Job Description

We are seeking applicants to join our growing financial risk management and sustainable finance teams. As well as understanding the challenge that climate change poses to business, you should have a passion for data-driven decision making and/or a risk modelling background, and experience of communicating complex problems to technical and non-technical audiences. To support our growing climate risk practice, we are seeking additional skilled resource; an integral component of our ability to meet client demand and deliver differentiated services in this area.

Working within the Financial Risk Management practice, but jointly with our Sustainability Services practice, this role will provide additional financial services clients with deep climate risk and climate finance expertise.

We support a wide range of UK and global clients on their most pressing climate risk & sustainable finance challenges and opportunities through a spectrum of offerings ranging from climate risk strategy to risk modelling to independent assurance on green finance.

You will be involved with:

• Creatively applying your in-depth knowledge of credit (and possibly market) risk modelling to support clients and others in your team as company rolls out its climate risk advisory offerings and products;
• Developing fluent understanding of current climate risk and decarburization themes, tracking recent developments in climate impact science;
• Delivering high-quality, detailed climate risk assessments, developing adaptation and mitigation strategies for financial services clients;
• Delivering projects to integrate ESG within clients’ lending business through amongst others, innovative product design, new underwriting policies and the implementation of target operating models related to green taxonomies
• Developing strong relationships with a range of internal stakeholders;
• Educating and advising both internal and external stakeholders on climate change, particularly in translating risk modelling developments into understandable and actionable insight and becoming their ‘trusted’ adviser;
• Working alongside other climate change & sustainability experts at Deloitte and on client engagements to provide expert insight on interactions between climate risk, sustainable finance and other sustainability areas;
• Providing leadership and mentoring to junior team members and associate resources;
• Acting in the capacity of ‘engagement manager’, taking ownership for all aspects of engagement delivery from scoping, programme and team selection through to delivery, risk & quality management and budgetary control;
• Leveraging your growing subject matter knowledge to lead new business development opportunities, and further support company’s sustainable finance campaign.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

To qualify for the role you must have:

• Strong numerical background in statistics, actuarial science (e.g. catastrophe modelling), economic modelling, engineering, physics, geophysical analysis, directly in climate science or a similar discipline;
• Experience in risk assessment, particularly quantitative approaches to measuring risk and/or quantitative scenario analysis in a banking context;
• Technical knowledge of net zero strategies and decarburization planning; OR deep subject matter expertise, such as in climate science, decarburization, energy transition, or catastrophe modelling;
• Demonstrable knowledge of climate change and ESG regulatory landscape (including EU taxonomy) and thinking on government policy with its implications for financial services;
• Strong skills in identifying, establishing and maintaining relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong skills in communicating technical subject matter to non-technical audiences;
• Some experience in professional services / consultancy or other stakeholder management skills;
• Strong experience with managing people, projects and budgets end-to-end;
• Excellent written and oral business communication skills