The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is Singapore’s central bank and integrated financial regulator.

As central bank, MAS promotes sustained, non-inflationary economic growth through the conduct of monetary policy and close macroeconomic surveillance and analysis. It manages Singapore’s exchange rate, official foreign reserves, and liquidity in the banking sector.

As an integrated financial supervisor, MAS fosters a sound financial services sector through its prudential oversight of all financial institutions in Singapore – banks, insurers, capital market intermediaries, financial advisors, and stock exchanges. It is also responsible for well-functioning financial markets, sound conduct, and investor education.

MAS also works with the financial industry to promote Singapore as a dynamic international financial centre. It facilitates the development of infrastructure, adoption of technology, and upgrading of skills in the financial industry.

Join us now, if you have a genuine interest in making an impact to help shape Singapore’s economic and financial landscape.
[What you will be working on ]

You will be a member of a central team responsible for the ideation and implementation of sustainability strategies across MAS’ functions, working closely with relevant departments within the organisation to anchor Singapore as a leading green finance centre.

In this role, you will:

• Support the Sustainability Group (SG) in key projects identified within MAS Finance for Net Zero Action Plan (FINZ AP). Some examples of projects that could be assigned to you are indicated below with the actual portfolio of work determined upon joining.
  
  • Carbon Markets . This includes collaborating with other government agencies to develop whole-of-economy strategies to grow Singapore as a carbon services and trading hub, and strategies for the Singapore financial sector to capture opportunities arising from carbon markets.
    
  • Adaption / Nature Financing . The work involves collaborating with industry on potential initiatives and/or research that contribute to an acceleration of the adaption and/or nature financing agenda forward, and which can be launched at global platforms such as COP.
    
  • Data strategy . This involves the development and implementation of a data strategy to address challenges that Singapore-based financial institutions and corporates may face in scaling up sustainable financing and/or improving quality of sustainable reporting. Work with relevant stakeholders such as partnership with industry bodies, global platforms and Gprnt to ensure relevance of the data strategy.
    
  • Taxonomy . Work includes developing strategies to support Singapore-based financial institutions, corporates and Singapore government agencies to scale up green and transition finance, and execute communications strategy to increase mindshare of the Singapore-Asia Taxonomy within the region and globally. Some other areas of work also include initiating interoperability of transition thresholds with jurisdictions that have a transition category.
    

• Support on account management on entities that MAS has key relationships with. This includes support on brief inputs for strategic meetings, assessments of KPIs and administrative processing of grants during annual reviews.
  
• Participate in cross-divisional working groups where relevant, including on initiatives such as assessment of the state of Singapore’s sustainable finance ecosystem and market, the development of MAS Sustainability Report, and convening of international experts through Advisory Panels.
  

[What we are looking for]