Forvis Mazars in South Africa is seeking an experienced sustainability senior manager to join our team. This role presents an excellent opportunity to grow your career whilst helping our clients navigate and positively contribute to the sustainability agenda.
Your Why?
As a Senior Manager, you will be responsible for growing the business, training the team, managing sustainability projects, and expanding their expertise.
What will your day look like?
- The team lead for ESG DD service offering
- Providing technical consultation support to reporting and assurance teams
- Delivery of high-quality client and internal reports on the DD value chain
- Understand the investment cycle for ESG integration.
- Develop proposals and take an active role in business development activities including prospect meetings, preparation of proposals and project plans.
- Support in the further development of our advisory/consulting offering
- Facilitate strategy sessions at C-Suite level.
- Research and project management essential
- Conduct in-depth research and analysis on ESG standards, data, and trends.
- Analyse ESG data, evaluating its quality and performance to draw insight useful for investors and decision-makers.
- Create thought leadership and engagement tools, presentations, and documents for private market investors and other stakeholders.
- Engage with clients and partners in the financial sector to help them understand ESG.
- Ensure policy and regulations compliance and play a key role in advisory projects.
- Be creative in generating ideas and recommendations in pursuit of new and improved products and services.
- Be proactive and independent in task management.
- Have a strong analytic mindset and exceptional reporting and writing skills.
What will make you an ideal candidate?
- Relevant post-graduate qualification essential (sustainable development, business, finance or accounting)
- Knowledge of universal frameworks on sustainability and integrated reporting frameworks and standards highly advantageous
- Confidently hold C-Level client engagements
- Experience and/or qualifications in a business management-related field would be beneficial (e.g. financial, change management, strategy etc.)
- A minimum of 5 years focused ESG DD experience for private and listed entities
- Commercially focused and adept in applying sustainability knowledge to differing client situations.
- Good business developer with a network within the ESG value chain
- Commitment to the B-BBEE transformation agenda
- Ambition to grow within Mazars and participate in working groups
What additional competencies will position YOU for success?
- Self-Starter and pragmatic leader
- Team player with good communication, interpersonal and client servicing skills
- Proven ability to manage people and clients
- Excellent technical ability on business transformation
- Strong project management, research, analytical and report writing skills
- Problem solver and effective decision maker
- Solutions Oriented
- Catalyst for change
- Ability to work in a dynamic environment, shaping teams/services to meet evolving needs
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