Company: Tier-1 Advisory Firm
Location: London, United Kingdom
Job Title: Senior Director Green Finance
Our client is seeking a highly motivated and talented individual to fill the role of Senior Director, responsible for the management of the Green Finance and TCFD service line.
This position offers a very exciting opportunity to engage with clients and internal teams on a broad spectrum of sustainability services, and ultimately drive significant positive environmental and social impact.
Passion and a determination to deliver excellence are essential qualities as is a commercially astute and innovative approach to delivering client solutions.
Essential Duties
- Accountable for the development and delivery Green Finance and TCFD specialist service offerings covering:
- Debt client services
- Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation Offerings
- TCFD consultancy
- Physical climate risk.
- Responsible for supporting development of company-wide consultancy approaches to SFDR and TCFD (delivered through wider consulting teams as base-level services).
- Involved in direct engagement with clients to evolve their investment processes to fully integrate ESG considerations (the appointee has delegated control over level of engagement).
- Engagement in business development activities towards expansion of existing client work as well as new client engagement.
- A key consultee in the development of new products and services, and continual evolution of the firm through direct involvement with the Product Team.
- A member of the strategic consulting leadership team.
Essential Skills and Requirements
The right candidate must have the following essential skills:
- Knowledge of investment sector, preferably in real estate sector.
- Expert or developing expertise in real estate investment with expertise in and/or a passion for sustainability issues and their application to real estate investment.
- Proven client relationship management and stakeholder management (internal and external) skills.
- Commercial acumen (monitoring budgets, achieving target profitability/margin).
- Passion for furthering the sustainability agenda.
- Understanding of managing programmes, competing priorities and multiple projects.
- Ability to transform complex sector-specific language into everyday terms and concepts.
- Strong presentation skills to a range commercial client audiences.
- Proven business development skills.
- Highly articulate and numerate with clear, highly developed communication skills.
- Solid proven people management skills.
- Leadership skills with the ability to set up, recruit and lead a local team, including day-to-day business practicalities of running an entity.
- Team player.
- Confortable under pressure.
Desirable Skills and Requirements
- Experience of managing stakeholders.
- Knowledge of the built environment, preferably commercial real estate investment management and finance.
- Environmental and energy audit experience for commercial buildings.
- Business development experience.
- Familiarity with TCFD, net zero carbon, EU SFDR, GRESB, BREEAM In Use, Fitwel or WELL certification, environmental data and environmental legislation.
- Degree or Masters in ESG related subject would be welcomed but is not expected.
- Likewise, membership of a recognised professional body (e.g. Chartered Environmentalist) would be welcomed.
Benefits to the successfull candidate
- Opportunity to be part of a leading ESG Real Estate team, and to play a pivotal role in the ongoing development of the UK business.
- Competitive salary based on level of skill and reviewed annually in line with performance.
- Attractive bonus structure.
- Flexible working hours.
- Remote/home working in agreement with line manager.
- Two days per year to volunteer for charity.
- Excellent ongoing professional development support.