UBS India | Sustainability Controller

Responsibilities

• We are looking for a Sustainability Controller to strengthen the governance, controls, and oversight of our Group’s sustainability reporting and disclosures.
• You’ll be joining our Sustainability Controlling team in Pune, part of the Sustainability CFO function.
• The team is responsible for the controls, governance, and oversight required to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the Group’s sustainability reporting.
• Act as a subject matter expert on sustainability reporting topics, providing guidance on metrics, disclosures, reporting requirements, and control frameworks across multiple stakeholders.
• Perform analytical and content reviews of Group sustainability disclosures, assessing reporting revisions and their impacts on published information.
• Support sustainability reporting assurance activities by coordinating with auditors and internal stakeholders throughout the review process.
• define, conduct, and review sustainability reporting risk assessments to identify and mitigate reporting risks
• integrate new ESG regulations, disclosure requirements, and reporting standards into business-as-usual processes

Requirements

• Solid knowledge of accounting standards such as IFRS and US GAAP, with an understanding of banking products and financial services.
• Experience in sustainability reporting, including knowledge of ESG disclosure frameworks, emerging regulations, and reporting standards.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex issues, identify risks, and develop effective solutions.
• Proven ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders across organisational levels, including senior leadership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts in a clear and practical way.
• Experience in change management and delivering projects from initiation through implementation is an advantage.
• More than 10 years of experience in the financial services industry or an accounting firm, with strong experience in controlling and financial reporting.

UBS

UBS is a global wealth manager and the leading universal bank in Switzerland, which also provides diversified asset management solutions and focused investment banking capabilities. Headquartered in Zurich, the group is present in more than 50 markets around the world.

In India, UBS employs more than 15,000 people in Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad. Alongside its client-facing businesses, large Group Functions teams there handle financial accounting and cost controlling, financial and regulatory reporting, capital reporting, treasury, valuations and product control, risk control and compliance for the wider group. UBS also runs India internship programmes for CA, CMA and CS students, and CA, CMA, CFA and MBA (Finance) profiles are common in its finance and risk roles.

• Industry: Global wealth management, banking and asset management
• Headquarters: Zurich, Switzerland (UBS Group AG)
• In India: A team of more than 15,000 people across Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad, working across wealth management, investment banking, brokerage services and research, and in the group's finance, risk, compliance, operations and technology functions