Business and Sustainable Finance Governance Lead

Job ID: 32357

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Corporate & Commercial Banking

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 30 Jun 2025

**JOB SUMMARY**
- The role is focused on driving business performance / results through 1. facilitating the implementation of Bank-wide and Client Coverage initiatives 2. supporting discussions and decision-making at various forums / committees and 3. delivering efficiency, change, and business performance agendas.- The role involves a combination of routine, project and ad-hoc work. Specific areas of responsibility will include**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- BPM, Business Risk and Governance, Client Coverage will have experience in business risk and governance in the Banking sector alongside knowledge of Sustainable Finance and in-country regulatory developments. An understanding of commercial strategy, portfolio management, change management and how these play into risk and governance controls is required. They will also drive responses to consultations, surveys and be responsible for 1st line implementation of Sustainable Finance related projects including those which are regulatory driven.**Strategy**
- Analysis of cluster, country and segment onboarding & offboarding, performance, risk appetite and strategies to assess fit with CIB strategy
- Analysis of exit clients and groups that are a poor fit, for various reasons, including segment, profitability, risk, growth potential, geographic fit and other elements of CIB strategy
- Engage with ESG risk and compliance colleagues to ensure that product and related governance is carried out in line with Regulatory Requirement/Expectations
- Work with Audit to support any internal review and to ensure any audit management points are satisfactorily closed out.

**Business**
- Support for bank change projects to effect changes to organisational structure, client strategy, cost savings, headcount savings, property and infrastructure savings, profitability and other metrics.
- Ad hoc support for management meetings, including analysis and preparation of papers.
- Engaging with coverage, finance, credit and other key stakeholders for support for investment proposals and BAU asks requiring approval from Coverage head.
- Manage regular pipeline meetings (materials, actions and notes). Ensure pipeline is up to date and reflects an accurate picture of business momentum.
- Oversee Account Plan regular updates and quality. Review Platinum and Gold client lists on a regular basis in conjunction with Segment heads to ensure effective coverage and tracking against objectives: key commercial opportunities, C-suite engagement and realisation of financial aspirations.
- Ensure accurate wallet share information are available for Platinum and Gold clients (based on Coalition), steer frontline to use this information (e.g. for account plans)

**Processes**
- Drive alignment and influence the development of appropriate processes and support with projects related to such process changes across the cluster
- Drive implementation of local reporting, ESRM or Net Zero requirements
- Ensure SF and Coverage Origination adhere to existing operational processes and work to improve or create new operational processes and controls e.g. working closely with Group or local stakeholders on governance for products and SF processes.
- Ensure that existing coverage related controls are implemented and reviewed regularly.

**People & Talent**
- Drive engagement with Group CSO, Group and local Environmental Social and Reputational Risk, COO Functions, Finance, Compliance, Legal

**Risk Management**
- Review papers for submissions to Client Review Committee (CRC), Business Responsibility and Reputational Risk Committee (BRRRC) and Root Cause Reviews (RCR): Sensitive Clients, Level 2 Sanctions Risk Assessment Form (SRAF), Defence Goods Risk Assessment Form (DGRAF).
- Ensure that local product constructs are robust and that local risk controls are adequately implemented
- Assist in ensuring all material operational risks are identified, assessed, mitigated, monitored and reported to relevant governance forums
- Identify areas of risk including regulatory, operational, and other thematic risks for SF products and processes, and then being able to ensure implementation of appropriate controls to mitigate these risks

**Governance**
- Review/ Assist in preparing reviews with external auditors, onshore regulators,overseas regulators.
- Review regional Conduct Plan and monthly supervisory dashboards for conduct flags and attend the Conduct forum.
- Ensure all business heads have the required sources of authority and delegations (POAs, GASB, GDAM, other DoAs, etc).
- 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 expecta