Manager, Climate Risk Models

**JOB SUMMARY**
- The Climate Risk Models team is established within ERM charged with building out first line Climate Risk management capabilities, in terms of risk identification, measurement and integrating these into governance and existing risk processes and partnership with the business. This role will support the Head, Climate Risk Models in the required enhancements to existing risk management capabilities in line with emerging regulatory expectations.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Strategy**
- Support climate risk modelling (both physical risk and transition risk) and the use of climate risk models for credit risk and financial stress testing.
- Support initiatives to build out Climate Risk scenario analysis / stress testing capabilities covering Physical and Transition Risks, and for use in BAU client and transactional assessments
- Assess emerging Climate Risk scenarios (e.g. NGFS, IEA), climate stress testing industry practices and supervisory expectations and develop a roadmap for establishing in-house capabilities
- Support the evaluation of external vendor solutions to help fill gaps in internal data and/or analytical capabilities in the short run. Work collaboratively with vendors where necessary
- Work with Model Risk Management to ensure adherence to model risk policy requirements
- Contribute to the broader Climate Risk team in building out best-in-class first line climate risk management capabilities
- Interrogate, assess and choose appropriate models from external parties, including vendors
- Establish requirements and work with Risk Data team in order to collect data on transition risk impacts and risk-related scenario analysis
- Where projects arise collaborate with our academic partners on research opportunities for developing bespoke climate risk modelling and represent the Bank at academic / industry working groups

**Business**
- Support engagement with key footprint countries as well as risk and business stakeholders on the topic of Climate Risk. Ensure the model outputs are fit for purposes not only for regulatory purposes, scenario analysis and stress testing but also for daily business usage, underwriting decisions, risk appetite decisions and strategy design.

**Processes**
- Assess the downstream impact of models to understand its network risk. Participate in relevant model implementation and its user acceptance test to ensure models are appropriately implemented not only within the direct system environment but also its relevant downstream environments. Help policy team to provide model usage guidance to users and address users’ feedback.

**Risk Management**
- Understand Model related uncertainty risk including data, regulatory, business strategy, market, competitive landscape, system, environment, and others to ensure model sponsors, owners and model approval committees make right decisions based on the understanding of associated risk.

**Governance**
- Keep abreast and address home and host regulatory changes relating to models. Ensure modelling process and models meet Model Risk Policy and Model Family Standards so that they can be approved by delegated model approval committee and approval committee. Provide timely and high-quality responses to regulatory queries and requests.

**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.
- Achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

**Key Stakeholders**
- Group Model Validation, Home and host Regulators, Model Sponsors and Owners, CIC Business & Credit, CPBB Business & Credit, Model Risk Management, Credit Policy teams, Finance & Group Treasury

**Other Responsibilities**
- Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in the Climate Risk Team; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures
- 5+ years of relevant experience in Model development or Model Validation.
- Climate risk model development experience or knowledge of Risk modelling within a financial services setting.
- Familiarity with conventional transition scenario modelling and tools, including Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), Simulation Models and Probabilistic Models
- Familiarity with the increasing regulatory expectations facing banks with respect to climate risk
- Excellent analytical skills and comfortable working with large datasets; expertise in econometrics and other quantitative methods is highly desirable.
- Experience in dealing with change projects and/or buildin