Manager, Climate Risk and Sustainability, Asia

2 weeks ago


Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Standard Chartered Life and Careers Full time
Manager, Climate Risk and Sustainability, Asia (Malaysia / India)

Area of interest: Governance, Risk Management & Compliance

The job holder will support the Environmental, Social, Governance and Reputational Risk (ESGR) team with a number of activities including internal reporting and external disclosures, risk governance, policy management and workplan execution. The role holder will work in close alignment with teams based in Singapore, India and London.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support external and internal ESGR reporting requirements for Group and countries. This involves:
  • Work with first and second line stakeholders including the Technology, Data Strategy, Risk Reporting, Net Zero and ESGR teams to ensure delivery of: a) Climate Risk-related financial disclosures e.g. TCFD, ISSB, CSRD; and b) internal reports to senior management and Committee.
  • Review of data and written commentaries to explain drivers in changes in data.
  • Aid in the review of documents/materials as evidence for ERMF and BCBS 239 compliance.
  • Work with stakeholders to execute on the Book of Work changes to the internal and external reports.
  • Integration with WRB, given the mandate of the team. This includes:
  • Performing due diligence on WRB clients.
  • Support ESGR Risk Appetite framework for WRB.
  • Review and challenge of WRB Residential Mortgages related NZ targets and measurement, the Group's own Net zero emission targets and progress, aligning with industry benchmarks.
  • Other initiatives as directed by the Head.

Business:

  • Broad awareness and understanding of the bank's business in CIB and WRB and risk profile.
  • Communicate confidently with senior stakeholders, present topics in working groups and other committee meetings such as the Climate Risk Management Committee, Group Responsibility and Reputational Risk Committee.

Processes:

  • Contribute to Group-wide RCSA reviews with respect to ESGR risk.
  • Evaluate relevant existing controls and contribute to designing new controls as required.

Risk Management:

  • Understanding of various scenario families including NGFS, IPCC, and IEA scenarios.
  • Understand and translate transmission channels of climate risks into financial system impacts.
  • Familiarity with industry leading climate risk models and climate/ESG data providers, with fluency in the scope, capabilities, and limitations of each tool and platform.
  • Understanding of regulatory expectations with respect to climate risks including capital frameworks etc.
  • Experience in dealing with large complex, change projects and/or building/delivering new capabilities.
  • A proven track record of liaising across diverse stakeholder groups; including senior managers, and large firm networks.
  • Experience with scenario expansion and/or econometric modelling for scenario analysis and stress testing purposes.
  • Ability to code in SAS, R, Python.
  • Prior experience in stress testing, understanding of IFRS9, IRB models in credit retail and wholesale space.
  • Ability to understand and appreciate the complex interlinkages between systems.

Governance:

  • Contribute to overall governance mechanisms (including committee oversight and individual approval authorities) for regulatory and management scenario analysis.
  • 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.
Qualifications

Knowledge/Experience:

  • Bachelors Degree or equivalent.
  • 8+ years of strong experience in reporting, Climate Risk, ESGR and/or Credit Risk Management.
  • Effective in tracking and reporting progress updates of multiple areas and in highlighting key issues.
  • Able to write well and explain complex matters in a simple and intuitive manner.
  • Structured and dynamic, able to work with tight deadlines and multiple demands.
  • Strong experience in MS Excel and Power Point.
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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