Associate, Climate Transition

-Job description

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At HSBC, the term sustainability means achieving sustained profits for our shareholders, developing long-lasting customer relationships, valuing our highly committed employees and managing the social and environmental impact of our business. Global Sustainability sets global strategy on sustainability and focuses on managing the challenges of climate change, managing the social and environmental risks of projects that we finance and identifying business opportunities that have an environmental or social dimension. Global Sustainability oversees HSBC’s global philanthropic programmes - which focus on education and the environment.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as an **Associate, Climate Transition.**

**Principal Responsibilities**
- Provide expertise to support the Co-Head of Climate Change Asia Pacific, Global Head of Climate Transition, as well as other senior leaders of the Global Sustainability Function in Asia Pacific to help shape and deliver the bank’s net zero strategy including the energy transition agenda
- Support efforts to collaborate with bankers and regional leadership to drive client outreach with energy clients and engage them on their transition plans, seeking out opportunities for the bank to finance their transition
- Support the team in generating strategic insights to support decision making, strategic planning, risk management and business opportunities
- Keep up to date with regulatory, policy and industry developments and engage when required with regulators, central banks and governments, think tanks, NGOs and academia
- Support the region and group by creating presentations and data reports to provide information to help build new capabilities to incorporate energy transition risk and opportunities. This includes but not limited to, credit risk for oil and gas, power and utilities and coal-linked clients working with the Risk Function
- Help execute the bank’s client transition plan assessment programme and work collaboratively with colleagues across the Global Sustainability Function to support the bank’s climate analytics, energy policy, investment approach and regional priorities
- Run processes in an auditable and transparent manner with a good appreciation of controls
Requirements
- Good technical understanding of oil, gas, and power markets, as well as experience working with or developing energy and emissions models. Knowledge and experiences in these areas in the context of Asia a plus
- Knowledge on climate change and the energy transition including low-carbon technologies, decarbonisation pathways, regulatory and policy levers, carbon budgets, science-based targets, climate analytics, and both transition and physical climate risk
- Familiarity with a range of standards and frameworks, including the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net-Zero (GFANZ), Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Financial Services Taskforce (FSTF) and the United Nations Environment Program Net-zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) as well as major energy decarbonisation scenarios including the International Energy Agency Net-Zero Emissions Scenario (NZE), and BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook (NEO)
- Demonstrated visible and tangible contribution to the energy transition and net zero emissions agenda on behalf of an organization and across the entire client value chain
- Experience of working in a large, complex, international, and highly matrixed business environment operating across cultures

Others
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including an ability to synthesize complex ideas into clear messages
- Ability to collaborate effectively with various senior stakeholders and deliver on multiple demands and projects within a dynamic environment
- A clear, energising personal purpose and passion to proactively contribute within and beyond the sustainability agenda, and the patience and resilience to remain optimistic and persevere towards the desired outcome
- Tolerance for ambiguity with an ability to understand the core issue and connect the dots to think across and envision what is possible

To be considered for this role, the relevant rights to work in Singapore is required.

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