UK Risk & Controls – Climate & ESG Lead, UK Legal Entities

The UK Legal entities Control team are a 1st line team responsible for ensuring a sound UK control environment by means of establishing tools to legitimately assess and report on legal entity risk profiles and ensuring that effective controls are in place to mitigate and manage those risks.

The team risk profiles the UK legal entities across the full risk taxonomy and reports on control environment factors and risk measures to UK boards, management committees and regulators.

The Risk & Controls team also engages across businesses and functions to coordinate and monitor ongoing control enhancement activities which includes leading climate, and broader ESG-related initiatives, including Modern Slavery. We develop and maintain action plans and coordinate UK legal entity commitments on climate and ESG activities, and work closely in conjunction with the second and third line functions.

The position is at senior vice president level and will support the UK Risk & Control team leadership and the UK Boards and management teams to define and deliver the UK entities climate and ESG requirements. This will include assessing businesses and client considerations while ensuring alignment to evolving regulatory requirements, specifically in relation to the climate risk implementation agenda for the UK. The role will work closely with business and functions partners, both in the UK and globally.

Responsibilities:

• Lead UK’s climate- and ESG-related initiatives and project plan.
• Coordinate the first line climate and ESG risk identification activities for the UK legal entities.
• Coordinate with the Group, Europe and MEA and align efforts for a consistent strategy across clusters and globally.
• Develop, maintain, and track UK legal entities action plan and deadlines, both regulatory and internal, related to climate and ESG.
• Execute on UK legal entities’ Climate Strategy and provide input to UK legal entities Strategic Planning Documents, ICAAP and Stress Testing.
• Drive consideration of climate and ESG risks within the business planning, including development of metrics/ KRIs, and monitor progress against the committed actions by the businesses and functions.
• Work with the businesses to develop client strategy and credit risk management methodology prepare UK legal entities data infrastructure (with O&T, Risk and the businesses) to tag and hold relevant  climate risk client data.
• Chair ESG-related governance meetings such as UK Climate Risk Working Group and UK Modern Slavery Working Group.
• Responsible for the completion of milestones and action plans as well as regulatory deliverables and deadlines.
• Report updates including escalations to UK legal entity governance meetings such as Risk Management Committee and UK Executive Committee.
• Work with the relevant Boards of Directors on climate-related topics.
• Enhance policies as they relate to climate-related matters.
• Track tasks and responsibilities for the three lines of defence. 
• Work with Businesses, Finance, Compliance and Risk to explain and train on heightened climate risk analytical demands.
• Work with business partners to track and share climate risk / ESG client engagement and activity.
• Drive input and presentations for scheduled UK Legal Entity Boards and regulatory engagement meetings on climate risk.
• Track and hold all climate risk input for UK legal entities, across regulatory change, disclosure, banking and risk.
• Work closely with all stakeholders involved, including businesses, Functions, Regions and countries, Boards, and regulators.

Qualifications and Skills Required:

This role brings with it significant exposure to multiple businesses, function leads and senior legal entity stakeholders. We are therefore seeking individuals with the following attributes

• Strong leadership skills.
• Experience and ability to run cross-enterprise projects/programmes with proven outcomes.
• Strong ability to run with initiatives and strong problem-solving skills.
• Experienced in stakeholder management.
• Team player, able to develop relationships with peers across various functions.
• Analytical, ability to analyse data and evolving regulatory framework.
• Data management, ability to work with Climate Risk, ESG/ Sustainability, O&T, Risk and Banking partners to adapt data to UK legal entity needs
• Intellectually curious, keen to understand climate risk field.
• Self-starter, able to navigate Citi (with senior guidance)
• Communication, good writing skills including excellent oral and written communication skills and ability to facilitate discussions.
• Energy and enthusiasm, affinity with the topic.
• Ability to connect with climate risk peers inside Citi (GPA, front line teams etc.) and externally (working level peers).
• Ability to prioritize is key as is ability to juggle several tasks at once.
• Ability to quickly grasp and master new concepts / requirements and related product / functional knowledge.
• Willingness to challenge the process and seek out answers.
• Ability to work independently, multi-task, and take ownership of various parts of a project or initiative.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Master’s degree.

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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