Environmental & Social Due Diligence Lead

Join a team that shapes how capital is deployed by ensuring transactions meet robust environmental and social standards.

You will influence high-impact decisions across industries and products while partnering closely with bankers, risk, legal, and compliance colleagues.

This role offers strong visibility, continuous learning across evolving sustainability topics, and opportunities to broaden your scope across sectors and deal types.

You will build trusted-advisor relationships internally and externally by translating complex standards into practical, deal-ready guidance.

If you are motivated by rigorous risk analysis and real-world outcomes, this role provides a platform to grow.

As an Environmental & Social Due Diligence Lead in Global Banking, you will advise deal teams in managing environmental and social risks associated with their clients and transactions.

You will partner with stakeholders across the first line, legal, compliance, and risk functions to ensure consistent application of the Environmental and Social Risk Policy Framework (per source job description summary provided in the conversation).

You will assess client performance and transaction-level requirements across lending, bonds, underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, and sustainable finance products (per source job description summary provided in the conversation).

You will act as a subject matter expert across priority sectors including power, mining and metals, oil and gas, and soft commodities (per source job description summary provided in the conversation).

The role requires comfort working at pace under tight deadlines and with multiple stakeholders, while maintaining high analytical standards and clear documentation (per source job description summary provided in the conversation).

You will stay current on key environmental topics such as human rights, climate change, energy efficiency, and energy transition, and apply that knowledge to live transactions and client engagement (per source job description summary provided in the conversation).

You will also strengthen capability across the broader organization by enhancing training and contributing to strategic planning and objectives (per source job description summary provided in the conversation).

Job responsibilities


* Evaluate environmental and social requirements for transactions to confirm alignment with the Environmental and Social Risk Policy Framework (per source job description summary provided in the conversation).


* Assess client environmental and social risk profiles and performance using available disclosures, third-party information, and internal materials (per source job description summary provided in the conversation).


* Advise bankers and deal teams on environmental and social risks, mitigants, and conditions to support sound deal structuring and execution (per source job description summary provided in the conversation).


* Partner with legal, compliance, and independent risk...