Sustainable Finance Manager

Apex Group Ltd is seeking a Sustainable Finance Manager in the UK to lead its Sustainable Finance practice. The role involves client engagement, service delivery, and business development, focusing on sustainable finance instruments and regulatory compliance. The manager will oversee a small team and work with clients in private equity and financial services. The position emphasizes innovation in ESG advisory services and product development.
The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world’s largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers.

Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion.

That’s why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply ‘empower’ you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience.

Take the lead and we’ll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.

For our business, for clients, and for you

Sustainable Finance Manager - London

About Holtara

Holtara is the leading worldwide consultancy firm specialising in ESG advisory services and software solutions. We help our clients, mostly Private Equity investors and their portfolio companies, to navigate the complexities of carbon & climate impacts, implement low-carbon practices, and achieve their sustainability goals. We are seeking a highly skilled, experienced and motivated Principal to lead our Global Carbon & Climate practice.

The role

We are looking for a Manager to join our Sustainable Finance practice. As a Manager, you would be responsible for supporting the growth of the practice through client engagement, service delivery, new product development and business development. Commented [DS1]: Perhaps just: Holtara is part of Apex and we have embarked.... Clients would include investors, assets managers and other financial services organizations, with a particular focus on private credit and private equity. Clients will also include portfolio companies across a number of sectors and geographies.

Finally, you would have direct oversight and line management responsibilities for a small team of consultants, located both in London and internationally.

Responsibilities
• Design and develop sustainable finance instruments: Work with clients, including sponsors, lenders and their portcos, to structure sustainable finance instruments, including sustainability-linked loans and bonds, green loans and bonds, and social instruments.
• Provide advice on regulatory compliance: support clients with designing investment strategies that align with regulatory instruments such as SDR, SFDR, the EU Green Taxonomy, and other relevant climate regulation and disclosure standards.
• Support Holtara thought leadership and innovation: keep abreast of ESG market development, authoring short reports and blogs on key market trends, and working to spot developments that might be relevant for our clients
• Develop new products and services: work with the broader Holtara advisory and software teams to develop new products and services to support clients with further integrating sustainable finance priorities in their practice and creating value from ESG investments
• Own client relationships: act as the primary contact point for senior clients, both during project delivery as well as continuously to ensure their priorities are met and emerging needs addressed
• Support business development efforts: work closely with the sales team to maintain a grow a pipeline of sustainable finance opportunities and onboarding new clients
• Manage junior consultants: provide management support, coaching and supervision to junior consultants and implementation specialists both in the UK and internationally

Skills & Experience
• Educated to master level, ideally with a specialisation in finance, business, economics or closely related field
• At least 5 years of previous working experience, ideally for a financial institution (e.g. in asset management, private equity, private credit, banking, venture capital or impact investment) or financial advisory business, with a strong understanding of the trends and developments in ESG, sustainable and climate finance.
• Familiarity with the relevant organisations and frameworks active in the sustainable finance space (Green Loan Principles, Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles, Climate Bonds Initiative, etc.)
• Strong critical thinking skills to analyse complex situations and develop creative solutions
• Strong team player and experience with managing and coaching junior team members

Holtara & Apex Group

Our team consists of approximately 150 people from various academic backgrounds – all driven by the aim to make real impact. Our team is based in Amsterdam, London, Madrid, Valencia New York, Bangalore, Mumbai and ever expanding. Holtara is part of Apex Group and was formed as the ESG and sustainability brand of services. We have embarked on an exciting journey of growth: gaining international ground (with offices across Europe and North America), developing new products, and expanding our team – and we would very much like you to be part of that!

Diversity

At Holtara, we recognize that diversity makes for good business as it stimulates more ideas, opinions and perspectives. We are committed to the maintenance of a professional inclusive environment that recruits, retains, develops, remunerates, and promotes all of our people. We embrace diversity as fundamental to the promotion of our company’s values and understand that diversity and inclusion has an invaluable influence on Holtara and all that we aspire to be.

What Do We Stand For

Our current economic system has brought unprecedented levels of welfare and prosperity. Yet it is clear to all of us that the ways we produce, consume and finance will have to change. At Holtara, we believe that investors play an important role in this transition. First, to better understand the impacts of their investments on climate change, ecosystems, and society. Second, to challenge their investments to reduce these impacts, but also to capture the opportunities that the sustainability transition provides.

Disclaimer: Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Apex operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our exclusive recruitment partners.