Sustainable Finance Implementation Specialist

Job Title: Sustainable Finance Implementation Specialist

Location: London – 1 Churchill Place (Hybrid Working)

Contract: 6 Months

Hours: 9 AM – 5 PM

Contract Type: PAYE Only

Overall Purpose of the Role

Barclays is seeking an experienced Sustainable Finance specialist to join a cross-functional, firm-wide programme focused on enhancing the implementation of its Sustainable and Transition Finance Frameworks (SFF 4.2) and other subsidiary frameworks. This is a highly technical, project-based role requiring deep sectoral and product knowledge, as well as experience in framework design and implementation in global financial institutions.

The successful candidate will play a key role in developing internal guidance for business lines, enhancing transaction screening tools, and supporting post-trade monitoring approaches, contributing to the delivery of Barclays’ long-term sustainable finance commitments.

Key Responsibilities

Framework Implementation Support:

• Enhance internal Sustainable Finance Framework implementation guidance across business lines and product groups.

• Work closely with business and control functions to ensure frameworks are practical, scalable, and embedded into transaction processes.

Transaction Assessment & Monitoring:

• Review and improve transaction screening and assessment tools used to evaluate product and client eligibility.

• Develop post-trade monitoring processes, escalation triggers, and business-specific guidance for use across Banking and Markets divisions.

Technical Analysis & Advisory:

• Provide subject-matter expertise to ensure alignment with global sustainability standards, frameworks, and evolving market practices.

• Support the development of escalation pathways, review protocols, and quality assurance practices around sustainable finance transactions.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Collaborate with product, legal, compliance, and sustainability teams to align on best practices and implementation milestones.

• Communicate technical enhancements to senior stakeholders and business leads.

Documentation & Guidance Development:

• Assist in drafting detailed implementation guidance and internal control documentation to support the roll-out of updated frameworks.

Skills & Experience Required

Essential:

• Strong expertise in Sustainable and Transition Finance, preferably gained in global banking, investment, consulting, or assurance environments.

• Proven experience developing or reviewing sustainable finance frameworks at the institutional level.

• Deep understanding of industry standards, principles, and developments (e.g. ICMA, GFANZ, EU Taxonomy) across financial products.

• Experience working across Investment Banking and Markets product lines.

• Strong analytical capability and the ability to synthesise complex information into practical guidance.

• Track record of successful cross-functional collaboration, especially in control, product, or sustainability implementation roles.

Desirable:

• Familiarity with regulatory taxonomies and policy frameworks (e.g. EU, UK, global sustainability rules).

• Experience working directly with Transition Finance frameworks or decarbonisation strategies in hard-to-abate sectors.

• Background in sustainability-related control or compliance functions beneficial.

About Barclays

Barclays is a British universal bank. It is diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Barclays businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full-service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by its service company which provides technology, operations, and functional services across the Group.

Values

Everything Barclays does is shaped by its five values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship. The Barclays values inform the foundations of its relationships with customers and clients, but they also shape how Barclays measures and rewards the performance of colleagues. Simply put, success is not just about what you achieve, but about how you achieve it.

Diversity

Barclays aims to foster a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel confident in bringing their whole selves to work, feel included, and their talents are nurtured, empowering them to contribute fully to Barclays’ vision and goals.

Hybrid

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

Your Benefits

As a contract employee of Randstad Sourceright, you’ll receive a wide range of financial and personal benefits. There’s enrolment in a pension plan (after 12 weeks on assignment) and holiday pay. You’ll also get 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme, designed to help you deal with any problems that could be affecting your home or work life. Plus, there are discounts at a wide range of high street shops, restaurants, and entertainment venues — from Asda to Zizzi Italian restaurants.