“Finance impact projects without spending a cent more. » If the promise of Green-Got, a bank with “extra ethics”, speaks to its customers, it also hits the mark on the job market. Its co-founder Maud Caillaux was one of the star guests of the recruitment fair Impact Job Fair, which was held in Paris on October 12. We understand why: voted the most promising start-up of the year by the LinkedIn 2023 ranking, Green-Got brings meaning back to a sector which has lost sight of environmental and social issues: currently, the 11 main Banks in the euro zone have a stock of more than 530 billion euros of assets linked to fossil fuels, or 95% of their total equity. Meeting with Maud Caillaux.
An eco-responsible bank, what does that mean?
An eco-responsible bank is a bank that allows everyone to put their money at the service of the ecological and energy transition by extracting it from the traditional banking system and directing it towards ethical projects. At Green-Got, for example, we finance the Breton company Ecotree, which works to reforest forests that have burned. We are also investing in the development of solar farms in India and Turkey, countries which currently depend on coal.
Job security in the banking sector is not what it used to be. Do eco-responsible banks have a better chance of survival in the face of the economic crisis?
Let it be said, the green and solidarity economy is profitable. In every crisis, there are opportunities to be seized. Financing the energy transition is not an act of charity, it is an investment. Renewable energies will occupy formidable market shares in the future. While companies with a high carbon impact risk seeing their growth slowed or even stopped by regulations. Working in a committed bank means choosing a career with a future.
Does ethics also involve quality of life at work?
At Green-Got, we apply a corporate culture inspired by the Anglo-Saxon model, which places the employee at the center. The key word is flexibility. The schedules are adaptable, but you have to be ready to put your hands to work. We do not have the ambition to be a small green and virtuous product: we want to have influence on a global scale and change a financial system that was previously believed to be immutable.
What type of candidates attract eco-responsible banks?
For several years, players in the banking sector have been going through a crisis of meaning. It doesn’t just affect young people. We have in our ranks former employees of Apple or Société Générale who, 10 years before retirement, left high-ranking and very well-paid positions because they no longer found meaning in it.
What are the criteria for recruiting an eco-responsible bank?
Whether you have the baccalaureate or you are graduating from HEC, what interests us is not so much your diplomas as your ecological values, your experience, your talent and your motivation. For a single job offer, we receive up to 850 applications. You have to be prepared to work hard to slip through the cracks!