Senior Manager Sustainable Finance Corporate

KCB Group is seeking a Senior Manager for Sustainable Finance Corporate in Kenya. The role involves implementing green finance strategies, growing the green lending book, developing sustainable finance products, and managing climate-related risks. Responsibilities include identifying fundraising opportunities, facilitating product commercialization, conducting ESG analysis, and training internal stakeholders. The candidate should have a relevant degree and significant experience in corporate banking and sustainable finance.
• Implement the bank’s corporate banking green finance strategy and work with other stakeholders in build a centre of excellence for corporate banking green finance.
• Work with Corporate banking sectors leads and relationship managers to grow the green lending book for corporate banking.
• Deliver an innovative sustainable finance products and service suite to meet needs of corporate banking customer and achieve business objectives.
• Identify new fundraising opportunities for climate funding, trends in climate finance and emerging donor interests within the region, and work with other internal stakeholders in the conversion of these opportunities into value for the Bank’s corporate customers.
• Facilitate the commercialization of sustainable finance products in liaison with product teams, business units, cross functional teams, and subsidiaries.
• Serve as first line of defence in the management of climate related risks across the green lending portfolio within the legal, regulatory and Group compliance frameworks.
• Work closely with Group corporate affairs team to build internal / external stakeholder strategy promoting green lending while ensuring consistent messaging to internal and wider market.
• Develop a deep understanding of sustainable finance ecosystems, mapping out opportunities for green finance and working with commercial teams on opportunity maximisation.
• Work with corporate regulatory affairs in conduct ESG analysis for corporate clients as well as ESDD for corporate facilities in line with Group policy and best practises.
• Align the corporate banking sustainable finance portfolio to best practise requirements including to the requirements of the various partnering development finance institutions.
• Capacity development of corporate banking relationship managers, credit teams and other internal stakeholders involved in the design and delivery of sustainable finance solutions to corporate customers.
• Work with the Risk, Credit and commercial teams in monitoring the performance of the green lending portfolio to keep it within the approved risk appetite for the Bank, including recovery of any nonperforming green assets.
• Track the performance of the green lending portfolio against establish performance metrics and take appropriate interventions in collaboration of corporate relationship managers and sector heads.
• Prepare and provide pertinent performance reports of the corporate banking green finance portfolio to senior management to guide business strategic actions.

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Specific Field or Qualification
Need Type
[1]Education Bachelor’s degreeBachelor’s degree in any relevant area RQProfessional QualificationsAny relevant fieldAA Master’s degreeAny relevant fieldAA

[1] Need Types are: RQ = Required, AA = Added Advantage
Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required 6

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Minimum No of Years
Need Type[1]Corporate Banking Relationship Management6ESSustainable Lending/Green Finance for Corporates3ESClimate Fundraising3ESClimate Project Management2ESStakeholder management5ESDonor Management2DEESG and Sustainability Reporting2ESCorporate Credit Management2DE

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Need Types are: ES = Essential, DE = Desirable but not Essential