Director - Sustainability Controller

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Job Description:

Director - Sustainability Controller (Solventum)

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

The Sustainability Controller will develop and lead the execution of the controls over Solventum’s sustainability data and external reporting strategy. This role will collaborate closely with the ESG Reporting Lead to ensure compliance with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), California climate disclosure law, and other sustainability reporting requirements, including the development and implementation of internal controls over ESG data and reporting.

A successful candidate will be well-versed in existing global regulatory ESG reporting requirements, and a thought leader as we strategically navigate this evolving landscape. You will be hands-on as well as strategic, with deep expertise in regulatory reporting, internal controls, and building and improving robust processes that will scale to meet both our current and future challenges. You will collaborate with our Sustainability/ESG, Internal Audit, Legal, HR, Finance, Investor Relations, and subject matter teams across the globe to ensure we remain well coordinated and meet all of our ESG regulatory reporting requirements. This role will report to the Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer.
 

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop and operationalize the internal infrastructure (policies, processes, controls, and systems) required to meet mandatory ESG and CSRD reporting and assurance requirements.

• Implement SOX-like controls across the end-to-end business processes from data sources to disclosures.

• Overseeing SOX process/control and operational audit documentation, including process flows, risk and controls matrices, testing workpapers, issue listings, remediation plans and audit reports related to ESG and CSRD reporting and assurance.

• Partner with stakeholders in building audit ready data collection and methodological processes for ESG and CSRD data and implement and maintain internal controls.

• Provide leadership and vision for process improvement and system enhancements for controlled ESG and CSRD data gathering, processing and reporting.

• Address compliance gaps and proactively identify opportunities to improve the control program to ensure consistency and transparency.

• Develop strong relationships with external auditors to coordinate their roles in the review, oversight, and assurance to certain aspects of mandatory external reporting.

• Coordinate mandatory CSRD and ESG-related reporting, in partnership with Sustainability/ESG, Legal, HR, Finance, Investor Relations, Statutory, and subject matter experts across the globe to ensure we remain well coordinated and meet all of our regulatory reporting requirements.

• Support and coordinate with teams managing our voluntary ESG reporting to ensure we’re working in a synergistic manner.

• Partner with local teams to ensure appropriate disclosures and centralized assurance on these disclosures, including helping them to stay