The year-end close starts the moment the balance sheet date passes, and from then on the sustainability statement runs on the same clock as the annual report. It has to be complete, reviewed and assured when the financial statements are, not a few weeks later. This listing is for remote CSRD reporting manager jobs: a full-time position paid $72,000 per year (USD), done from home and open to applicants worldwide. You own the reporting cycle from the materiality assessment through to the assurance sign-off.
Put simply, a CSRD reporting manager runs the process that turns a company's environmental, social and governance information into a sustainability statement prepared under the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), the standards that sit under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. Read as a calendar, the CSRD reporting manager job description has five phases: materiality, datapoint mapping, the data collection round, drafting and limited assurance. Each has an owner, an input and a due date.
You will not produce every number yourself. You decide what gets reported, who supplies it and by when, and you keep that on schedule.
Everything later depends on this step. Double materiality looks at each sustainability matter from two directions, and a topic is material if it qualifies on either one.
This side asks how the company's own operations and value chain affect people and the environment. Think of supplier emissions or water use at a production site.
This side asks how sustainability matters create risks or opportunities that could affect cash flows, access to finance or the company's position. A hypothetical case: a distribution business heavily exposed to a future carbon price on road fuel.
You run workshops and interviews with finance, risk, procurement and HR, plus external voices such as investors where useful, and agree scoring thresholds in writing. Write the methodology as if you were the auditor reading it, because the assurance provider will ask why a topic was ruled in or out, and "we discussed it" does not count as evidence.
Material topics then translate into ESRS disclosure requirements and individual datapoints. For each one you record whether it applies, which system holds the figure, who owns it, what calculation sits behind it and what evidence will back it up.
Many groups do this in Workiva, which keeps narrative, tables and supporting files in one place with version history and review controls. Typical tasks in the platform:
Data owners hold the actual numbers: the energy lead at a plant, the payroll manager, the group controller. Most are at their busiest during the close too.
What works is the routine any good close team uses. Send requests early with a template, a definition and an example of acceptable evidence. Agree a cut-off and a midpoint check. Keep an open-items list everyone can see. When figures arrive, compare them with the prior period and ask about anything that moved without an explanation.
The statement sits inside the management report, so it has to read consistently with the financial statements: the same reporting boundary, the same terms, and figures that reconcile wherever the two overlap. You draft the narrative on policies, actions, targets and metrics for each material topic, route it through legal, investor relations and senior management, and work through comments until the text is frozen.
Keep a disclosure checklist next to the draft so reviewers can see every required item is covered or explained.
CSRD reports must be assured externally, currently at the limited level. Limited assurance is lighter than a financial statement audit, but the provider still tests your processes, samples datapoints and reads the materiality file closely. Have the pack ready before they ask: the methodology, the datapoint register, evidence for likely samples and a log of judgements made during the year. Answer queries within days. Once the opinion is signed and the statement goes out with the annual report, hold a short lessons-learned review, and the next cycle begins.
Most of this work already happens in Workiva, shared documents and video calls, so it suits a home office well. Anyone weighing CSRD reporting manager work from home jobs should still be clear about one thing: the company's reporting calendar does not bend to your time zone. Expect some calls outside your usual hours around data cut-off and during assurance fieldwork, and plan leave away from those windows. Short written status updates matter more than where you live.
The CSRD reporting manager salary here is $72,000 per year, paid in USD, for full-time work. That is the stated figure for this role. When you compare CSRD reporting manager salary per year across offers, check the scope behind each number: some roles add group ESG data management or investor questionnaires, while others are purely CSRD.
Five or more years in sustainability reporting, audit or ESG consulting is expected, with hands-on CSRD and ESRS work and familiarity with Workiva. A degree in accounting, finance or environmental science is common. The GRI Certified Sustainability Professional credential is valued because it shows you know the GRI Standards, which many companies used before CSRD and still apply alongside it.
The two frameworks differ in ways that matter day to day. GRI is voluntary, used globally and centred on a company's impacts on the economy, environment and people. CSRD is EU law: it requires reporting under ESRS, adds financial materiality to impact materiality, provides for digital tagging and requires external assurance. GRI experience transfers well; CSRD layers the financial angle and the assurance discipline on top.
The CSRD reporting manager skills that get tested are materiality methodology, ESRS knowledge, evidence review, deadline planning and clear drafting.
People asking how to become a CSRD reporting manager from financial reporting or audit will find the route is shorter than it looks. You already know close calendars, controls, evidence files and working with auditors. What you need to add is ESRS content, double materiality and GHG Protocol basics for emissions data. A structured CSRD reporting manager course from a professional body or standard setter, together with the GRI certification, covers much of that.
On a CSRD reporting manager resume, describe cycles you ran rather than duties you held, with your own real scope and results. Typical CSRD reporting manager interview questions ask how you would defend a materiality decision to an assurance provider and what you would do when a data owner misses cut-off.
To be straight about it, applicants without relevant experience will not walk into this seat, and entry level CSRD reporting manager jobs are rare. Analyst or associate roles in sustainability reporting or ESG assurance are the usual first step.
Positions like this exist inside companies within CSRD scope, at consultancies that run reporting and readiness projects for clients, and at software providers such as Sweep, which need people who understand the reporting process from the inside. These are examples of organisations active in the field; none of them posted this opening.
The EU Omnibus simplification package changed the picture. It postponed deadlines for companies in later waves and narrowed the scope of the directive, so fewer companies will have to report. Those still in scope face the same standards and assurance expectations, and they need skilled people to run the cycle. If you are searching for CSRD reporting manager jobs remote worldwide, including roles marked as hiring now, expect demand to sit mainly with larger groups and their advisers.