Freelance Head of Sustainability Regulatory
- You are available asap ?
- With high expertise in sustainability regulation ?
Our client is a bank.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities The Successful Applicant
- Sustainability Regulatory Strategy & Regulatory Change Leadership
- Define and lead the firm's global sustainability regulatory strategy, ensuring alignment between enterprise sustainability objectives, regulatory requirements, and legal entity obligations.
- Serve as strategic advisor on sustainability and climate-related regulatory developments, assessing regulatory impacts and advising senior management on emerging risks, opportunities, and implementation priorities.
- Translate regulatory requirements into actionable implementation strategies, governance frameworks, operating model enhancements, disclosure requirements, and delivery roadmaps.
- Maintain a forward-looking view of regulatory change, supervisory expectations, industry developments, and peer practices to inform strategic decision-making and enterprise prioritization.
- Enterprise Regulatory Execution & Program Delivery
- Lead enterprise-wide implementation of sustainability regulatory requirements across global and legal entity reporting obligations, driving delivery from regulatory interpretation through implementation, disclosure readiness, and business-as-usual integration.
- Establish and oversee a strategic portfolio of sustainability regulatory initiatives, ensuring clear accountability, effective prioritization, timely delivery, and resolution of execution risks.
- Drive cross-functional alignment across Sustainability, Risk, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Corporate Functions, and regional stakeholders to ensure consistent and coordinated execution.
- Maintain regulatory requirements traceability, implementation documentation, and disclosure inventories to support transparency, accountability, and audit readiness.
- Regulatory Reporting, Disclosure Readiness & Assurance
- Provide strategic oversight of sustainability and climate-related disclosures across enterprise and legal entity reporting, ensuring compliance, consistency, and alignment with regulatory expectations.
- Strengthen the firm's disclosure readiness through robust documentation standards, evidencing frameworks, controls, change management processes, and assurance support mechanisms.
- Partner with Finance, Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Internal Audit to embed sustainability regulatory requirements within the firm's governance and control environment and support assurance-ready execution.
- Drive continuous enhancement of reporting capabilities, controls, and reporting processes to improve efficiency, consistency, and regulatory resilience.
- Governance, Operating Model & Accountability
- Design and oversee the sustainability regulatory governance framework, including executive steering forums, legal entity governance engagement, escalation protocols, decision-making processes, and Board and Committee reporting.
- Establish and maintain a scalable global operating model that balances enterprise consistency with jurisdictional and legal entity-specific regulatory requirements.
- Drive governance, accountability, and control enhancement initiatives to ensure regulatory obligations are effectively owned, monitored, and executed across the organization.
- Provide regular updates to executive leadership and governance bodies on regulatory developments, implementation progress, key risks, dependencies, and strategic decisions.
- Leadership, People Management & Stakeholder Engagement
- Lead, develop, and inspire a diverse, multicultural, and geographically dispersed team of sustainability regulatory professionals, fostering a high-performance, inclusive, and collaborative culture while building organizational capability and succession strength.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior executives and governance forums, influencing strategic decisions and driving alignment on sustainability regulatory priorities.
- Build and maintain strong relationships across regions, functions, and legal entities to support effective implementation and embed accountability for regulatory outcomes.
- Represent the Sustainability Hub in interactions with internal governance forums, auditors, regulators, industry groups, investors, and other key stakeholders as required.
- Significant experience in sustainability regulation, sustainable finance, ESG reporting, risk management, finance, controllership or related disciplines.
- Deep expertise across global sustainability and climate-related regulatory frameworks, including CSRD, EU Taxonomy, ISSB, SEC climate-related requirements, CRR3, CRD VI and Pillar 3 ESG reporting.
- Proven track record leading complex regulatory transformation programs across multiple jurisdictions, legal entities, and corporate functions.
- Strong experience designing governance frameworks, operating models, disclosure processes, controls, and assurance-ready reporting environments.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives, Boards, Committees, and governance forums.
- Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, leadership, and strategic execution capabilities.
Very interesting and high-level assignment.