Head of Sustainable Finance KSA

Gulf International Bank


Date: 1 week ago
City: Riyadh
Contract type: Full time
Head of Sustainable Finance KSA 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 / introductions & referrals of MNC clients in in the region across GIB group.

Skills


  • Client focused with ability to establish and leveraging high impact relationships and presenting 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.
Job ID 1100061832

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