Senior Technical Officer, Financial Services

CDP; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - GBP 41,000; Full time

Job summary

A global environmental non-profit is seeking a Senior Technical Officer to enhance its disclosure framework focused on the Financial Services sector. This role involves developing technical documentation, analyzing data, and collaborating with various stakeholders to promote corporate environmental action. Candidates must have a relevant academic qualification, experience in environmental issues, and strong analytical skills. This is a hybrid position requiring 2 days in the London office weekly, with a salary range of £32,157 to £40,197.

Qualifications

• Professional experience in environmental issues or financial services.
• Ability to interpret qualitative and quantitative data.
• Motivation with a collaborative working style.

Responsibilities

• Develop the question bank and reporting guidance for the Financial Services sector.
• Analyze response data and conduct research on the Financial Services sector.
• Deliver internal presentations and support team collaboration.

Skills

Expertise in corporate environmental disclosure

Research and analytical skills

Time management

Written communication

Collaboration

Education

Relevant academic qualification

Job description

Title – Senior Technical Officer, Financial Services

Location – London

Salary – £32,157 – £40,197

About CDP

CDP is a global non‑profit that runs the world’s only independent environmental disclosure system. As the founder of environmental reporting, we believe in transparency and the power of data to drive change. Partnering with leaders in enterprise, capital, policy and science, we surface the information needed to enable Earth‑positive decisions. We helped more than 24,800 companies and almost 1,000 cities, states and regions disclose their environmental impacts in 2024. Financial institutions with more than a quarter of the world’s institutional assets use CDP data to help inform investment and lending decisions. Our team is truly global, united by our shared desire to build a world where people, planet and profit are balanced.

About the Team

Disclosure Content is responsible for the strategic development, maintenance, and delivery of CDP’s disclosure framework (question bank, reporting guidance, and scoring). The disclosure framework provides environmental information to investors, customers, and other data users, and drives companies’ actions to transition to a sustainable economy. Within Disclosure Content, the Strategic Evolution team develops CDP’s disclosure framework in response to strategic projects, standard and framework alignment, and other evolving needs. We work closely with other teams and functions across CDP to implement environmental reporting best practices and pioneer new areas of environmental disclosure.

About this role

This role will provide technical, scientific, and analytical expertise to develop and ensure the high quality of CDP’s disclosure framework, to drive corporate environmental disclosure and action, with a focus on the Financial Services sector. This includes the CDP question bank, reporting guidance, scoring methodologies and resulting data.

What you will do

Contribute to the development of the question bank, reporting guidance, and scoring methodologies – across environmental disclosure, focusing on the Financial Services sector.  Roles include:

• Prioritising data points/metrics from sustainability standards/frameworks relevant to the Financial Services sector and translating these into developments for the evolution of CDP’s corporate question bank and reporting guidance.
• Analyzing response data and conducting desk‑based research on the Financial Services sector.
• Drafting and proof‑reading technical documents.
• Providing Financial Services sector expertise and analytical support across CDP’s broader activities related to its question bank, guidance, and scoring methodologies.  Including contributing to projects (e.g. funded projects, publications, consultations, engagement events).
• Delivering internal presentations/webinars on the Financial Services sector.
• Supporting the planning, implementation, and optimisation of processes related to the evolution and delivery of CDP’s Financial Services questions, guidance, and scoring methodologies.
• Authoring, editing and testing questions and guidance content in CDP’s online disclosure systems.

Actively contribute to an effective and engaged team, clear on its purpose and contribution, by:

• Ensuring you know what is expected of you, through regular 1:1s, having clear objectives in place, and participating in open and honest performance and development conversations.
• Ensuring a respectful and inclusive workplace, where team members communicate openly, share knowledge so it can be used, and respect difference.
• Living the CDP Values and demonstrating the behaviours appropriate to your position.

Internal & External Stakeholders

Internal stakeholders include: Scoring, Thought Leadership, Data, and Customer Success Teams. External stakeholders include: Financial Institutions, Disclosing Organisations, NGO Partners, Standards and Frameworks setters, and Data users.

We’re looking for

• A relevant academic qualification.
• Professional experience in a role related to environmental issues or financial services.
• Technical expertise in corporate environmental disclosure, focusing on the Financial Services sector.
• A demonstrable understanding of the global sustainability agenda and of environmental‑related risks, opportunities, impacts, and dependencies for the Financial Services sector.
• Ability to design, implement, and refine operational processes to drive efficiency.
• A high standard of written English and the ability to present complex information in a simple and concise way.
• Excellent research and analytical skills, and strong attention to detail.
• The ability to organise and interpret qualitative and quantitative data.
• A high level of motivation, with a confident and collaborative working style.
• Strong time management and organisational skills, with an ability to work effectively and accurately under pressure.
• The ability to work effectively and efficiently with team members of different technical and cultural backgrounds.

Before you apply

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How to apply

Please upload your CV in the application form.

Benefits

Salary banding for this role is £32,157- £40,197. This is a hybrid role; candidates will need to live within a commutable distance of the London office and be comfortable with 2 days in the office per week.