Responsibilities
1. Market Coordination
• The role will support the Bank's sustainable finance vision across the region (especially Singapore, China, Taiwan, Indonesia and India), and assist with communications and dissemination of sustainable finance guidelines/policies/information to the markets.
2. Sustainable Business Enabler
• Conduct research on sustainability topics in sensitive sectors such as agriculture, oil & gas, infrastructure; keeping abreast of trends and issues, communicating, training and raising awareness to internal stakeholders.
• Carry out data analytics and modelling updates to enable monitoring of the bank’s net zero progress across nine industry sectors namely: power, oil and gas, automotive, shipping, aviation, real estate, steel, chemicals and food and agribusiness.
• Organise the environmental, social and governance (ESG) and climate activation training agenda.
3. Stakeholder Engagement
• Support as a point of contact for engagements with governmental agencies, industry associations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other relevant agencies/bodies on sustainability matters and where required, collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure appropriate responses and communication.
4. Reporting
• Work with internal stakeholders to collate information for various sustainability reporting medium e.g. Annual Sustainability Review, Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures, Equator Principles, Green Investment Principles for the Belt and Road Initiative
Stakeholders
• Internal - Risk Management Group, Bank’s relationship managers, Technology and Operations, Bank’s Foundation
• External – Bank’s customers, NGOs, investors, regulators, rating agencies, consultants, industry associations
Requirements
• Minimum 8 years’ relevant experience
• Banking experience preferred
• Bachelor’s Degrees in Geography, Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering or Business Administration preferred.
