Head of Sustainable Finance KSA | Riyadh, SA

Job Description

Strategy and clients

• Work with Group Chief Sustainability Officer to develop and execute plans to make GIB best known for sustainable finance in the region.
• Become a valued and trusted partner and advisor, through engaging and advancing clients on sustainability matters.

Sustainable finance products and services

• Lead business development opportunities in sustainable finance to deliver sustainable transactions, outstanding relationships and sound commercial outcomes.
• Lead the delivery of relevant sustainability advisory services, inc. client proposals, pitch decks and benchmarking analysis.
• Lead the development of supporting analysis and assessment to understand the nature of clients' business and sectoral developments.
• Collaborate with the sustainable finance and internal teams to ensure that GIB has an innovative suite of suitable, high integrity sustainable products and services.

Processes and risk

• To drive deeper integration of sustainability by overseeing the implementation, development and update of internal knowledge and sustainability frameworks, e.g. Sustainable and Transition Finance Framework, Sustainable Balance Sheet.
• Ensure robust legal and regulatory compliance across all activities and in line with GIB's own internal frameworks and policies.
• Ensure outstanding integrity and transparency in sustainability activities.
• Support and encourage positive, proactive management environmental, social, regulatory, reputational and ethical risks integration across all areas of the business.

Policy, advocacy and engagement

• Develop, engage and manage relationships with external stakeholders, including shareholders, peers, regulatory bodies and ESG rating agencies, on sustainability and climate-related issues.
• Support GIB's contribution to SAMA's ESG Banks Advisory Committee workstreams, leading workstreams if required and supporting other GIB representatives.
• Raise GIB's role as a thought leader in the region through contributing to articles and participating in conferences, events and webinars.

Governance and regulation

• Support other regional regulatory requirements and policy needs.
• Ensure that sustainability-related committees are provided with the relevant reporting and analysis: Board Sustainability and Climate Change Committee (BSCCC), Group Sustainability Council and the Sustainability Evaluation and Assessment Committee (SEAC).
• Deliver materials to the GIB Board, management committees and groups as required.

People and talent

• Support internal training programmes/collaborations/introduction & referrals of MNC clients in the region across GIB group.

Skills

• Client focused with ability to establish and leverage high impact relationships and present creative solutions.
• Ability to independently drive initiatives with minimum hands-on supervision.
• Ability to promote good teamwork, collaboration and management of conflict across stakeholders.
• Ability to work across different time zones.
• Sustainability-linked Loan Principles, Green Sustainable and Social Bond principles, UN Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Bonds initiative, relevant taxonomy initiatives, TCFD, and other relevant regulations.
• Sustainability risk - assessment, classification, measurement.
• Reporting principles and standards, such as the Equator Principles, UN Global Compact, Principles for Responsible Banking.
• The main ESG ratings methodologies, such as MSCI, Sustainalytics, Vigeo Eiris, CDP.
• Green energy markets, carbon or energy transition advisory, natural capital, social value and social impact.