Sumitomo Mitsui Banking - Vice President/Director - Sustainability Solutions

Business Development:

- Ensure deal alignment with market leading industry practices, internal policies, thresholds

- Proactively collaborate with internal relationship managers, product teams, senior management including investee bank partners to advance SMBCs position in the sustainable

finance market

- Shape and advance the banks sustainable finance/ solution product offering together with adjacent product teams and in line with customer appetite Collaborate closely with relationship

managers across geographies to develop targeted and customer-centric sustainability solutions

- Proactive in arranging client meetings, workshops, travel to pursue opportunities

Strategic and Operational Management:

- Provide technical contribution to process improvements in the banks evolving ESG policies, risk management and disclosures

- Supervise the teams data management, commercial progress and management reporting

- Collaborate smoothly with related departments globally and in 1st, 2nd, 3rd Line of Defense roles

Thought Leadership:

- Form partnerships with strategic industry players, represent the bank to contribute to industry sustainability workstreams in the region.

- Write publications, enable the team to contribute to publications on thematic sustainability and sustainable finance topics.

Key Attributes and Skills:

- Deep practical knowledge of sustainable finance market standards and taxonomies. Proven financial product knowledge, sales and relationship management skills. Confident, articulate and structured communicator both in small and large group settings

- Highly technical and meticulous presentation development capabilities

- High attention to detail and skilled in managing data and proficient in Microsoft Excel

- Comfortable navigating, extracting and challenging 3rd party ESG and financial data tools

- Experience leveraging multiple news and data sources to shape strategies and client solutions

- Versed in prevailing climate pathways, scenarios, industry frameworks and ESG models

- Requires strong technical judgement to support team navigate deal opportunities in a quickly evolving landscape, mitigating greenwashing and reputational risks. Flexible and open to adapting new approaches and strategies

- Willing to understand and quickly adapt to internal bank level policies and systems

- Highly self-aware and capable of managing workload and deliverables with minimal supervision

- Organised and structured in managing competing priorities with sound judgement

- Proactive in soliciting feedback and shaping improvements at a personal and team level

- Ideally, possesses academic and/or research experience in sustainability/sustainable finance

- Experience managing multiple projects across different jurisdictions with diverse stakeholders simultaneously

- Culturally aware and works well in diverse work environments, experience in Japanese work environment desired