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Associate, Sustainable Finance

3 months ago

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Standard Chartered Bank Full time

JOB SUMMARY

  • Work with the Regional Head of Sustainable Finance ("SF"), AME in addition to other team members to drive origination, develop strong client relationships, and be seen as an expert in Sustainable Finance by internal and external stakeholders.
  • The individual will need to be able to identify SF transactions and opportunities, be a centre of excellence, and have an understanding of financing structures and industry trends. The candidate will further have to support the team with developing and rolling out regional and global strategic initiatives and to create relevant partnerships with external organizations that will help further the Sustainable Finance mandate.
  • Our Sustainable Finance team serves as a centre of expertise on a broad set of ESG topics, providing thought leadership, strategic advice, and transaction support for SCB's clients. The group sits within the Corporate and Investment Bank, and works with product and coverage teams to identify and deliver on ESG-related advisory and product opportunities.
  • The Role described below is for an experienced and self-driven individual who will be responsible for the regional business growth and development.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

  • Work on the development and implementation of client strategies for Sustainable Finance products and solutions
  • Work closely with the Regional Head of Sustainable Finance and other team members to develop and execute a plan that would make SCB the Bank best known for Sustainable Finance by our clients and other stakeholders.
  • Work closely with the wider SF team, coverage, and product partners to develop an understanding of the competitive landscape and identify prospective partners who can address customer needs and accelerate growth
  • Work closely with group corporate affairs to build a regional internal/external stakeholder strategy promoting sustainability, ensuring a consistent messaging internally and to the wider market

Business

  • Drive new sustainable finance transactions and origination across all products, including loans, bonds, trade, derivatives, and deposits
  • Have a good understanding of the client base and proactively build pipeline, identifying core industries and opportunities
  • Be able to work with relationship teams to develop client transition plans that encourage decarbonisation
  • Proactively remain abreast of regional, global, and industry developments, assess implications, and align and develop Bank relevant initiatives across businesses in response to regulatory and industry developments in sustainable finance
  • Have an understanding of ESG ratings and benchmarking analysis for corporates
  • Develop Sector thematics that describe sustainable finance structure alternatives
  • Develop opportunities through attendance at key Industry events as necessary.

Processes

  • Proactively manage the designated Sustainable Finance client and product portfolio to ensure risks are appropriately identified and managed.
  • Maintain close ties with key internal stakeholders eg. Financial Markets, Transaction Banking, Corporate Finance, Risk, Country CEOs, etc.

People & Talent

  • Training and capacity building of the regional origination and risk teams, in addition to coverage bankers and product partners
  • Remain abreast of industry and market developments through regular upscale and training, attending events and webinars, amongst others.

​​​​​​​Risk Management

  • Build and maintain an understanding of environmental and social risks across industry classes
  • Safeguard the bank against reputational and greenwashing risk damages but proactively develop sustainable finance structures that are in line with global industry best practices
  • Encourage good and proactive management of environmental, social, regulatory, reputational, and ethical risks governance across all areas of the business
  • Take the initiative regarding regulatory, reputational, and ethical matters, and proactively provide advice to clients.

Governance

  • Ensure compliance with the sustainable finance governance structure and environmental and social risk management policies. Challenge improvement of these
  • Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

  • Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
  • Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and the Group Code of Conduct.
  • Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.]
  • Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct, and compliance matters.
  • Adhere to local and international regulator-prescribed responsibilities and policies.

Key Stakeholders

  • Regional management, product, and client teams
  • Global and regional heads of Sustainable Finance and regional / country leads
  • Global Head of Environmental Social Risk Management
  • Global Sustainable Finance Team
  • CIB, GB, FM, TB, CF
  • External: The Bank's customers, competitors, regulators, investors and partners

Other Responsibilities

  • Ability to independently drive initiatives with minimum hands-on supervision, including with developing partnership opportunities
  • Client-focused with ability to establish and leverage high-impact relationships while presenting creative solutions
  • Strong communication and presentation skills, and stakeholder management skills
  • Delivery and execution focused
  • Ability to work with lots of moving parts and complexity
  • Highly skilled in creation of briefing materials, report writing, and preparation of presentations

Qualification

  • Degree (BA or equiv)
  • Ideal candidate will have sustainable finance, sustainability, or banking experience, with experience in origination
  • Demonstrated knowledge and experience in Sustainable Finance or Sustainability.
  • Knowledge of and experience across multiple banking products preferred
  • Knowledge of environmental and socials risks and ESRM policies of the bank
  • Ability to promote good teamwork, collaboration, and management of conflict across stakeholders

Role-Specific Technical Competencies

  • Banking Products

Sustainable Finance Solutions

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

  • Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
  • Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple, and learning from doing well, and not so well
  • Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long-term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial, and social well-being.

  • Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
  • Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum), and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
  • Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
  • Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital well-being platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders, and all sorts of self-help toolkits
  • A continuous learning cultureto support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual, and digital learning.
  • Being part of an inclusive and values-driven organisation,one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions, and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the "Apply" button below.