Canace Wong
Canace is a Senior Consultant in Acre’s professional services team, supporting clients across carbon markets, banking, and insurance. Since joining in 2022, she has led search assignments and global team build-outs for corporate, scale-up, and multistakeholder clients.
Previously, Canace was a consultant at The Works Search, recruiting for corporate communications and public relations roles. She began her career in corporate communications and holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics. A Hong Kong native, she is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin, and beyond Acre, she volunteers as a career coach with Breaking Barriers, helping refugees secure meaningful employment in the UK.
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NewsHSBC partners with sustainable farming charity for food supply chain resilience
HSBC UK has joined forces with LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) to launch an initiative to support farmers and help combat sustainability challenges in the sector.
The HSBC Sustainable Farming Pathway is a joint venture between the bank and the sustainable farming charity to encourage a smoother transition towards more sustainable farming practices, enabling eligible LEAF Marque certified farm businesses (or those in the process of applying for LEAF Marque certification) to access discounted loan arrangement fees when applying for applicable products.
The bank found that 70 per cent of UK farms are taking up DEFRA approved agri-environmental schemes, to support nature and biodiversity enhancements.
Approximately one third (38 per cent) of farmers are regularly testing the soil in their fields to inform NPK applications (the three major nutrients required by plants are nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium) while 28 per cent of dairy clients have undertaken a carbon audit.
Farmers have identified the areas of sustainability that they would like to invest in, such as renewables (54 per cent), slurry storage (22 per cent) and energy efficiency (20 per cent).
Grace O’Dwyer, Interim Head of Agricultural Banking at HSBC UK said: “We are delighted to launch the HSBC Sustainable Farming Pathway to help farming businesses transition to more sustainable techniques.
“HSBC UK is a significant lender to farms in the UK and our research shows around two-thirds (70 per cent) of farms are currently making commitments to transition to sustainable practices. By working with LEAF and future partners, we have the opportunity to directly support farmers who want to make sustainable choices.”
Canace Wong, Senior Recruitment Consultant (Professional Services) at Acre, said: “In the UK, many banks are seeing year-on-year growth on revenue in sustainable finance. The banking sector has a big part to play in unlocking sustainable practices, through providing capital to facilitate decarbonisation, nature and biodiversity, and social sustainability goals.”
“At Acre, we noticed that there is an uptake of opportunities in nature and biodiversity within the banking sector in 2024, with several banks recently hiring senior nature and biodiversity specialists, as well as amping up their nature and biodiversity teams.
“HSBC’s new partnership with LEAF is another example of latest financial schemes to support enhanced nature and biodiversity outcomes from the agricultural sector. We look forward to seeing more similar initiatives in the sector.”
If you are a financial institution and currently reviewing your talent needs for sustainable finance professionals, please get in touch with Acre.
Open Positions from Canace's Team
Business Development Manager
Energy & Infrastructure
Paris, Île-de-France, France
On-Site
Are you a sales professional passionate about a net-zero carbon future? Do you want to work at the forefront of the Voluntary Carbon Offset market?
Removall Carbon is a Paris-based firm that specialises in impact carbon finance services, enabling organisations to achieve ambitious climate goals, while developing and structuring collaborative and tailored carbon funds and implementing rigorous and ambitious carbon offset programs.
The organisation brings deep knowledge of carbon offsetting projects and mechanisms, coupled with strong experience in financing ecological transition projects. The team strives daily to push the market towards greater impact and transparency by only supporting projects that have real, measurable co-benefits and equitable profit-sharing.
They aim to become a market leader in the provision of carbon solutions, designing innovative carbon funds and implementing rigorous carbon offset programs. The business development and client team play an important role by growing the client base across Europe.
To bring high-level expertise on carbon markets and nature-based solutions into the team, we're looking for a Business Development Manager with a track record of generating leads and new commercial opportunities in a B2B context.
As a Business Development Manager, you will be working on:
Lead generation and fostering client relationships
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Proactively engaging with the market to generate new leads and business opportunities for Removall.
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Leading on client management, ensuring that the business relationships you foster remain long-term, strategic, and commercial.
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Working on innovation; listening to clients and developing new products and service offerings that position Removall ahead in their field.
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Representing the company at high-profile national and international events to network with leading professionals in the field.
Extending global influence
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Contributing to the marketing strategy to spread Removall's voice in a rapidly expanding marketplace
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Developing understanding by implementing certain services and participating in key meetings with existing clients
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Contributing to the organization of professional events with global reach
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Developing market intelligence by conducting strategic, technical, regulatory, and competitive watches
As the ideal candidate you will possess
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Solid business development or sales experience towards the corporate/ financial markets.
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Track record of generating new leads and new business opportunities for the organisations you have worked with. Structured approach to business development.
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Experience in carbon markets is not required, however exposure to sustainability-focused markets would be highly appreciated.
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Excellent credibility and presentation skills - you'll be working with prominent key clients and expected to represent Removall towards senior stakeholders.
Interested?
Acre is supporting Removall Carbon in the hiring process for this position. If you would like to apply, please do so online, or direct any questions you have to Canace Wong at canace.wong@acre.com
