Director, Sustainable Finance

Roles & Responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY

• This is a fixed-term contract for 9 months.
• Standard Chartered has announced ambitious targets to reach net-zero carbon emissions from its financed activity by 2050, including interim 2030 targets for the most carbon-intensive sectors. The Bank has also announced plans to mobilise USD300 billion in green and transition finance by 2030.
• We are seeking an individual with strategic mindset, enthusiasm, strong project management experience to support the enablement of the Sustainable Finance and Net Zero agenda. The individual will play a key role in managing enablement and other strategic initiatives, driving the coordination across CCIB businesses and functions to ensure Sustainable Finance and Net Zero are effectively integrated across the Bank. This role will have a strong focus on digitisation, automation, and functionality design, representing Sustainable Finance to provide business requirements and input across the bank's operations, processes and systems, with an aim to embed Net Zero, mitigate green-washing risks and drive efficiency.
• The individual will work closely with the SF Head of Strategic Initiatives and SF Head of Enablement to track and manage key workstreams and projects aligned with the Sustainability / Environmental and Social Risk Management agenda.

Strategy

• Review, develop and drive Book of Work of strategic initiatives related to regulatory developments, digitisation, and ESG risk assessment upliftment and not limited to end-to-end SF product processing, front line & second line enablement of ESG risk assessment and embedding ESG into Bank's client and deal life cycle.
• Lead and manage delivery of SF strategic initiatives related to Greenwashing standards and ESG assessment simplification.

Business

• Act as "domain owner" to oversee the end-to-end of delivery of initiatives, ensuring that solutions built are fit-for-purpose and value-accretive.
• Drive necessary process and system transformation essential for SF to meets its commitment to the Board and Group MTs.

Processes

• Drive automation and digitisation across CSO, CCIB, WRB, 2nd Line and Functions, enabling the business to operate effectively and efficiently in delivering the Bank's sustainability agenda and NZ commitments.
• Support the operationalisation of target operating model design and digital solution delivery meeting the Bank's commitment to meet best market practices around greenwashing standards.

People & Talent

• Effectively co-ordinate with stakeholders across the banks to ensure deliverable timelines and milestones are met within stipulated budget.
• Lead, coordinate and orchestrate collaboration between business, operations, delivery and technical teams to drive digital capability outcomes for the Bank.

Risk Management

• Develop relevant processes to minimise risk within Sustainable Finance (including Greenwashing and ESG Risks).

Governance

• Develop robust governance structures to support Sustainable Finance business alignment with relevant frameworks.
• Play key role in supporting the CSO Program Manager ensuring the program governance meets the change delivery standards. ​​​​​​​

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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Key contributors for SF transformation team achieving outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles

Key Stakeholders

• CSO - Head of ESRM
• CSO - SF Solutions
• Client Coverage & CIB Banker Representatives
• Credit and Product GPOs
• ESG & Reputational Risk
• Product COO
• Legal and CFCC
• OTCR
• CFO, Sustainable Finance
• Product Owners and PMOs

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in the Chief Sustainability Officer organisation, through the Digital Transformation Team in Singapore.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent
• 12+ years' experience in banking, processes and products with strong knowledge of environmental, social and governance themes, issues and topics especially ESG Position Statements.
• Global awareness of environmental and social trends to examine and detect trends at industry / regional level.
• Knowledge of banking products such as (not limited to) trade finance, transaction management, lending, financial markets, and bank processes and credit risk.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Project Management
• Knowledge of deal lifecycle and client management
• Sustainable Finance and / or Environmental and Social Risk Management
• Risk Management
• Knowledge of deal lifecycle and client management.
• Data mining and root cause analysis
• Business Management

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 wellbeing.

• 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 wellbeing 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 culture to 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.

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