ESG Controller

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for an ESG Controller to join us. This role can be based in any of the location between Poland, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

Main purpose

Orbia is a global company with operations in multiple sectors, focused on addressing critical global challenges such as water and food security, decarbonization & Energy Transition, information access and connectivity, Orbia’s sustainability strategy is deeply embedded in its operations and solutions, with a strong focus on creating circular economies, reducing carbon emissions, and advancing water resilience.

As ESG controller you will play a key role in driving Orbia’s Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy by ensuring the integrity, completeness, and reliability of Orbia´s ESG data, as well as compliance, reporting accuracy, and alignment with global ESG standards and frameworks. This role will work closely with cross-functional teams (consisting of sustainability, legal, HR and other key functions) to integrate ESG principles into Orbia's financial planning, reporting, risk management and decision making processes, contributing to the company's sustainability objectives and long-term value creation.

Main responsibilities:

Stakeholder Engagement

• Implement ESG principles into Orbia's financial planning, reporting, risk management and decision making processes, contributing to the company's sustainability objectives and long-term value creation.
• Develop this newly created domain within the Finance organization and act as a finance business partner for the different functions exposed to this new ESG legislation both Inside and outside of Finance

Data Management

• Support In collecting & consolidating ESG related data across the company and within the dedicated ESG system
• Establish and maintain reporting policies and internal controls to ensure accurate ESG data collection & reporting

Reporting & Compliance

• Ensure timely and accurate ESG-related (financial) reporting & disclosures in collaboration with the finance and sustainability teams.
• Monitor regulatory changes and ensure adherence to new ESG reporting requirements from a financial controllership perspective.
• Design, implement, and monitor a risk-based internal control framework over ESG data collection & reporting processes ensuring high reliability of ESG reported data.
• Collaborate with Internal control team to integrate ESG risks into the overall enterprise risk management (ERM) framework.
• Support internal and external ESG audits, ensuring proper controls and assurance processes are in place
• Train key employee groups on reporting processes, controls, need/value of reporting.

Strategy & Metrics

• Support with the development and tracking of ESG-related goals, metrics and strategies to support the realization of Orbia's ESG objectives
• Work with business groups across Orbia to align on, implement, and document key ESG performance indicators (KPIs).
• Assess and help quantify the financial effects of ESG-related risks and opportunities within Orbia’s operations, supply chains, and markets.

Our requirements:

• Academic Level: Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Environmental Science, Sustainability, or a related field. Professional certifications (e.g., CPA, CFA, SASB Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting) are preferred.
• Deep knowledge of ESG reporting regulations (including the EU CSRD, ISSB), ESG frameworks, non-financial accounting standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Familiarity with sustainability reporting platforms and data management systems
• Knowledge/Experience: 8+ years of accounting or finance experience and being already exposed to ESG for +2 years.
• Language(s) and level of proficiency: English (fluent), Spanish language skills are a plus (collaboration with Orbia HQ in Mexico).
• Experience in a multinational corporation .

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.

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