Manager - Esg Climate Risk - Toronto, Canada - EY

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Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

At EY, you'll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you.

And we're counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

We help the world's largest financial institutions navigate the intricate regulatory environment to effectively manage and assess capital in support of their ongoing strategies.

More than ever, financial institutions are investing in enhancing their capital management capabilities to make better business decisions, presenting us with the unique opportunity to rally together to solve our clients' most complex challenges.

The opportunity

EY's Financial Services Risk Management (FSRM) practice is a consulting unit that provides risk management support to banks, insurers and asset managers.

Our team includes individuals who have industry, client and product knowledge as well as quantitative, regulatory, project management and technology professionals.

We are seeking several ESG/Climate Risk Modeling Manager with minimum 3-5 years experience in ESG Frameworks / Climate Risk Modeling, Credit Risk Modeling experience acquired in the banking industry or in consulting services to join our team.

They will be based in our Montreal (must be able to work in French and English) or Toronto office.

Your key responsibilities

Developing materials, tools and methodologies to support our climate risk thought leadership for use in client engagements, conferences and meetings.

Work across and be the day-to-day lead on multiple engagements, delivering high quality climate risk support to our banking clients, including managing the delivery team.

Assist our financial-sector clients in ensuring compliance with ESG regulatory requirements, model development for physical / transition risk, establishing robust governance and operation models, implementing ESG data strategies, financed emission calculations, and portfolio decarbonization techniques.

Participate in the EY educational program to continually enhance abilities, as well as to create and maintain fruitful client relationships.

Maintain a detailed knowledge of climate risk regulations and an awareness of broader banking regulations, market trends, competitor activities and product/services.

Ability to travel on short notice to serve Canadian clients (travel is expected to be less than 20%).

Skills and attributes for success

Strong communication, presentation and technical writing skills to describe ideas, concepts and issues that involve interpretation, analysis and assessment of complex conceptual topics
Ability to maintain and strengthen internal and external relationships
Own and implement business development initiatives around climate risk

To qualify for the role you must have

Strong academic background: Graduatelevel University degree in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or similar field is required
35 years' financial risk management / analytics experience with Financial Institutions or Consulting firms
Thorough understanding of risk concepts such as Probability of Default (PD), Loss Given Default (LGD), capital management, stress testing, ICAAP
Certificate in ESG, Climate risk, SCR, FRM, CFA, designation would be an asset.
Experience in ESG frameworks or Climate Risk frameworks in the financial institutions industry or in consulting services.
Excellent quantitative analytical skills and comfortable working large datasets; able to perform detrending and key data trigger point analysis (Python, R, SAS, SQL)
Knowledge of climaterelated physical and transition risks and the transmission channels through which these can manifest as a risk for financial institutions.
A good understanding of IPCC assessments of Representative Concentration Pathways (RPCs).
Experience in financial analysis or economic analysis in the context of climate change. Experience in climate scenario analysis and/or climate risk assessment.

Ideally, you'll also have

Self starting attitude, Critical thinking, intellectual curiosity, and problemsolving abilities
Ability to lead and work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams.
Exceptional commitment to providing excellent client service by strong interpersonal relationship, agility, and resourcefulness.

What we look for
If you're a natural leader with a talent for answering and communicating complex client problems, we're interested in you. You'll need to be great at influencing people, ready to listen and confident in challenging the status quo.

If you have a genuine passion for helping businesses and addressing their most pressing problems, this role is for you.

What we offer
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