Associate Director ESG Advisory

Job Summary

The Analyst role within the ESG Advisory team will contribute with analytical work on data and content narrative and presentation for advisory mandates. The team works with corporates and financial institutions clients, offering advice on ESG integration, disclosure and stakeholders’ readiness, ratings and sustainable, transition and net zero strategies. The analytical work involves ability to understand and elaborate data base and data platforms on ESG in general, ratings and climate scenarios, work planning, peers and gap analysis, application, and design of sustainable and transition frameworks.

Responsibilities

Strategy

1. Effectively deliver ESG advisory services to organizations globally, and demonstrate an ability to effectively support and learn from best-in-class clients across all continents.
2. Development and delivery of capacity building, training, and educational sessions to enhance client and colleague understanding and engagement with key ESG thematics.
3. Work with high impact and high emitting sectors to support client decarbonization objectives.
4. Support clients to understand, manage, and communicate their sustainability related impacts to stakeholders.

Business

1. Familiar with concepts of ESG and its application to corporate advisory.
2. Identifies market segments relevant to own function, unit, or region.
3. Describes initiatives and strategies for locally relevant market.

Processes

1. Describes the process of sales proposals and presentations.
2. Identifies key features of a formal proposal or presentation.
3. Identifies different sales proposals and their target customers.
4. Locates the resources and tools necessary for developing a proposal and presentation.

People & Talent

1. Work closely with the Head of ESG Advisory supporting analytical assessments and data base integration, participation, and preparation in all stages of pitches, presentations, and mandate executions.

Risk Management

1. Describes the nature of a productive business relationship.
2. Explains the benefits of building business partnerships.
3. Identifies key business relationships in own organization.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

1. Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
2. 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.
3. Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

1. SF Originators
2. Risk Management including Environment and Social Risk Management Team
3. Industry Experts

Other Responsibilities

1. Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in UK. Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Our Ideal Candidate

1. 4+ years of experience in sustainability.
2. Strong interpersonal skills with a proven ability to effectively communicate with corporates and large financial institutions at C-Suite level and above.
3. Good attitude at working in a developing environment and being an agent of change.
4. Ability to effectively manage client relationships across markets and sectors.
5. Capacity to think innovatively, with a deep understanding of corporate transition planning, to provide specialized solutions to global clients developing climate strategies.
6. Diverse background in sustainability preferred to support work with a variety of stakeholders and client perspectives.
7. Support the development of industry frameworks and best practice.
8. Strong analytical skills and presentation capabilities.
9. Project management skills.
10. Well-developed listening, communication and influencing skills.
11. Diversity of thoughts is encouraged.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

1. Account Management
2. Cross-Selling
3. Regulatory Environment - Financial Services
4. Understanding Customer Needs

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. 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.

Together We

1. 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.
2. Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well.
3. 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.

1. Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
2. 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.
3. Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
4. 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.
5. A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
6. 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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