with legal requirements (e.g., for medical or religious reasons). Additional information will be provided during the hiring process.