Associate Director, Climate Transition

End Date

Friday 07 March 2025

Salary Range

£0 - £0

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Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Associate Director - Climate Transition
LOCATION(S): London
HOURS: Full Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, in the office.

About this opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Director, Climate Transition to join our dedicated Sustainability & Client Advisory (‘S&CA’) team. We're committed to supporting and accelerating our own, our colleagues’ and our clients’ transition to a more sustainable economy. Our ambition is to deliver the best quality sustainability support and ESG financing to our clients.

Your roles and responsibilities will include:

• Assess credibility of client transition plans against sustainability frameworks, climate/ESG policy and regulation, and net zero technology developments.
• Effectively summarise sector trends, Insights, enablers, and barriers to ensure that transition assessment outcomes are understood and appropriate managed to drive impact.
• Conduct in-depth data analysis and management to support colleagues in research, upskilling and assessment for climate & sustainability strategic advisory and net zero origination.
• Support building out specialist technical capability in CIB in response to the UK’s net zero transition, delivering on the Bank’s ambition to reduce our financed emissions 50% by 2030.
• Enable delivery of NZBA sector targets & transition strategies, formulating concise reviews and clearly articulated findings on ESG market & sector developments.
• Support technical delivery of Net Zero Origination, client financing transactions and advisory mandates.
• Promote and broaden our ESG technical capability, in delivering thought leadership on the emerging strategic sustainability challenges and opportunities facing our clients.
• Ensure effective governance capability having confidence to challenge constructively and work with any local regulators in an open and collaborative manner.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What we need from you?

• Demonstrate an understanding of cross-sector trends in Sustainability, ESG and climate change, and be able to optimally disseminate information to clients and key partners.
• Knowledge of the ESG reporting landscape for Corporates & Financial Institutions.
• Broad understanding of key frameworks and standards in the sustainability sphere, including climate policy, net zero transition technologies and market / scenario analysis.
• Track record of strategic capability in ESG, climate and sustainability, coupled with technical proficiency in data analysis and management including Excel and PowerBI.
• An enthusiasm for delivering a Just Transition for LBG and our clients with a deep understanding of the trade-offs and consequences If not achieved.

About working for us!

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.