Climate Risk Consultant

Role & responsibilities

• Work closely with business users to gather, understand, analyze business requirements, and prepare the business requirement document / functional specifications document
• Responsible for collating the business requirements, testing, production deployment and training to ensure end to end delivery of the project;
• Responsible to plan the test scenarios, perform pre-UAT sanity checks and co-ordinate with business users to perform the UAT;
• Responsible to conduct the training and maintain the business-related documentation (e.g. user guides, FAQs);

Work closely with project/technology team to ensure that users requirements and requests are delivered timely, accurately and successfully

Preferred candidate profile

Mandatory Skill(s)

• Master Degree in Banking, science, commerce or Information Technology;
• Demonstrates understanding of climate change risks, including knowledge of both physical and transition risks.
• Demonstrates interest in climate change risk analysis and risk management, as well as interest in broader ESG topics.
• 5+ years of experience in Climate related engagements
• Strong experience in business Advisory, business requirements gathering, analysis and documentations like BRD, FRD, user stories & use cases
• Able to take the lead during initiation phase of projects, working closely with business leads.
• Understanding of regulatory reporting guidelines regarding climate change risk and ESG.
• Ability to engage with business clients and IT staff.
• Experience working in Agile methodology;
• Strong communicator with presentation and advisory skills;
• Effective interpersonal / communication skills to interact with people at all levels.

Desirable Skills

• Demonstrates some abilities and/or a proven record of success in modeling (climate or financial modeling)
• Prior experience with in-house application/ third party product implementation
• Demonstrating proven data visualization skills using business intelligence tools.
• Demonstrating knowledge of commonly used climate change scenarios, including IPCC, NGFS and IEA; and,
• Demonstrating knowledge of GHG quantification, net zero modeling and SBTi.
• To work under Agile project framework and use of JIRA software for writing Epics/stories
• To write test cases, test defect management, good documentation standards under Agile with test evidence and audited sign offs
• Having qualification & certifications like PRM, FRM, SCR etc.,