Key Responsibilities

•    Drives efforts with Supply Chain Management, and various Functions to embed ESG Risk considerations into first-line processes.
•    Embed enhanced due diligence criteria across various ESG Risk criteria into first-line processes and ensure first-line are kept up to date with evolving risk and regulatory landscape. 
•    Understanding of the bank’s existing enterprise risk management framework, stress testing and scenario analysis approach of impacted principal risks.
•    Conduct Review and challenge of the Net Zero methodologies. 

•    Contribute to Group-wide RCSA reviews. Evaluate relevant existing controls and contribute to designing new controls as required. 
•    Continuously improve the efficiency and effectiveness of ESG and Reputational Risk management processes.
•    Oversee the reporting of risk appetite metrics and key indicators across operations, and third party, insuring adherence to Data quality. 
•    Provide regular updates to relevant Group committees providing thorough analysis of progress and highlighting challenges. 
•    Provide inputs to ensure maintenance of formalised procedures and DOIs for ESG policy and standards.

•    Uphold the integrity of risk/return decisions, by challenging business to demonstrate that risk origination and control decisions are properly informed and consistent with the reputational and sustainability risk strategy and risk appetite.
•    Act quickly and decisively when any risk and control weakness become apparent and ensure they are addressed within an appropriate timeframe and escalated through the relevant committees.
•    Where required, act as the second line for risk areas aligned to the Reputational and Sustainability Risk RTF and Policy.  Review and challenge Standard generation and updates and review control environment for weakness. 

Purpose

•    This role is integral to drive the ESG and Reputational Risk agenda and framework within key functions and across markets. 

The Associate Director, ESGR & NZ Oversight, Functions will:

•    In accordance with the Enterprise Risk Management framework, support embedding of Environmental, Climate and Social risk across Functions Operations, Third-Party, Resilience etc fulfilling the requirements of second line oversight and challenge for all regulatory commitments.
•    Support execution of the Environment, Climate, Social and Reputational Risk Appetite framework including setting statement, developing metrics and limits, overseeing reporting, cascade of metrics to countries and support integration into the Group’s Corporate planning strategy process. 

•    Support development of embedding Environmental and Social risk requirements for the Group’s Operations and Third-Party vendors guided by industry standards.  
•    Support continuous training initiatives for both the 1st line and 2nd line to ensure sustainability risk embedding into BAU risk management.
•    Work closely with Risk Framework Owners to implement the Risk & Control Self-Assessment ensuring controls are in place across both first and second line of defence owned processes, particularly climate, ESG, Greenwashing risk identification, assessment, and acceptance. 
•    Support the team’s workplan deliverables to meet critical ESG regulatory requirements arising from the home regulator and from key markets across the Group.  
•    Support country & regional teams in rolling out climate risk and broader E&S requirements across key markets across Group and help country teams implement local sustainability requirements. 

Skills and Experience

Our Ideal Candidate

•    Good knowledge of ESG, Reputational risk management, or other risk-type management for financial services
•    5+ years of experience in a discipline relating to Environmental, Social or Climate risk. 
•    Good knowledge of Net Zero methodologies for non-financed emissions.
•    5+ years of experience working in a major international banking organisation. 
•    Knowledge of financial and non-financial risks and trends.
•    Strong creativity and problem-solving abilities.
•    Excellent inter-personal skills; comfortable in building relationships at senior levels and across teams, with outstanding written and oral communication skills.
•    Confident self-motivated person with a high level of drive and ability to operate in a fast-paced environment

Role Specific Technical Skills

•    Sustainable Finance 
•    ESG
•    Banking Products
•    Regulations for Climate and ESG
•    Risk and Control 
•    Data handling skills
•    Effective writing and communication

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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