Sustainability Specialist
Company: MUFG Pension & Market Services
Role summary
Sustainability Specialist is a full-time role at MUFG Pension & Market Services in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (hybrid). Posted 2026-10-11. Experience level: 5-10.
- Job title
- Sustainability Specialist
- Company
- MUFG Pension & Market Services
- Location
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Work arrangement
- hybrid
- Employment type
- full-time
- Category
- Software Engineering
- Experience level
- 5-10
- Date posted
- 2026-10-11
Here's a fantastic opportunity to make a real impact in sustainability and ESG. You'll get to coordinate important initiatives across different departments, helping to shape the company's approach to climate risk and community engagement. It's a great chance to grow your expertise in a field that's increasingly vital.
Job description
Overview
The Sustainability Specialist will support enterprise ESG governance, policy and regulatory oversight, coordinating a cross-functional approach to sustainability and climate risk across the organisation.
The role will work together with Finance, which is responsible for statutory reporting and assurance, and Group Marketing, which is responsible for our community and giving back strategy.
The Sustainability Specialist is responsible for coordinating the Sustainability & ESG Working Group, made up of representatives from all Business Divisions and Functional Support Teams (e.g. IT, Risk, Finance, HR, Procurement), with an Executive Sponsor in attendance. The role will ensure that there is a regular meeting cadence, propose topics for discussion, and capture and drive actions from the Working Group.
The role is also responsible for ensuring the topic of sustainability is a regular agenda item for discussion at the Executive Leadership Team and Board meetings, as well as monitoring of new sustainability regulation and compliance (e.g. changes to Modern Slavery legislation) and proactively identifying emerging risks such as climate risk.
Key Accountabilities and main responsibilities
Strategic Focus
Ensures appropriate governance of sustainability & ESG across MPMS by:
Ensuring Board oversight of sustainability & ESG occurs and is capable of being evidenced, including preparing any requisite Board reporting and papers and facilitating and Board sustainability training (or access to appropriate training), as required.
Driving progress against sustainability goals by ensuring sustainability is tabled regularly for discussion and tracked with business owners at ELT and Board meetings.
Managing the Sustainability & ESG Working Group to ensure the enterprise-wide sustainability and climate risk agenda progresses, drawing on functional expertise and ownership across the business. This includes providing secretariat for the meetings, setting agendas and supporting the Executive Sponsor as chair and following up actions as decided by the Working Group.
Monitors for new regulation and emerging risks, briefing the Working Group, which will then discuss and determine any actions required
Manages policy review of key sustainability-related policies, being the Human Rights Policy (owner by CPO and CFO) and Climate Risk Management Policy (owned by CRO).
Liaises with external consultants as needed for strategic support and counsel.
Operational Management
Manages responses for client RFPs and annual questionnaires on Sustainability.
Provide input and content to the Sustainability Report and Modern Slavery Statement, which will be designed and produced by the Marketing team.
Provide input and data as required to the AASB 17 statutory and assurance reporting, which will be led by Finance.
Ensure the business data owners are regularly inputting reporting data into the data management system.
Provide advice and training on sustainability policy, reporting obligations and best practice to business stakeholders.
Coordinate the annual Modern Slavery reporting process, bringing together inputs from Procurement, People & Culture, Finance, Legal, Risk and other functional owners. Accountability for the underlying activities, controls, data and due diligence remains with the relevant business function
Governance & Risk
Always operate within MUFG Pension & Market Services Governance and Risk framework
Contribute as required to any risk reporting by Line 2.
Experience & Personal Attributes
5-8 years’ experience in ESG, sustainability or governance or risk-related roles relevant to sustainability
Understanding of key sustainability reporting frameworks and standards and how the business is required to comply with them, for example:
AASB (Climate-related Financial Disclosures)
Modern Slavery
GRI Standards
Proficient in use of O365 applications
Time management & project management skills
Strong organisational skills especially when working with multiple stakeholders and on multiple priorities at the same time
Self-driven and ability to deliver outcomes, managing output to agreed timelines and strict deadlines
Stakeholder management skills:
Ability to work with and influence multiple stakeholders and build relationships with others
Experience in preparing Board and Executive-level reporting and papers would be ideal
Development of clear, concise Board and ELT papers
Ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into practical guidance
Some of our Employment Benefits
FlexiWorks – enabling our employees to work in the office and at home
Purchased Leave, Parental Leave, Volunteer Leave, Gender transition leave, Well-being leave
Employee Recognition Program - to recognise people who are demonstrating our values and Company purpose.
Talent Referral Program
Salary Sacrificing via Superannuation
Employee Assistance Program
Learning & Development - Development at your fingertips via self-paced learning, including educational assistance support
Employee discounts – Access discounted rates and offers from a variety of providers including Bupa and Microsoft
Novated Car Leasing
Culture at MUFG Pension & Market Services
We are an inclusive employer whose people work collaboratively. We encourage, support and value the various talents and perspectives of our people and promote a flexible and blended work environment where our people can thrive, and their wellbeing is supported. We know that diversity drives better client outcomes, continuous improvement, and growth. Be part of our company and together we will achieve our full potential.
We treat all individuals fairly and equitably and do not discriminate on the basis of diverse characteristics including, but not limited to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, cultural background, physical abilities/disabilities, religious or p
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