Job Description
Vice President, Climate Risk-()
Job
:Risk
Primary Location
:Asia-India-Bangalore
Schedule
:Full-time
Employee Status
:Permanent
Posting Date
:07/Mar/2026, 12:2+:55 AM
Unposting Date
:Ongoing
Role Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
• Contribute to overall governance mechanisms (including committee oversight, monthly workplan and regulatory updates) for Climate Risk management
• Provide support on organising the Climate Risk Management Committee ("CRMC") meetings and updates to the Rolling Agenda and Terms of Reference
• Collaborate with stakeholders to prepare the CRMC deck, review papers for adherence to Beagle 2.0 principles and ensure timely circulation of deck
• Prepare CRMC minutes of meeting and ensure timely circulation of minutes
• Prepare CRMC summary report for submission to the Committee Governance team
• Conduct the annual Committee Effectiveness Review ("CER") to ensure we meet the high standards for Risk Committee governance
• Work with team members across Group Climate Risk Management and Risk Change teams to prepare and consolidate the monthly workplan updates
• Drive high standards of the monthly workplan decks, to be in line with Beagle 2.0 principles
• Provide support on the submission of regulatory updates. This includes the preparation and consolidation of updates, analysis, as well as all relevant artefacts and working files.
• Ensure that outcomes delivered, including necessary controls are fit for purpose and that the Bank's risk governance disciplines are adhered with.
• Contribute to the broader Climate Risk team in building out best-in-class 2nd LOD Climate Risk management capabilities
Business
• Support engagement with the broader Risk function, business lines and other functions on the topic of Climate Risk and drive improvement in governance standards. Broad awareness and understanding of the Bank's business model and risk profile.
Processes
• Provide support on committee governance, preparation and consolidation of respective updates to monitor and improve governance standards for Climate Risk.
Risk Management
• Contribute to the broader Climate Risk team in building out best-in-class 2nd LOD Climate Risk management capabilities. Ensure that risks are properly identified and mitigated, and issues are appropriately escalated.
Governance
• Support overall governance mechanisms (including committee oversight, monthly workplan and regulatory updates) for Climate Risk management. Ensure that outcomes delivered, including necessary controls are fit for purpose and that the Bank's risk governance disciplines are adhered with.
Regulatory & Business Conduct
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key Stakeholders
• The role requires working closely with Committee Governance, Risk Change, Sustainable Finance, Regulatory Liaison teams within the Group. The role holder will also provide support to Members and Agenda invitees of the CRMC.
Our Ideal Candidate
Qualifications
Knowledge/Experience:
• 16-18 years of experience in governance related roles, preferably in Climate Risk
• Familiarity with the increasing regulatory expectations facing banks with respect to climate risk
• Excellent analytical, writing skills and attention to detail
• Experience of liaising across diverse stakeholder groups, including senior managers
Academic and professional background:
• Home and Host Regulatory Framework and Requirements: Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the firm operates
• Good knowledge of banking risk management and standards
• Understanding of Corporate, Institutional, and Commercial & Retail portfolios and products
Interpersonal skills:
• The candidate should be highly-motivated to rapidly advance the firm's plan to establish a comprehensive climate risk management framework against an ambitious timeline.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Analytical and independent thinker.
• Excellent attention to detail and good time management.
• Initiative, creativity and problem solving.
Competencies:
• Self-starter, ability to quickly assimilate and analyse large amounts of information across a variety of topics
• Proven ability to partner and collaborate across an organisation, support facilitation, with the ability to build a strong internal network across all levels of the organisation
Role Specific Competencies
• Manage Risk
• Experience in a financial institution, preferably in roles that involve development and monitoring of policies and frameworks for governance and risk management
• Good understanding of the banking industry regulatory landscape, preferably on Climate Risk
• Ability to engage and collaborate with stakeholders at various levels across functions and geographies.
• Strong communication and project management skills.
• Strong analytical, writing skills and attention to detail.
• Self-motivated person with a high level of personal responsibility, drive, dedication and a desire to excel consistently
• Effective in tracking and reporting progress updates of multiple areas and in highlighting key issues
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:
• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle , continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Be better together , we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
• In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance , with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation , one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.
• Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.
