Associate, Sustainable Finance

Job ID: 40052

Location: Mumbai, IN

Area of interest: Corporate & Commercial Banking

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 12 Sept 2025

**Job Summary**
- Work with the Head of Sustainable Finance (“SF”), South Asia, and the coverage teams, in addition to other team members to drive origination, develop strong client relationships and be seen as an expert in Sustainable Finance by internal and external stakeholders. Our Sustainable Finance team serves as a centre of expertise on a broad set of ESG topics, providing thought leadership, strategic advice and transaction support for SCB’s clients. The group sits within the Commercial, Corporate and Institutional Bank under a Chief Sustainability Officer team, and works with product and coverage teams to identify and deliver on ESG-related advisory and product opportunities.- The Role described below is for an experienced and self-driven individual who will be responsible for the regional business growth and development.**Key Responsibilities**

**Strategy**
- Work on the development and implementation of client strategies for Sustainable Finance products and solutions
- Work closely with the Sf collegues and coverage partners to develop and execute a plan that would make SCB the Bank best known for Sustainable Finance by our clients and other stakeholders.
- Work closely with the wider SF team, coverage and product partners to develop an understanding of the competitive landscape and identify prospective partners who can address customer needs and accelerate growth
- Work closely with group corporate affairs to build a regional internal / external stakeholder strategy promoting sustainability, ensuring a consistent messaging internally and to the wider market

**Business**
- Drive new sustainable finance transactions and origination across all products, including loans, bonds, trade, derivatives and deposits
- Have a good understanding of the client base and proactively build pipeline, identifying core industries and opportunities
- Be able to work with relationship teams to develop client transition plans that encourage decarbonisation
- Proactively remain abreast of regional, global, and industry developments, assess implications and align and develop Bank relevant initiatives across businesses in response to regulatory and industry developments in sustainable finance
- Have an understanding of ESG ratings and benchmarking analysis for corporates
- Develop Sector thematics that describe sustainable finance structure alternatives
- Develop opportunities through attendance at key Industry events as necessary.

**People & Talent**
- Proactively manage the designated Sustainable Finance client and product portfolio to ensure risks are appropriately identified and managed.
- Maintain close ties with key internal stakeholders e.g. Financial Markets, Transaction Banking, Corporate Finance, Risk, Country CEOs, etc.

**Risk Management**
- Build and maintain an understanding of environmental and social risks across industry classes
- Safeguard the bank against reputational and greenwashing risk damages but proactively develop sustainable finance structures that are in line with global industry best practices
- Encourage good and proactive management of environmental, social, regulatory, reputational and ethical risks governance across all areas of the business
- Take the initiative regarding regulatory, reputational and ethical matters, and proactively provide advice to clients.

**Governance**
- Ensure compliance with the sustainable finance governance structure and environmental and social risk management policies. Challenge improvement of these
- Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
- The role might require CP certification in which case the employee will be required to pass any stipulated external certifications as deemed fit by SCB.

**Regulatory & Business Conduct**
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
- 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.
- Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] *
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
- Adhere to local and international regulator-prescribed responsibilities and policies.

**Key stakeholders**
- Regional management, product, and client teams
- Global and regional heads of Sustainable Finance and regional / country leads
- Global Head of Environmental Social Risk Management
- Global Sustainable Finance Team
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