Lead: Climate Risk

**Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact
**REQ 114504- Tshegofatso Semenya

**Cluster
**Group Strategic Risk

**Career Stream**

Enterprise Wide Risk Management

**Leadership Pipeline**

Manage Managers

**Position**

Lead: Climate Risk

**Job Purpose**
- To actively manage the Climate-related risks (physical, transition and liability risks) and opportunities across the Bank and Group by providing sound leadership, effective effort, advice, support, monitoring and oversight within the risk governance framework and processes to embed appropriate alignment to global best practices including, inter alia, the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD).
- The Lead must manage the integration of Climate Risk into the Traditional Risk types (i.e., credit risk, operational risk, market risk, liquidity risk, funding risk, capital risk etc.) and must assist in leading Nedbank Climate-related Risks, including climate specialist technical knowledge and experience, and the transition engagement with various individuals across Nedbank.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide support in:

- Developing, integrating, monitoring and reporting on the Climate Risk Management Framework.
- Coordinating the revision of relevant Climate Risk Management Framework, risk appetite statement, policies and processes etc.
- Developing, updating and roll-out of Group Policies and Guidelines aligned to the Group’s purpose-led strategy.
- Excellent research and analysis skills, and ability to integrate substantial quantities of complex and constantly evolving information of climate change on individual assets, portfolios, markets etc.
- Keep abreast of regulatory and industry trends in the area of energy and climate change to develop strategies to ensure Climate-relate risks are appropriately address these trends.
- Identify energy and climate change risks, opportunities and trends and advise the senior management on how to manage these proactively.
- Build and maintain strategic relationships and partnering with external providers, suppliers and regulators to ensure the seamless delivery of objectives.
- Understand the link between Climate-related Risks and financial performance and Climate’s interrelationship and impact with Environment, Social and Governance (ESG).
- Actively involved in the coordination of the Climate Task team. The Climate Task Team is representation across the enterprise various members from Balance Sheet Management (BSM), Group Strategy as well as the Heads of Business Clusters’ Risk Management, Group Finance, Investor Relations, Group Strategy: Sustainability, Group Risk representatives and Group Stress Testing. The role of the Nedbank Climate Task Group is to identify, measure, monitor, manage and report on Nedbank’s qualitative and quantitative impact and how climate-related risks and opportunities.
- Build and deliver Climate-related Risks identification and management training and education programs to staff to promote climate risk management knowledge. Manage all aspects of Climate-related risks awareness across the enterprise wide (including all subsidiaries) to ensure enhanced risk communication and collaboration.
- Ability to engage professionally and confidently with a wide variety of stakeholders in the private, public and non-profit sectors, and to build partnerships and manage collaborative initiatives.
- As and when required, lead or coordinate a team responsible for providing risk advice in the area of climate risk.
- Play a lead role in ensuring regulated entities manage the financial risks of a changing climate.
- Understanding of responsible investment, including regulatory regimes applicable to the integration of environmental, social and governance factors into investment decision-making; and of the intersection between climate risk and financial markets.
- Extensive experience in risk management practices, with a focus on climate-related risk, along with a sound understanding of how financial institutions operate and the key risks they face.
- Developing a communication process to report to the various forums on climate change related risks.
- Establishing processes to monitor and disseminate transition/physical risk management market standards and market expectations across the bank.
- Documenting and communicating governance associated with climate change risk management.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
- Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree

Preferred Qualification
- Hons in Business Commerce or Environmental Science or Science (Geography) or Sustainability or Engineering degree

Minimum Experience Level
- 10 years financial services experience in a senior position
- Climate and climate risk management experience
- Significant risk management experience in banking across the various Risk types and the ability to integrate the various risk types with specific reference to Climate-related risks
- Banking experience, inclusive of client facing experience a