ESG Manager

Job title:

ESG Manager

Company

Cynergy Bank

Job description

Application Deadline: 31 July 2025Hybrid Working Pattern: 3 days in Office & 2 WFHAbout usCynergy Bank is the UK’s human digital bank serving the needs of ‘scale up’ or medium sized and fast-growing SMEs; professionals; high net worth and mass affluent individuals, in essence those market segments that still value human service enabled by great technology.We recognise that professional and personal lives often overlap and our mission is to help empower our customers to achieve their ambitions by serving all their interdependent banking needs. We provide a comprehensive range of digitally enabled products and services to meet the property finance, business and commercial banking, private banking and personal savings needs of our customers.Our human and digital model transforms banking for customers who still value a face-to-face relationship that is enabled by the latest digital technology.We partner with firms such as Google Cloud, Cigniti and Slalom as we continue to innovate in the human digital space.Cynergy Bank plc is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Eligible deposits with Cynergy Bank plc are protected by the .For more information on Cynergy Bank visitCompany Benefits

• Competitive Salary and Company Bonus
• Competitive holiday allowance plus bank holidays
• Option to purchase an additional 10 days holiday
• Pension contribution and Life Assurance
• Income Protection Scheme and Season Ticket Loan
• Medical Cover (After Probation)
• Electric Car Scheme and Money Coach (After Probation)

The Role:We’re looking for a credible, capable ESG Manager who can get hands-on with delivery, while keeping sight of the big picture. You’ll support our ESG Director to implement our ESG strategy and steer the climate agenda—from emissions data and regulatory alignment through to portfolio transition and disclosure.We’re still early in our ESG journey, and there’s meaningful work to do—particularly around financed emissions, climate risk integration, and regulatory reporting. This is your chance to shape the agenda and drive lasting impact.Key Responsibilities

• Manage the delivery and evolution of Cynergy’s ESG Strategy, ensuring it captures and responds to our material environmental and social risks and opportunities.
• Drive improvements in financed emissions data and climate metrics, developing pragmatic plans to enhance internal data and/or tap into better external sources.
• Work collaboratively with Financial Risk to continuously improve our climate risk modelling, ensuring alignment with strategy, regulatory requirements and key delivery milestones.
• Lead the relationship with our third-party carbon accounting platform and ensure robust and continually enhanced tracking of our operational emissions across Scopes 1, 2 and 3.
• Develop climate transition pathways for key portfolios and model targets, balancing science-alignment, feasibility, data confidence, and strategic relevance.
• Coordinate the delivery of Cynergy’s Climate Transition Plan and lead its ongoing refresh cycle (every 3 years).
• Lead the shift in our disclosures from TCFD to UK SRS, working across Finance and Risk to ensure compliance with ISSB’s IFRS S1 and S2 standards.
• Embed ESG in day-to-day decision-making by developing internal learning materials and delivering training across the Bank.
• Run internal ESG governance, including the ESG Working Group, and ensure alignment with broader Risk governance structures.
• Partner with product teams to identify opportunities to develop or adapt products that support our customers’ climate transition.
• Engage with customers and relationship managers to understand transition pathways (and limitations) and support target-setting and stewardship efforts.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the Bank, particularly Risk, Finance, Product and the Front Line, to ensure ESG considerations are embedded.
• Proactively monitor changes in regulation, industry best practice and market expectations (e.g. PRA/FCA, NGFS Scenarios, Climate Change Committee Updates, UK SRS), and translate these into clear actions.
• Coordinate with 1st and 2nd line risk owners and internal audit to embed climate risk across the three lines of defence, including credit decisioning and portfolio management.
• Contribute to the development of climate scenario analysis and support its integration into stress testing, working closely with Prudential Risk.
• Maintain strong relationships with key external partners including PCAF and our carbon accounting providers.

Essential Knowledge & Experience

• Solid ESG experience in financial services, ideally in a bank, with particular depth in GHG emissions and climate risk.
• Strong understanding of commercial lending and how ESG integrates into credit and portfolio decisions.
• Comfortable working across functions, with strong stakeholder management and influence.
• Highly numerate and analytical, able to work with complex data and draw meaningful insight.
• Skilled project manager who can manage competing priorities and deliver against timelines.

Desirable Knowledge & Experience

• Exposure to PRA/FCA climate risk guidance (e.g. SS3/19, CP25/10) and climate scenarios (e.g. NGFS long- and short-term scenarios, Bank of England stress tests).
• Interest in the climate transition risks and opportunities for UK SMEs and landlords.
• Python modelling knowledge or ability to learn and work with technical teams on data outputs.
• Familiarity with ESG data limitations and evolving good practice.

Behaviours & Attributes

• Resilient, independent and pragmatic, able to cut through noise and focus on what matters.
• Strong communicator with a sharp eye for detail.
• Curious and proactive, keeps ahead of developments and spots opportunities to raise the bar.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and complexity, can hold multiple moving parts and steer progress.

Cynergy Bank was established in 2018 by entrepreneurs to serve the needs of business owners, property entrepreneurs and family businesses. We have a strong track record supporting businesses that want to scale up and provide over £3bn lending to scaling businesses across the UK, we also offer retail deposits to UK savers. Our vision is to provide a truly personalised service that is delivered through face-to-face relationships and enhanced by the latest technology.

Expected salary

Location

London

Job date

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 05:50:50 GMT

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