Key Responsibilities

This role sits within the Sustainable Finance team in the Wealth and Retail Bank (WRB), and supports the wider team across the initiatives being rolled out across the private bank, wealth management and SME bank. In particular, the role will focus on building up the bank’s profile as a leader in carbon markets among private banking and SME clients. The candidate will focus on the development of the HNW and SME carbon markets proposition, materials development and business development. He/she will support in the education of frontline, COO and risk colleagues, to support the onboarding of SME carbon project developers and the accompanying solutions to meet their needs. 

Business

SME:
•    Support the proposition build for SME carbon developers, including developing banking solutions to support their growth. 
•    Work closely with Singapore business and rest of SME markets to enable onboarding of carbon developers or broader carbon ecosystem. 
•    Develop client materials and build up SME frontline champions.
•    Support development and implementation of SC WIN campaigns in key markets. SC WIN is our women entrepreneur proposition.   

PvB:
•    Support development of carbon markets and broader SF client discussion materials for private banking client engagement. 
•    Work with business to identify list of clients for engagement. This will include clients in high carbon sectors and agriculture. 

WM: 
•    Support development of carbon markets and broader sustainable investing content. 
•    Work with product teams and asset managers on developing carbon markets product ideas. 
•    Supporting the distribution of one-bank carbon solutions. 
•    Support ongoing annual sustainable investment product reviews and due diligence. 
•    Support monthly development of Sustainable Investments Universe. 

Processes
•    Work with markets to ensure that processes are in place to mitigate greenwashing risks during product launches.

People and Talent
•    Support in driving internal awareness of carbon markets. 
•    Work with product teams on educating frontline on carbon themed products during product launches. 
•    Support in equipping front line colleagues with an understanding of carbon markets and sustainable finance.

Risk Management
•    Support climate risk embedding across key WRB businesses.
•    Support embedding of reputational and sustainability risks across WRB businesses.

Governance
•    Support in ensuring that sustainable finance proposition is in line with our governance standards to prevent greenwashing 

Regulatory and 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.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
 

Key stakeholders
•    Market Heads across segments – consumer, private and SME bank  
•    Front Office teams – PvB and SME 
•    Legal and Compliance   
•    Group wealth management product teams
•    Marketing 

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in CPBB Sustainable Finance

Our Ideal Candidate

•    Education: Bachelor's or advanced degree preferred in Wealth Management, Sustainable Development, Development Finance 
•    Training: 5 years experience in Sustainable Finance, Wealth Management    
•    Languages: Business Communication, Mandarin an advantage

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Sustainable Finance 
•    Project Management 
•    Communications
•    Wealth Management
•    Carbon Markets

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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