Director, Climate Capital, Structured Lending Portfolio Management

Director, Climate Capital, Structured Lending Portfolio Management, Dublin

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Date: 19 Jun 2025

Location: Dublin, IE, IE

Company: Allied Irish Bank

Location/Office Policy: Office Centric and office base MWS, Dublin

• Do you want to build a career that is fighting against climate change?

• Do you want to play a role in decarbonising our energy and infrastructure, fund a more circular, less wasteful economy and help support key social projects?

• Do you want to part of and enable a high performing team to do just that?

What is the Role:

At AIB, we have a clear purpose – empowering people to build a sustainable future. We’re making a difference to how businesses contribute to climate action. We’re aiming to make 70 percent of our lending green or transition by 2030 and we’ve set up a €30 billion climate action fund.

Our Climate Capital segment is central to the delivery of these ambitious targets, investing in large scale renewables and infrastructure projects across Ireland, the UK, Europe and North America. This is the fastest growing area of the bank’s loan book. 

This is a unique opportunity for experienced individuals to join this high performing, ambitious team, as we build out our international platform and directly contribute to global climate action goals. We have exciting plans to expand our team at pace. 

As a Climate Capital Director the candidate will be responsible for leading out and developing strategy across our activities and will also be an important member of the leadership team. You will have a close working relationship with the Capital Markets teams and Group supports, particularly Credit, Risk and Business Operations.

Key accountabilities;

• Manage an existing portfolio of credit exposures within the credit policy framework of the Bank, coordinating workstreams and allocating staff to ensure best in class portfolio and risk management.
• Drive the continuous development of process improvement, portfolio insight and efficiency within the business.
• You will be responsible for identifying market changes and future trends as the Climate Capital portfolio evolves, including market developments, changes to regulation and potential threats to the credit quality of the portfolio.
• Build appropriate controls and procedures within the business. Drive risk management culture and adherence to codes of conduct, law, and regulation.
• Lead high engagement levels across the unit. Develop and motivate the team to consistently deliver results and build and implement a people strategy to attract, retain and develop people within the unit. 
• Build and continuously refine a culture of customer and credit excellence.
• Engage directly, build, and develop relationships with stakeholders, both internal and external and represent the business and AIB in this highly visible and dynamic market.
• You will be recognised in the market as an expert in energy, infrastructure and banking and will have regular interactions with CEOs, CFOs and Senior Partners in Legal, Advisory, Funds and Private Equity Houses.
• Ensure compliance and administration obligations are satisfied to a high degree.
• Collaborate with other parts of AIB including AIB UK, Treasury and Operations Teams

What you Will Bring ;

A Reminder of What We Offer:

We are committed to offering our colleagues choice and flexibility in how we work and live and our hybrid working model enables our people to balance their time between working from home and their designated office, subject to their role, the needs of our customers and business requirements.

Some of our benefits include;

• Market leading Pension Scheme
• Healthcare Scheme
• Variable Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Family leave options
• Two volunteer days per year

Please click here for further information about AIB’s PACT – Our Commitment to You.

Key Capabilities

• Customer First
• Develops and Empowers
• Ensures Accountability
• Depth of Technical Knowledge
• Structured Finance
• Portfolio Management

This role is part of the Fitness & Probity Regime and Individual Accountability Framework, which set out the specific requirements applicable

AIB is an equal opportunities employer, and we pride ourselves on being the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request please email the Talent Acquisition team at careers@aib.ie

Closing date for applications: Thursday 10th July (just before midnight)

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