Job description
Your opportunity
Are you an experienced Sustainable Finance professional from a consultancy background looking to use your skills to solve the biggest problem of our generation?
Then we are looking for you! Our growing Sustainable Finance practice is looking for additional management resource in our Insurance sector; an integral component of our ability to meet client demand and deliver differentiated services to our clients.
Working within Sustainability (a practice that operates as part of Deloitte’s Risk Advisory service line), this role will provide additional depth to complement our sustainability specialists in addition to bringing additional breadth to our capabilities.
Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?
For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills,and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of 2 years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.
Your role
We support a wide range of UK and global clients on their most pressing sustainability challenges and opportunities through a spectrum of offerings ranging from strategy design to independent assurance.
As a Senior Manager within Sustainable Finance, you will have responsibility for:
- Leveraging your in-depth knowledge of the insurance sector sustainability landscape to act as a ‘trusted advisor’ to client stakeholders.
- Delivering market shaping outcomes for our clients across our suite of sustainable finance propositions and offerings.
- Acting in the capacity of ‘engagement manager’, taking ownership for all aspects of engagement pursuit and delivery from pitching, scoping, programme and team selection through to delivery, risk and quality management and budgetary control.
- Holding and continuing to develop fluent knowledge of sustainable finance practices in the insurance sector (life and non-life), market developments, regulatory requirements and the competitive landscape.
- Educating and advising both internal and external stakeholders on sustainable finance in
- Providing leadership to junior team members and associate resources.
- Developing strong relationships with internal stakeholders across the firm and acting as a member of the sustainable finance leadership team.
- Broadening relationships beyond insurance clients and working alongside others on all sustainability matters and industries as the team continues to grow.
Your work, your choice
At Deloitte we believe the best impact is the value we add, not the hours we sit at our desk. We carefully consider agile ways of working, both formal and informal, that allow for the best impact for our people and our clients. Please speak to your recruiter about the working pattern that works best for you.
We do encourage careful consideration of agile ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients.
Your professional experience
To qualify for the role you must have:
- Extensive experience within related disciplines
- Experience in professional services / consultancy in an ‘engagement manager’ capacity.
- Evidence of operating at a senior level with strong industry understanding of insurance, particularly consumer/general insurance
- Understanding of ESG issues considered material to financial services
- Understanding of related sustainability directives and regulations i.e. prudential regulations and supervision (ie SS/319), climate stress tests, TCFD, TNFD, EIOPA recommendations, ESG in Solvency II/ORSAs.
- Excellent written and oral business communication skills
- Experience working with insurers on one or all of: non-financial impact measurement methodologies; climate-related risk management; ESG due diligence; integrated ESG risk management; ESG strategies and transition plans; stewardship; product labelling; regulatory preparedness studies; ESG underwriting frameworks; or ESG investment frameworks.
- Evidence of client networking success, proven track record in business development and pipeline building
- A high aptitude for identifying, establishing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders and team members.
- Experience managing others and supporting/mentoring team members.
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