Investor Account Manager

Job Purpose and Background

Are you looking for a role that combines your experience in the financial sector and your personal ethics? Do you care about preserving our planet’s forests?

We are seeking an account manager with experience of working in Southeast Asia’s finance sector to join our global, multi-award-winning investor and wider teams in Hong Kong. You will build and maintain relationships with key financial institutions in Southeast Asia to raise awareness, build capacity and support a shift to financing that supports sustainable consumption and production. The work will be focused on issues concerning forests and how forests and land-use due diligence can be integrated into everyday business practices. You will have a passion for the environment and feel comfortable communicating with investors, insurers, banks and integrated financial institutions to increase transparency and awareness to preserve the world’s forests.

The account manager will be based in Hong Kong and have experience working in the financial sector combined with a passion for maintaining biodiversity, mitigating climate change and securing water resources.

Key responsibilities include:

• Building and maintain relationships with key financial institutions in the Southeast Asia region to support and disclose through CDP’s corporate disclosure questionnaire
• Leveraging CDP’s investor network and other investors active in the Southeast Asia region to support a transition to more sustainable production and consumption
• Working with financial institutions within the South East Asia to increase transparency through annual reporting on lending practices and policies to drive the transition to deforestation-free capital allocation through investment and ownership activities
• Developing and conduct training, capacity building with financial institutions to identify deforestation risk in investment and lending portfolios
• Organising workshops with central banks, financial regulators, commercial banks and other stakeholders within the region to promote transparency, reporting of environmental data and shifting capital to sustainable production systems
• Providing input into development of reports, training and marketing materials to be disseminated amongst financial sector stakeholders
• Accurately monitoring and evaluating activities delivered and their outcomes through the Forests Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning framework to support reporting and ongoing development
• Contributing to internal capacity development, learning and knowledge sharing to enable lessons learned in Southeast Asia to be implemented in other key geographies including Latin America, China and Europe
• Keeping current in investment trends in environmental, social and corporate governance and feed information back to CDP management and the wider investor team
• Providing feedback from financial institutions and investors on CDP’s products and services
• Representing CDP as a speaker at relevant financial and other conferences, webinars, etc.

Essential skills and experience:

• Exceptional relationship and rapport building skills to develop high level connections with financial institutions in Southeast Asia
• Strong communication skills and ability to draw key messages out of complex research and communicate research findings to both internal and external audiences including investors
• Experience in marketing and communicating the aims and objectives of CDP, including the investor program and environmental disclosure work to a broad range of stakeholders
• An understanding of capital markets and the investment management industry with a passion for sustainable investment
• Experience liaising with contacts at pension funds, insurance companies and investment managers
• Excellent English skills (verbal and written).

Desirable characteristics and skills:

• Interest in how deforestation and other environmental concerns relate to material business risks and opportunities
• A desire to take ownership and responsibility for their work
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and presentation skills and a desire to seek out speaking and networking opportunities
• The ability to deliver excellent results under pressure and take pride in working to a high standard
• A flexible but diligent working style, with the ability to work effectively in a small team and remotely with colleagues in CDP’s global offices
• Ability to interact convincingly with people at different levels of seniority and from different cultural backgrounds
• A minimum of 5 years' experience working in the financial markets, preferably in a relationship building role and within Southeast Asian financial institutions.
• A passion for integrating environmental issues into the mainstream investment process
• Willingness to travel
• Fluency in a Southeast Asian language (Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, etc) is an advantage.

This is a full-time, permanent contract based at CDP’s Hong Kong office reporting to the Global Head of Investor Initiatives and the Director of CDP Hong Kong.

Salary and benefits: salary is dependent on experience however our starting salary is 390,000 HKD per annum. As well as this we provide an annual discretionary bonus, 24 days holidays+ public holidays, training and development the opportunity to work flexibly and many others.

Applicants must be eligible to work legally in Hong Kong

Before you apply

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How to apply

To apply please email your CV and a covering letter setting out how you meet the required skills and experience or key responsibilities, which should be no more than two pages, to [email protected] with ‘Account Manager, Investor’ in the subject. The deadline is April 9 2021.