Director, ESG Risk Management

The Director of Environmental, Social, Governance, and Reputational (ESGR) and Net Zero (NZ) Client Risk Management is responsible for managing ESGR risks, including climate risks, with a focus on environmental and social risks. This role operates within the Enterprise Risk Management framework and ensures compliance with the CIB Climate Credit Risk Standard and Non-Financial ESG and Reputational Risk Management Standard. The Director will provide second-line oversight and challenge to key stakeholders across the Group, ensuring alignment with the Bank’s environmental and social standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the review and challenge of ESG and Reputational Risk (ESGR) matters, ensuring compliance with the Bank’s environmental and social standards.
• Conduct ESGR due diligence on transactions, including those in non-presence countries and defence goods financing.
• Prepare and review committee papers and summarise key risks and trends in proposed clients and transactions.
• Drive the development and implementation of the Group’s sectoral Position Statements.
• Liaise with front-line teams, particularly CIB and Sustainable Finance, to manage E&S risks.
• Use sector and geographic expertise to drive the E&S client strategy for the Group.

Skills and Experience

• Experience in environmental and/or social risk, reputational, and sustainability risk management.
• Experience in assessing risk and making decisions on clients and transactions.
• Strong understanding of risk management and transforming strategies into policies and standards.
• Knowledge of ESG risk regulatory landscape and ability to adapt to regulatory changes.
• Strong creativity, problem-solving abilities, and Microsoft Office skills.
• Confident, self-motivated, and able to operate in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience within the financial sector a benefit but not essential.

Qualifications

• A degree in Science, Management, Sustainability, Engineering, or a related field specific to environmental and/or social risk, or specific to industries such as Metals & Mining, Chemicals, Manufacturing, Agribusiness, or a similar technical/management study (including country risk, defence goods financing).
• Strong understanding of risk management with a proven track record of transforming risk management strategies into policies and standards.
• Strong knowledge of the ESG risk regulatory landscape and the ability to structure risk management strategies to meet upcoming regulatory changes.
• Strong creativity and problem-solving abilities.
• Confident and self-motivated with a high level of drive.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, including the ability to handle large datasets of internal client information and risk assessment results, as well as PowerPoint and presentation skills.

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.