Senior Policy Adviser – Sustainable Finance

Do you have experience of working in financial services and/or sustainable finance? Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to be involved with one of the fastest growing trends in global finance? If so, read on!

About the Team

The Sustainable Finance Unit

The Sustainable Finance Unit is an impactful and friendly team. We lead on policy and regulation for sustainable finance. Ensuring the UK’s finance sector can respond to the challenge of climate change is at the core of what we do. This includes supporting the financial sector to unlock the financing needed to address climate change, empowering people to understand the environmental impact of their financial choices and ensuring that the rapidly scaling market for sustainable finance is well-regulated. Sustainable finance is key to the Government’s vision for the future of finance in the UK.

Prudential & Sustainability Team

The Sustainable Finance Unit sits in the wider Prudential & Sustainability team, we are a friendly team with a multifaceted and high-profile remit, responsible for policy on sustainable finance and prudential banking.

About the Job

In this role, you will:

• Design and implement policies to ensure the UK has a world leading transition finance market . This includes working closely with other government departments, regulators and industry, particularly the Transition Finance Council to position the UK’s financial services sector to capture sustainability-related opportunities; ensuring the sector manages climate and environment-related risks; and supporting the mobilisation of necessary private finance needed to deliver transition to a resilient, net zero and nature-positive economy.
• Engage with departments across government (including Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Department for Business and Trade and DEFRA) and financial regulators (including the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority) to ensure that the government’s approach to the manifesto commitment on transition planning policy and regulation is effective, proportionate, and coordinated. This includes supporting the agreement of positions across departments and regulators.
• Lead Treasury's engagement with departments on how adaptation and nature can be embedded in wider international and domestic sustainable finance frameworks.
• Promote the UK’s approach to sustainable finance regulation internationally , through preparing Ministers and seniors to engage with leading industry figures, at international forums, and with Parliament.
• Attend international meetings to represent the UK’s position on sustainable finance and support the building of greater international alignment across sustainable finance frameworks.
• Manage and matrix manage staff within the wider Unit who lead work on the above policy areas, delivering day-to-day management, development conversations and supporting the management of the wider Unit.

About You

You will be able to analyse policy detail, identifying key issues and how they fit into overall organisational objectives and make policy recommendations. You will be able to build relationships and work effectively with partners, and support others to do the same including senior staff across your organisation and external stakeholders. You will align work and support others to contribute to wider organisational objectives while remaining alert to emerging issues that might impact your work area.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant).
• Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• Generous parental and adoption leave packages
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28%
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link. If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk