Professionalism

Question 1

Give me an example of when it has been important for you to appear knowledgeable about your area of specialty.

Answer 1

Recently I was appointed to be part of the Nasdaq Nordic Advisory Board - which is an advisory board consisting of participants from the financial industry in Sweden.

One of the main reasons why I was appointed to be part of the Advisory Board is that I had, with the help from the Nasdaq Green Bond Network, which is a database that aggregate impact KPIs from green bond issuers - compiled a way to showcase Alecta’s impact of the green bond portfolio. I was in one of the Advisory meetings, tasked to explain on how Alecta work with green bonds - what we look for when we finance green bonds - but also the impact data.

I prepared a presentation including slides on how Alecta have invested in green and social bonds and also hosted a Q&A for the other participants in the Advisory Board - to spread the knowledge. Nasdaq decided to communicate externally the work I had done on two different seminars

Question 2

What type of specialist knowledge have you needed to be aware of in previous positions?

Answer 2

Sustainability + Financial knowledge

Question 3

Tell me about a time when you have collected data using various methods?

Answer 3

In my role at Alecta, I am the one that is responsible for the Net-Zero target for the portfolio and the calcuations regarding this, which needs to be done annually.

This task requires an ability to be able to collect data from various sources of information: including Bloomberg data set, CDP, and the company’s own reported data on carbon emissions

As there are very different sources of carbon emissions from several data sets, I quickly understood that this needed to be done in a more efficient way. I therefore took the initative to create a data hierarchy of carbon emission data - with the aim to decide beforehand on what data points should be prioritized over the other.

This resulted in a much more effecient way of data collection, but also making sure that the whole organization used the same data set of carbon emissions - which in my opinion is maybe the biggest success of this project - as we base the assessments on the same data.

Showcase my ability to work with large data sets - but also team work as I made sure to connect with other stakeholders inside Alecta and work together. Relevant for the future work.

Question 4

Give me an example of the type of information sources you typically use to get to the bottom of issues?

Answer 4

SISD

Question 5

Desribe the last time you had to analyse large amount of information to solve a problem?

Answer 5

EU Taxonomy

Question 6

Give me an example when you felt proud over an achievement?

Answer 6

In the beginning of 2021, I stepped in as the co-leader of the Net-Zero Asset Owner’s Alliance sub-work track on Financing Transition

I was tasked to develop the Alliance work on climate financing reporting and a guidance around this

In order to do this - I - together with my co-lead, decided to build a framework that would take into account the different asset owners reporting requirements but also geographical differences. I therefore decided to study all the different taxonomies existing - map them to eachother and create an overarching climate solution mapping.

The work resulted in both an improved framework on how to report on climate financing in line with the taxonomies, but also an in-depth guidance for asset owners - something I today feel very proud over.

I am convinced that my experience in the Net Zero Asset owners will be very useful for the future work at the UNEP-Fi North America

Question 7

What are the three work values that are most important to you - how does it translate into your work?

Answer 7

Reliability, Making a difference, self-learning & development

Question 8

Tell us about a time where you had a number of demands being made on you at the same time? How did you handle it?

Answer 8

25 different fund investments

Question 9

Give me an example of when you had to work to an important deadline.

Answer 9

25 different fund investments

Question 10

Give me an example when you have experienced a setback

Answer 10

Espresso House food solution

Question 11

How would other people describe your communication skills?

Question 12

Explain a situation when you sought advise from others?

Answer 12

Eu taxonomy
Platform on sustainable finance

Question 13

Tell me about a time when it was important to involve someone in a conversation?

Question 14

Explain how you take into account different persons opinion in decision-making?

Question 15

Give me an example of when you had to explain something difficult to someone who did not have your background/ knowledge?

Answer 15

University seminars
Analysts inside Alecta
Convey message in ESG
Speak the same language

Question 16

What experience have you had speaking formally in front of the others?

Answer 16

Seminars university?

Question 17

Give me an example of a situation when it was important for you to communicate a strategy or organizational objective clearly to others.

Answer 17

Statements Alecta webpage
Exclusion policies
Biodiversity
Researched on how peers had done it
Drafted text and shared it with my manager

Question 18

Tell me about a time when you have chosen not to disclose information to others?

Answer 18

Big part of the current job as I work with transactions that are often confidential pre-investment

Question 19

Describe a recent situation where you had to set clearly defined objectives.

Answer 19

Impact Group inside Alecta
Or NZAOA

Question 20

Tell us about a situation that did not go as planned and how you acted on this?

Answer 20

Myanmar

Question 21

Tell us about a situation when you needed to adjust priorities in your work?

Answer 21

Myanmar