Ad - Sustainable Finance Solutions

Job ID: 37072

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Audit, Accounting & Finance

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Hybrid Working

Opening date: 15 Aug 2025

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
The AD, Sustainable Finance Solutions - Governance will have experience in governance across the Bank. They will have a knowledge of Sustainable Finance and ESG regulatory developments, supervisory standards and best practices. They will have a passion for Sustainable Finance and be a self-starter and quick learner.- They will ensure that the risk control environment in CSO (Chief Sustainability Office) at Standard Chartered is reviewed regularly and all required mitigants are in place. They will be able to relate these risks and mitigants to the wider Sustainable Finance landscape and have a good understanding of Greenwashing risk. They will also be able to work with CSO stakeholders across Coverage, products, Risk and Compliance to ensure controls are regularly reviewed and fit for purpose. This role will support the Sustainable Finance Solutions team to use governance and the mitigation of greenwashing risk to drive sustainable finance revenues across the Group.**Strategy**
- Support the risk and controls monitoring of CSO processes and sustainable finance products, with a focus on the ensuring controls for Sustainable Finance products and processes are robust - including the qualitative and quantitative assessment of the controls.
- Support the development and monitoring of sustainable finance products, with a particular focus on governance and controls.

**Business**
- Assist in ensuring that all new products, which form a significant part of the Sustainable Finance corporate plan, have robust risk controls built around them
- Ensure that KPI linked transactions have adequate and impactful KPIs and SPTs. This will involve heavy engagement with internal deal teams and clients. It will require a robust knowledge of sustainable finance, KPI setting, benchmarking and instinctive greenwashing risk control
- Ensure actions around SF product / process governance uplift are tracked and followed up
- Provide up to date monitoring, testing outcomes and recommendations to key risk forums - Sustainable Finance Governance Committee and Group Non-Financial Risk committees

**Processes**
- Ensure SF adheres to existing operational processes and work to improve or create new operational processes and controls e.g., working closely with Head of SF Solutions - Governance for new products, Sustainability Linked assessments
- Ensure SF products and processes standards are upheld to mitigate any greenwashing risk including constant review of the portfolio and improvements in process required
- Ensure that existing controls are implemented and reviewed regularly including conducting Controls Sample Testing (CSTs), Residual Risk Assessments per Risk Controls Self-Assessment.
- Ensure that actions (from governance committees, audit, regulator conversations) are followed up with rigour

**People & Talent**
- Develop a strong working relationship with COO Functions, Product Teams, Finance, GRPA, Compliance, Legal, ESG and Reputational Risk, Operational Risk and Coverage

**Risk Management**
- Ensure risks and issues within SF processes and products are self-identified, escalated and monitored appropriately with an action plan going forward
- Ensure that appropriate risk metrices relating to CSO processes are submitted and monitored
- Assist in ensuring all material operational risks are identified, assessed, mitigated, monitored and reported to relevant governance forums
- Assist SF Solutions in identifying areas of operational risk for new products and new business, regulatory and thematic risks, and then being able to ensure implementation of appropriate controls to mitigate these risks
- Assist in ensuring that product constructs are robust and that risk controls are adequately implemented

**Governance**
- Assist with project management of key initiatives and coordinating with stakeholders across COO Functions, Product Teams, Finance, GRPA, Compliance, Legal, ESG and Reputational Risk, Operational Risk and Coverage and others
- Support projects related to product roll outs and Sustainable Finance Governance
- Responsible for ensuring SF Solutions owned documents are refreshed in a timely manner
- 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.
- Help the Sustainable Finance solutions and governance team to achieve