Manager, Climate Risk and Sustainability, Asia

**Job Summary**
- The job holder will be based in Malaysia and focussing on providing support for the Group Climate Risk team.- The role holder will work in close alignment with a dedicated onshore manager that covers content driven topics and senior stakeholder management.- Key Responsibilities:
- Strategy
- Support the Climate Risk scenario workstream focussed on regulatory and management stress testing and scenario analysis, as well as periodic analysis including portfolio sensitivity analysis to both transition and physical risks.
- Support the use of climate scenario analysis for various objectives, including risk management, business
- decision making and strategy, corporate and account planning. Ensure that appropriate risk parameters and business targets are set up and adequately consider Group’s stress results.
- Support the development of a climate scenarios knowledge base, including research into industry best practices, regulatory and academic developments.
- Focus on execution while being innovative, ability to take accountability and find ways to be part of the solution even when identifying problems.
- Support country teams in executing local climate risk related stress testing and scenario analysis needs.
- Have an automation-based mind set to support the automation of the scenario analysis for countries.
- Business- Broad awareness and understanding of business model and risk profile.
- Understanding of the bank’s existing enterprise risk management framework, governance of the ERMF related requirements, wider stress testing and scenario analysis capabilities and existing processes, with an understanding of the climate risk stress testing and scenario analysis approach

Processes
- Design and build controls for the Scenario analysis related workstream for Climate Risk.
- Evaluate relevant existing controls and contribute to designing new controls as required.
- Support development of a climate database, including sourcing of internal and external data and performing data
- quality checks as required.

**Risk Management**
- Risk Management
- Understanding of various scenario families including NGFS, IPCC, and IEA scenarios
- Understand and translating 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.
- Regulatory & Business 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
- Senior business and risk stakeholders and their team members:

- Group Risk Framework Owners
- Global Head, Enterprise Risk Management
- Global Head, Stress Testing & Analytics
- Other stakeholders include:

- Regional and country stress testing teams
- Group Risk reporting
- Group Finance
- Group Strategy
- Group Sustainability
- Group Investor Relations
- Group Corporate Affairs
- Group Scenario Design team

**Qualifications And Competencies**
- Knowledge/Experience:

- Market Knowledge: 8-12 years of strong experience in Climate Risk and/or Credit Risk Management as well as global climate policies and industry trends within the space.
- Good communicator, in particular written communications in English
- Ability to explain complex matters in simple and intuitive terms
- Ability to track and report progress updates of multiple areas against milestones and highlight key issues
- Collaborative: working as part of a broader team to ensure a coordinated and consistent approach
- Good organiser of incoming requests within the team
- Ability to work with mínimal direction
- Demonstrate understanding of and commitment to the Group's core values.
- Ownership mindset, able to think creatively and be open to n