Director – Financial Services – Climate & Sustainability
Baringa
Date: 1 week ago
City: Sydney, New South Wales
Contract type: Full time
About Baringa
We set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.
You’ll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick – slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.
We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.
Our growing Australian Financial Services practice are looking for an experienced Director to join the team.
We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our growing Financial Services practice in Sydney. You will collaborate with Australia's largest banks, superannuation funds, asset managers, and insurers to build their internal climate and sustainability functions, enabling them to meet upcoming requirements for climate and sustainability disclosures.
What You Will Be Doing
In the rapidly evolving climate and sustainability landscape, you'll assist clients in understanding their obligations, developing robust capabilities, and crafting strategies to stay ahead of regulatory demands. Your projects may include:
Your skills and experience
Putting People First.
Benefits
Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.
An award-winning workplace.
You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.
Using business as a force for good.
We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.
We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.
Join us
All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.
We set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.
You’ll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick – slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.
We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.
Our growing Australian Financial Services practice are looking for an experienced Director to join the team.
We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our growing Financial Services practice in Sydney. You will collaborate with Australia's largest banks, superannuation funds, asset managers, and insurers to build their internal climate and sustainability functions, enabling them to meet upcoming requirements for climate and sustainability disclosures.
What You Will Be Doing
In the rapidly evolving climate and sustainability landscape, you'll assist clients in understanding their obligations, developing robust capabilities, and crafting strategies to stay ahead of regulatory demands. Your projects may include:
- Leading Sustainability Transformation Programs: Develop and implement comprehensive work programs to transform clients' sustainability practices, aligning them with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
- Managing Climate Risks and Opportunities: Help institutions identify, assess, and manage climate-related risks and opportunities within their operations and portfolios. This includes conducting climate change scenario analysis and integrating findings into strategy, risk management, and financial planning.
- Integrating Climate into Business Strategy: Embed climate considerations into core business strategies to ensure alignment with sustainability goals and regulatory requirements. Support clients in setting and achieving net zero targets, including emissions reduction strategies aligned with global agreements.
- Enhancing Reporting: Identify the most significant sustainability issues for organisations and their stakeholders to inform disclosure priorities. Guide clients in developing transparent and compliant sustainability reports that meet emerging disclosure standards.
- Develop Go-to-Market Strategies: Create propositions aligned with industry trends and client needs.
- Enhance Market Presence: Increase the visibility of our capabilities both within the firm and externally.
- Contribute to Thought Leadership: Develop innovative insights in the sustainability space.
- Lead Business Development: Identify new opportunities, expand our network, and respond to proposals.
Your skills and experience
- It is essential that you have demonstrable consulting experience operating at a senior level.
- You may also have worked within financial services or the climate and sustainability divisions supporting those services.
- At Director level, you will have a rich and varied collection of projects to draw from, that you have successfully shaped, directed and delivered.
- You are considered an expert in your chosen specialisations and enjoy coaching your teams and sharing your knowledge with clients.
- 10+ years of total work experience, with a significant portion focused on sustainability.
- Proven experience in organisational change project delivery within a management consultancy or internal change function.
- You are an excellent communicator with good presentation skills.
- You are curious and a great listener who takes the time to fully understand and help solve your clients’ issues.
- You are a team player who loves building and maintaining strong and capable teams.
- You have experience in coaching others to bring out their best.
Putting People First.
Benefits
Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:
- Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
- Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
- Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
- Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
- Career Progression: No one develops at the same pace. That’s why we have quarterly rather than annual promotion reviews. We don’t have any quotas: if you’re ready and delivering at the right level, you’ll get that promotion.
- Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.
An award-winning workplace.
You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.
Using business as a force for good.
We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.
We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.
Join us
All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.
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