Visit our careers website
Job
:Risk
Primary Location
:Asia-India-Bangalore
Schedule
:Full-time
Employee Status
:Permanent
Posting Date
:07/Mar/2026, 12:2+:55 AM
Unposting Date
:Ongoing
Role Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
• Contribute to overall governance mechanisms (including committee oversight, monthly workplan and regulatory updates) for Climate Risk management
• Provide support on organising the Climate Risk Management Committee ("CRMC") meetings and updates to the Rolling Agenda and Terms of Reference
• Collaborate with stakeholders to prepare the CRMC deck, review papers for adherence to Beagle 2.0 principles and ensure timely circulation of deck
• Prepare CRMC minutes of meeting and ensure timely circulation of minutes
• Prepare CRMC summary report for submission to the Committee Governance team
• Conduct the annual Committee Effectiveness Review ("CER") to ensure we meet the high standards for Risk Committee governance
• Work with team members across Group Climate Risk Management and Risk Change teams to prepare and consolidate the monthly workplan updates
• Drive high standards of the monthly workplan decks, to be in line with Beagle 2.0 principles
• Provide support on the submission of regulatory updates. This includes the preparation and consolidation of updates, analysis, as well as all relevant artefacts and working files.
• Ensure that outcomes delivered, including necessary controls are fit for purpose and that the Bank's risk governance disciplines are adhered with.
• Contribute to the broader Climate Risk team in building out best-in-class 2nd LOD Climate Risk management capabilities
Business
• Support engagement with the broader Risk function, business lines and other functions on the topic of Climate Risk and drive improvement in governance standards. Broad awareness and understanding of the Bank's business model and risk profile.
Processes
• Provide support on committee governance, preparation and consolidation of respective updates to monitor and improve governance standards for Climate Risk.
Risk Management
• Contribute to the broader Climate Risk team in building out best-in-class 2nd LOD Climate Risk management capabilities. Ensure that risks are properly identified and mitigated, and issues are appropriately escalated.
Governance
• Support overall governance mechanisms (including committee oversight, monthly workplan and regulatory updates) for Climate Risk management. Ensure that outcomes delivered, including necessary controls are fit for purpose and that the Bank's risk governance disciplines are adhered with.
Regulatory & Business Conduct
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key Stakeholders
• The role requires working closely with Committee Governance, Risk Change, Sustainable Finance, Regulatory Liaison teams within the Group. The role holder will also provide support to Members and Agenda invitees of the CRMC.
Our Ideal Candidate
Qualifications
Knowledge/Experience:
• 16-18 years of experience in governance related roles, preferably in Climate Risk
• Familiarity with the increasing regulatory expectations facing banks with respect to climate risk
• Excellent analytical, writing skills and attention to detail
• Experience of liaising across diverse stakeholder groups, including senior managers
Academic and professional background:
• Home and Host Regulatory Framework and Requirements: Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the firm operates
• Good knowledge of banking risk management and standards
• Understanding of Corporate, Institutional, and Commercial & Retail portfolios and products
Interpersonal skills:
• The candidate should be highly-motivated to rapidly advance the firm's plan to establish a comprehensive climate risk management framework against an ambitious timeline.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Analytical and independent thinker.
• Excellent attention to detail and good time management.
• Initiative, creativity and problem solving.
Competencies:
• Self-starter, ability to quickly assimilate and analyse large amounts of information across a variety of topics
• Proven ability to partner and collaborate across an organisation, support facilitation, with the ability to build a strong internal network across all levels of the organisation
Role Specific Competencies
• Manage Risk
• Experience in a financial institution, preferably in roles that involve development and monitoring of policies and frameworks for governance and risk management
• Good understanding of the banking industry regulatory landscape, preferably on Climate Risk
• Ability to engage and collaborate with stakeholders at various levels across functions and geographies.
• Strong communication and project management skills.
• Strong analytical, writing skills and attention to detail.
• Self-motivated person with a high level of personal responsibility, drive, dedication and a desire to excel consistently
• Effective in tracking and reporting progress updates of multiple areas and in highlighting key issues
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:
• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle , continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Be better together , we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
• In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance , with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation , one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.
• Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.
Visit our careers website
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Vice President| Climate Risk position is now open for candidates interested in the Bank Jobs sector. This role in Bangalore offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Bank Jobs is a plus.
