Sustainability Analyst

Imagine…

Contributing to making Rabobank’s Wholesale & Rural business a frontrunner on sustainability. As a Sustainability Analyst in the W&R Sustainable Business Development team you can make a difference by leveraging your expertise to help your business colleagues better understand the sustainability performance of their clients, and thereby help our clients become more sustainable. As an expert in sustainability, you will play a key role in supporting the business in their engagement with clients on sustainability challenges, issues, risks and opportunities. A responsibility with impact, which you shape by being independent-minded, business-oriented and collaborative. 

Making a difference by

• In line with the bank’s Sustainability ambitions, providing in-depth analysis of the sustainability performance of clients, projects or value chains, that are classified as “high-risk” from a sustainability perspective, with a focus on international wholesale clients and projects;
• Giving independent advise, carefully weighing sustainability-related information from a wide variety of internal and external sources, such as client assessment information, internal policy documents, internal and third party research, and signals about incidents or reputational impacts in relation to our clients;
• Promoting and explaining the views and opinions on client sustainability performance and issues to client owners (relationship managers, account managers, senior bankers, credit risk advisors and credit decision-makers);
• Partnering with client owners in dialogues with clients on sustainability issues and impacts.
• Acting as sustainability sector expert for relevant sectors in the W&R portfolio and sharing this knowledge with the business;
• Pro-actively identifying and supporting improvements in sustainability risk assessments, issue management and sustainability standards and policies;
• Training and educating credit analysts and relationship managers on how to assess the sustainability risks and performance of their clients and how to translate this into high quality sustainability analysis as part of the credit analysis of their clients;

With each other

Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. The Wholesale & Rural (W&R) Sustainable Business Development team is responsible for strategy setting, new sustainable business development opportunities, coordination, implementation, monitoring and acceleration of W&R’s sustainability ambitions worldwide and, as such, contribute to the realization of Rabobank’s group-wide Sustainability ambitions. The team acts as a center of expertise and acceleration for the different business lines and regions within W&R and is the primary point of contact for the Group Sustainability department. The ultimate goal of the team is to truly embed sustainability in our business: from our internal policies, through our client conversations and the products and services we offer. In your role as Sustainability Analyst you will work together in a team of 4 analysts reporting directly to the Head of the Sustainability Analysts team but located close to the businesses and teams you will be working with.

With you

Customer focus, collaboration, external orientation, and client sustainability assessment skills are essential for the role of Sustainability Analyst.

In addition, the following competencies are required for this position:

• Educational level: Bachelor or master degree.
• 3-5 years of experience in (credit) risk management or wholesale banking with a good understanding of the credit and risk culture, policies and processes of Rabobank. Knowledge regarding methods to assess client sustainability performance and client-related sustainability issues and impacts is required.
• Excellent effective communication and writing skills, with English at professional level.
• Analytical skills and ability to combine information on a wide ranges of sustainability topics from various sources into balanced and spot-on analyses.
• Resilience: able to strike a balance between working by structured methods and the dynamics of business needs.
• Project management: able to work on multiple assessments in parallel, while planning workstreams, engaging with stakeholders, and writing assessments.
• Experience with or interest in providing training and education to colleagues on sustainability topics.

Growing a better world together

You'll already be aware that Rabobank is a financial services provider for more than 8.5 million customers in 40 countries. But did you know that we aim to contribute to real change with our 'Growing a better world together' mission?  We do so in countless ways, such as: 

• We want to share our knowledge about sustainable financial solutions. For example, we offer a discount to corporate clients with a sustainable hallmark.
• Financing our clients to invest in more sustainable agricultural practices that lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Interested?

Do you want to become the ideal version of yourself? We would love to help you achieve this by focusing firmly on your growth, development, and investing in an environment where you keep learning every day. We give you the space to innovate and initiate. In this way, we offer you numerous opportunities to grow and help you exceed your expectations, to do the right thing exceptionally well, and to therefore grow as a professional. In addition, with us (based on a 36-hour working week), you can also expect:

• Salary scale 9, depending on the experience of the candidate
• a thirteenth month and holiday pay;
• an Employee Benefit Budget of 11% of your monthly salary. You decide how to spend this budget. This may include purchasing extra leave days, making extra pension contributions or even receiving a monthly cash payout;
• a personal budget that you can spend on activities related to your personal development and career;
• flexible working times and location-independent working;
• 100% reimbursement of commuting costs if you travel by public transport. Do you still prefer to travel by car or motorbike? Then choose a commuting allowance;
• a pension scheme, to which your contribution is only 3% or 5%. 

Let's meet 

Are you the person we're looking for? Are you ready to join Rabobank as a Sustainability Policy Officer and to make a difference to yourself, our customers and to society? We look forward to receiving your application for this vacancy in Utrecht.

Good to know:

• Applications are open until January 17th, 2024. Apply via the “Apply now” button. Responses will be handled in accordance with our vacancy management policy.
• If you have any questions about the specific details of this position, please contact Yoshita Arora, telephone +31625556337or yoshita.arora@rabobank.com
• Lieke Averes, recruiter,  would be happy to answer any questions about the application procedure via lieke.averes@rabobank.nl
• The application process includes screening. Based on the screening procedures in place at Rabobank, we assess whether new staff are reliable enough to work at Rabobank.
• The application process for this vacancy includes an individual assessment and may involve an analysis and writing assignment.
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