Risk Reporting and Monitoring Specialist ESG at RMB - Rand Merchant Bank

Job Description

• To provide second line oversight of the organization’s climate risk profile, through the co-ordination of the organization’s climate risk processes and reporting on ESG and climate risk matters.
• To add value and expertise regarding climate and sensitive industry policies.
• Support key and strategic ESG and Sustainable Finance counterparts and teams, aligning their dedicated portfolios with the organization’s risk profile and leading industry practice.
• Maintain the ESG risk operating standard, by ensuring that ensuring all plans are repeatable and sustainable. 
• Develop and maintain models used in ESG risk, including climate risk stress testing models, and financed emissions calculations, with reference to the sourcing, cleaning, analysis, and integration, and reporting of multi-source data across multi-source data sets. 
• Engage in the governance processes and reporting activities for the function, including the co-ordination, preparation and presentation of reports to organizational and Group committees, and coordinate the feedback and response thereto.
• Monitor emerging standards and legislation to ensure compliance with the latest requirements for the organization and co-ordinate responses and engagements with regulators accordingly.
• Engage with BU’s and stakeholders across the organization and Group to facilitate implementation of the organizational ESG risk management process.
• Provide high quality reports to internal governance committees and in public reports externally.
• Develop innovated service delivery models and frameworks that guide the team’s service undertaking and value proposition, i.e., cutting-edge methodologies, local and international best practice.
• Participate in industry initiatives and programs to gain knowledge and transfer and assist in the implementation and development of best practice.
• Ensure effective analysis of data for identification of opportunities for efficiencies and growth in business and integrate business information, and compare, analyze and produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
• Facilitate the implementation of relevant policies, governance and practice standards across the business and critically review risk rating, root causes, action plans, and the adequacy of actions to close the findings on a timely basis. 
• Prepare high-risk themes for monitoring based on legislation, frameworks, policies, minimum standards and guidance notes.
• Guide documentary interpretation, and explanation/ presentation of methodology and results to all relevant Business, Compliance, Risk and Audit stakeholders.
• Collaborate with all key stakeholders across all three lines of defense, and importantly ensuring that the first line of defense receive advisory on the risks that are identified and assessed through the risk assessment process. 
• Maintain knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and internal compliance procedures and requirements. 
• Monitor compliance in terms of systems and procedures as laid out by organization and review in response to audit findings and changes. 
• Co-ordinate the response to inspections and request for comments by regulators, requesting information from segments, evaluating and assessing segment feedback, submitting to regulators and coordinating presentations.
• Draw on knowledge and experience to identify, investigate and solve complex business problems, and in doing so develop new solutions or enhancements and propose recommendations to business. 
• Participate and contribute to a development culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends, and ideas are actively shared.