Climate Change & Sustainability Services - Sustainable Finance (Transition Risk) Associate

The Climate Change & Sustainability Services - Sustainable Finance (Transition Risk) Associate role at a confidential company in the Philippines involves advising organizations on sustainable finance and transition risk management. Responsibilities include developing sustainability strategies, ensuring compliance with frameworks, assessing opportunities, and providing assurance on sustainability disclosures. The position requires a strong understanding of sustainability concepts and their implications for business operations and risk management.
About the job

With the challenges that global warning poses, Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCaSS) help organizations address environmental challenges and integrate sustainable practices into companies' operations. CCaSS offers services that focus on reducing environmental impact, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enhancing long-term business resilience.

Climate change and sustainability and its environmental, social, and economic impact continue to rise on the agendas of governments and organizations around the world. Organizations not only face regulatory impacts, but also expectations for action from a wide range of stakeholders, including employees, investors, lenders, customers, and suppliers.

At SGV, we help organizations identify, develop, and deliver strategies that address risk and opportunity while measuring effectiveness. Our Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCaSS) team is growing.

Globally, we are leading advisors in the areas of:
• Non-financial reporting advisory and assurance
• Climate change and energy
• Sustainability advisory and assurance
• Social impact advisory
• Environment, health, and safety

Job Summary

As a Sustainable Finance / Transition Risk Associate in our Climate Change and Sustainability Services team, you will play a pivotal role in helping organizations navigate the complex landscape of sustainable finance and transition risk management. Your primary focus will be on assessing and advising clients on the financial implications of climate change and sustainability initiatives, ensuring they are equipped to make informed decisions that align with their strategic goals.

Your key responsibilities

As a Sustainable Finance Associate, you will:
• Assist clients in developing strategies to embed sustainability in their business operations, risk management, systems, and processes.
• Advise and assist clients on their compliance to local and international frameworks on sustainability-related disclosures (e.g., ISSB, TCFD), including on sustainability strategies, climate risks, carbon emissions, governance, and social indicators.
• Help clients assess and evaluate sustainability-related opportunities related to their business strategy, products, or services, such as related to decarbonization, climate risks, sustainability disclosures, environment and socials risks, environmental safety, etc.
• Contribute to providing independent assurance of a client's sustainability disclosures by checking the accuracy of reported data and statements in its sustainability report.
• Gain an understanding of the political, regulatory, market and community drivers related to sustainability and identify how they might impact a client
• Develop and continually improve understanding of sustainability concepts such as climate-related physical and transition risks, climate change mitigation and adaptation, decarbonization, nature-based solutions, sustainability disclosures, and regulation, greenhouse gas accounting, among others.
• Contribute and support activities towards the sustained prominence of SGV's climate change and sustainability services practice.

Skills and attributes for success
• Demonstrate and apply a thorough understanding of sustainability in business operations, risk management, systems, and processes.
• Proficient in analytics tools like SQL, Stata, Power BI, etc.
• Passionate in helping businesses and the country become more sustainable.
• Able to monitor a large amount of time sensitive and complex client communications.
• Work well in a team environment and can also work independently.
• Excellent communication, research, and time management skills – must be able to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively.
• Able to think creatively and independently solve problems, and escalate to appropriate groups/individuals when required.

To qualify for the role, you must have:
• A Bachelor's degree in the following fields (or related disciplines): Management, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Applied Finance/Finance, Applied Economics/Economics, Environmental Sciences, Development Studies
• Experience in quantitative methods, statistical analysis/econometrics, and/or data visualization using various tools, e.g., R, Python, SQL, Stata, SAS; MatLab; PowerBI

Ideally, you'll also have:
• Preferably with 1-3 years professional experience in finance, economics/macroeconomics, risk management, development sector, sustainability, climate change, banking or other related functions.
• Relevant certifications such as GARP SCR
• Energy sector, systems modelling, and renewable energy/green technologies experience is additionally preferred.

What we offer:

SGV offers a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. We are committed to being an inclusive employer and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. Plus, we offer:
• Continuous learning: You'll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We'll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We'll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You'll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

SGV | Building a better working world.

SGV exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.

Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, SGV teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.