Sustainable Finance and ESG Risk Associate

Financing & Risk Solutions Associate, ESG

Join us as a Financing & Risk Solutions Associate, ESG

• In this crucial role, you’ll In this crucial role, you’ll support the development of NatWest Markets’ sustainable finance and ESG risk capabilities across European capital markets
• We’ll look to you to support senior originators in front‑line origination, risk engagement and client delivery by translating sustainability, climate and broader ESG themes into tangible financing, investment and risk outcomes
• This is a fantastic opportunity to deepen your domain expertise across sustainable finance, ESG risk, capital markets and structured financing supported by on‑the‑job learning, trainings, and self-development

What you'll do

As a Financing & Risk Solutions Associate, you will be supporting the effective management of transactions to make sure that all activities are in line with the bank’s policies covering conduct, operational, credit, and regulatory risks.

You’ll contribute to the development of high‑quality sustainability‑linked client materials and regulatory‑aligned ESG assessments. You’ll also be assisting with client deep dives, navigating the sales coverage teams and gathering feedback from internal client touchpoints.

Your day-to-day activities will be:

• Preparing pitch-books, investor presentations, analysing market dynamics, identifying market trends, other marketing materials focusing on sustainability‑related analys
• Producing client materials with focus on climate, ESG and regulatory developments shaping European capital markets
• Tracking markets dynamics, including sustainable finance trends, evolving supervisory expectations and ESG‑related investor demand
• Updating and maintaining internal databases and writing weekly market commentary for circulation to clients, including insights on transition and physical risk, regulatory disclosure regimes and ESG‑linked issuance activity
• Supporting portfolio‑level ESG materiality and risk assessments in line with ECB and global supervisory expectations, contributing to audit‑ready, front‑line risk ownership

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll need to hold an MBA in Finance or a CA, CFA, FRM qualification. You’ll experience interest in sustainable finance, ESG analytics or climate‑related financial risk. Ability to link sustainability themes to financial performance, valuation impacts and risk outcomes. Familiarity with European sustainability regulatory frameworks (e.g., CSRD, ISSB, EU Taxonomy, ECB climate risk expectations).

Additionally, it will be an advantage if you already have capability in sustainability and ESG risk along with knowledge of various debt products and markets.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Comfort operating in evolving and complex sustainability‑related regulatory environments
• Knowledge of investment banking and credit related products
• Advanced power point and excel skills and experience with Pivots, vlookup, hlookup, index match and other advance excel formulas
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationship with key stakeholders including working with Risk, Compliance, Sustainability, SFA and Coverage teams.
• Excellent analytical and commercial awareness skills with high attention to detail, strong problem solving and logical thinking skills

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

21/03/2026

Experience Level

Mid Level