AVP, Sustainability Solutions Group, Corporate Banking

Job Responsibilities

The candidate will support sustainable finance business development efforts targeting our clients in APAC. Key responsibilities include:

• Drive SMBC’s growth in the sustainable finance market to deepen our country and sector level expertise and support for customers
• Lead initiatives which involves standard developments by conducting research, collecting, and analyzing information and share those knowledge and insights with clients and internal stakeholders
• Proactively expands knowledge in various sustainability areas to identify and advance new product opportunities
• Develop new opportunities across emerging sustainable finance products, flavours and markets
• Support on the job training and development of team analysts
• Contribute to adjacent and complementary initiatives for our external marketing, capacity building and ESG risk management efforts

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• Financial markets experience required, ideally sustainability related
• Up to 4 years of working experience research in the fields of sustainable finance, sustainability, climate change, decarbonization strategies, low-carbon transition tech, etc.
• Demonstrated track record in sustainable finance deal origination and/or sustainability research and analysis
• Demonstrated experience in deal pitching, targeted materials development and customer engagement
• Demonstrated contribution to institutional or industry initiatives in sustainability, including project management capabilities
• Experience in evaluation energy transition technologies, transition finance preferred
• Strong influencing, collaboration and stakeholder management qualities, required across multiple departments and countries
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Ability to communicate in a clear and structured manner
• Desirable experience - Public speaking, carbon markets, nature finance
• Highly self-motivated and strong interpersonal skills, genuine passion for advancing sustainability efforts
• Demonstrates critical thinking and challenging status quo with articulation of clear objectives, benefits