Lead - Climate Transition Risk - Investment Bank

Our client is a leading financial services firm with global presence, plan to establish a comprehensive climate risk management framework team, hence keen to hire candidates having experience in climate transition risk scenarios.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Working alongside with Research team to Develop internal climate transition risk scenarios on the variety of models used in the financial and research sectors

- Customize internal transition risk scenarios to help build and evolve the internal climate scenario framework

- Interrogate, assess and choose appropriate models from external parties, including vendors

- Establish requirements and drive firmwide needs for collecting data on transition risk impacts and risk-related scenario analysis

- Interact with central data and modelling teams

ROLE REQUIREMENTS:

- 3+years of experience in quantitative modelling; preferably in transition scenarios

- Familiarity with conventional transition scenario modelling and tools, including Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), Simulation Models and Probabilistic Models

- Strong academic background (PhD is preferable) in a highly quantitative discipline, including economics or maths

- Excellent analytical skills and comfortable working large datasets; expertise in econometrics and other quantitative methods is highly desirable

- Knowledge of climate-related transition risks and the transmission channels through which these can manifest as a risk for financial institutions

- Excellent communication and inter-personal skills

- Strong Analytical and problem solver person.

- Strong stakeholder management skills

- Knowledge of SQL with experience operating in big data environments

- Proficient with coding in various languages; Python/Spark experience a plus