ESG Reporting & Compliance Advisor

Reporting to the Manager of ESG Reporting and Compliance, this position is responsible for executing on ESG disclosure enhancement plan and data management, aligned with global regulatory reporting requirements. The incumbent will build strong relationships with global and cross-functional teams to ensure that FedEx's governance, strategies, policies, processes, controls and disclosures meet emerging compliance requirements and align with voluntary and regulatory reporting standards. Supports the development of mandatory and voluntary disclosures, ensuring assurance requirements are met and disclosures are consistent across multiple disclosures. The incumbent will socialize the FedEx approach to compliance and communicate necessary business change across its global audience.

Essential Functions

• Serves as a subject matter expert on global ESG reporting matters and ensure that reporting is aligned to the requirements of various regulations (including SEC, CSRD) and monitoring associated trends
• Assists in developing and preparing ESG disclosure reports
• Develops and updates the ESG accounting/reporting policies to be used by relevant stakeholders
• Partners cross-functionally with various stakeholders driving strategic initiatives related to ESG at the Company to ensure alignment between disclosures and corporate strategy and initiatives
• Collaborates with internal stakeholders to gather and analyze data needed for ESG reporting, including consolidated Company-wide ESG reporting, verify reported information, summarize content and distribute the relevant reports
• Assists in establishing a governance and control framework that complies with relevant ESG reporting standards and regulations, in order to ensure reporting integrity and assurance and comply with external assurance expectations
• Assist in implementing and maintaining an ESG internal control program, including understanding and mapping of processes, input assessment, data capture, identifying risks and controls, evaluating the processes for control readiness, executing the required changes, and communicating controls framework requirements and control best-practices
• Stays abreast of changes to relevant ESG reporting regulations, standards, and disclosure requirements, communicates information to relevant stakeholders, and implements required changes to accounting/reporting policies, practices, and processes

Minimum Education

• Bachelor's Degree/equivalent in business, accounting, finance, sustainability or a similar discipline. Advanced degree preferred.

Minimum Experience

• Five (5) years professional experience in SOX compliance, sustainability and ESG disclosures, financial reporting, or auditing and assurance or related area.

Knowledge, skills and abilities

• Demonstrated leadership and critical thinking abilities.

• Strong analytical, written, communication and program management skills

• Strong human relations, organizational/time management, and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to navigate uncertainty, work in a fast-paced environment and complete deliverables within established deadlines.

Preferred:

• Command of U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) along with financial & ESG compliance requirements (SEC, CA, CSRD, ISSB).

• Familiarity with mandatory and voluntary reporting regulations and standards, (ESRS/IFRS, GRI, SASB), frameworks (COSO, TCFD) and third-party ratings (ISS, S&P, Sustainalytics, MSCI).

• Financial or sustainability certifications (CPA, CFA, CSP, GRI, SASB)

Preferred Qualifications:

Pay Transparency: This compensation range is provided as a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary range for this role across all potential locations. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the salary information represents the job level minimum and the job level maximum. Actual starting pay would be determined by experience relative to the job, market level, pay at the location for this job and other job-related factors permitted by law. An employee may be eligible for additional pay, premiums, or bonus potential. The Company offers eligible employees health, vision and dental insurance, retirement, and tuition reimbursement.

Pay: U.S. Pay Range: $5,369.60/month - $10,739.19/month

Additional Details: This position will be hybrid, open domicile, within a reasonable commutable distance from a specific FedEx office location. Employees must be onsite as directed by leadership but allows team members flexibility to work from home otherwise.

FedEx. Where now meets next.

Our vision is to be the earth's most engaged advocates of connected commerce where open borders, new markets and fair, sustainable practices are the norm for the billions of personal supply chains being managed every day in our always on, mobile-first world. We stand for ease, access and opportunity. We lead purposeful innovation, champion entrepreneurs, advocate free trade and empower humans and their place in the era of autonomy and AI. We fight for our customers, a more sustainable planet and an ethical playing field.

FedEx inspires its more than 530,000 employees to remain focused on safety, the highest ethical and professional standards and the needs of their customers and communities. FedEx is committed to connecting people and possibilities around the world responsibly and resourcefully, with a goal to achieve carbon-neutral operations by 2040.

FedEx has been recognized on many different lists both for business success and for being a great employer:

• FORTUNE Magazine: No. 18 among "World's Most Admired Companies" (2023)
• Newsweek Magazine: One of "America's Most Responsible Companies" (2023)
• Forbes Magazine: One of "Americas Best Large Employers" (2023)
• Newsweek Magazine: One of "America's Greatest Work Places for Diversity" (2023)
• FORTUNE Magazine: One of the "Blue Ribbon Companies" that appears on 4+ Fortune Annual Award Rankings (2023)
• FreightWaves: #1 Among the "Top 500 For-Hire Carriers" (2023)
• FreightWaves: Freight-Tech 25 Award, honoring innovation and disruption within the freight industry (2023)

FedEx Corporation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetics disability, or protected Veteran status.

FedEx Corporation does not discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities in regard to job application procedures, hiring, and other terms and conditions of employment. Further, FedEx Corporation is prepared to make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee to enable the applicant or employee to be considered for the desired position, to perform the essential functions of the position in question, or to enjoy equal benefits and privileges of employment as are enjoyed by other similarly situated employees without disabilities, unless the accommodation will impose an undue hardship. If a reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact recruitmentsupport@fedex.com.