Climate Risk

Are you ready to play a key role in shaping how we manage emerging climate and environmental risks? 

Join us as a Climate Risk AVP, where you'll be at the forefront of identifying, measuring, and governing environmental risk for our legal entity.

What you'll be doing:

• Drive BAU climate and environmental risk management practices

• Identify and assess climate-related risks and their impact

• Support regulatory remediation efforts linked to emerging risk

• Manage and influence stakeholders across financial and non-financial risk teams

• Ensure governance structures remain aligned with evolving regulatory expectations

Biggest challenge you’ll tackle: Maintaining consistent, measurable progress in line with shifting regulatory expectations in a fast-evolving risk landscape.

What you'll bring to the table:

• Good review and challenge capability

• Demonstrated stakeholder management skills

• A passion for — or technical knowledge of — climate and environmental risk

• Ability to collaborate and communicate with teams at all levels

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills

Location: Dublin

Purpose of the role

To proactively identify, assess, and manage climate-related risks within the bank's operations, investments, and lending activities.

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of climate risk management strategies and tools, including stress testing, risk disclosure, and portfolio optimisation.
• Development and maintenance of robust reporting procedures for climate-related risks and opportunities.
• Conducting comprehensive climate risk assessments across the bank's portfolio, including physical risks (extreme weather events, sea-level rise) and transition risks (policy changes, carbon pricing).
• Utilisation of climate risk modelling tools and scenario analysis to quantify potential financial impacts of climate change on the bank's assets, liabilities, and revenues.
• Integration of climate risk considerations into existing risk management frameworks and business processes.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.