Management Level
Senior Associate
Job Description & Summary
A career in Corporate Sustainability and Social Responsibility, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to deliver positive social impact with measurable, long lasting results in the areas of youth education, social inclusion and the environment. You’ll focus on coordinating and overseeing the organisation’s charitable activities, designing and implementing programmes to ensure safe working conditions and compliance with all environmental regulations, and developing policies and programmes to ensure organisational awareness of government legislation and regulatory issues that affect the organisation.
Our Sustainability and Social Responsibility team works to enhance PwC’s brand and reputation as a socially responsible leader. As part of the team, you’ll help us plan initiatives that continue to make PwC a reliable and socially responsible partner in the accounting market place, our communities, and to our existing and potential clients.
As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:
- Use feedback and reflection to develop self-awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
- Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
- Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
- Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
- Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
- Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
- Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
- Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
- Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
Role Summary:
Joining PwC's Sustainability team in SATIC presents an exciting opportunity to shape a meaningful career, contributing positively to some of the most pressing global challenges. Through speed, collaboration, and imaginative thinking we’re helping our clients to build trust in the climate transition by:
- Enhancing credibility of non-financial sustainability and climate reporting.
- Driving sustainability transformation programmes to ensure the transition to Net Zero is fair.
This role primarily focuses on Sustainability Reporting, providing an opportunity to work virtually with the PwC UK practice, to deliver a broad spectrum of sustainability reporting services to UK-based clients as well as clients around the world. The next 24 months will be a critical phase for Sustainability reporting, given the numerous new and emerging Sustainability regulations expected to be applicable from 2024 onwards. As our Sustainability Reporting team expands, we are actively seeking talented professionals with a background in Sustainability Reporting or non-financial control frameworks, to play a leading role in delivering complex engagements to senior client stakeholders.
Qualifications / Certifications required:
We will consider a range of university degrees and professional qualifications in a relevant subject matter area. However, on top of this, candidates will be expected to demonstrate experience in client delivery across one or a number of sustainability reporting requirements.
Experience required:
- Experience aligned with the outlined activities.
- Knowledge of asset managers, banks and insurers from working within the business or providing professional services consulting support to firms in the financial services sector.
- Experience of having worked on implementations of new financial services regulations.
- Up to date with emerging regulations and standards such as TCFD, CSRD, SDR, SS3/19, ISSB and global transition planning activities, such as the Transition Plan Taskforce in the UK.
- Project management skills with a demonstrated ability to work on multiple engagements effectively.
- Experience in a fast-paced environment and effective prioritisation skills.
- Experience in managing and coaching teams.
- Clear and effective communication skills: particularly in managing complex stakeholder landscapes.
- Ability to build key stakeholder relationships, both internally and with clients.
Responsibilities of role:
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the project team in various Sustainability reporting activities, including:
- Current state Sustainability reporting assessments.
- Regulatory impact assessments and gap analysis.
- Sustainability reporting landscape reviews and horizon scanning.
- Sustainability materiality assessments.
- Sustainability reporting maturity assessments.
- Sustainability reporting implementation design.
- Sustainability reporting assurance readiness assessments.
- Manage client-facing and internal engagements, overseeing progress and budgets.
- Serve as a subject matter expert on projects, specific topics, or reporting frameworks.
- Stay updated on the latest reporting developments through continuous research.
- Manage day-to-day relationships with key client and internal stakeholders.
- Identify new client opportunities and contribute to the development of sales and marketing materials, including proposals and thought leadership.
- Contribute to the further development of our Sustainability Reporting proposition and approach, including digital assets.
People Responsibilities:
- Develop junior team members through effective coaching, supervision, and training.
- Practise upward management and communication.
- Foster a positive and inclusive team environment.
Desirable skill sets include:
- Demonstrable financial services expertise including qualified accountants with experience auditing financial services companies or investment funds.
- Development of sustainability strategy and models to support economic and financial modelling skills, data collection and management, and financial accounting and annual reporting under IFRS.
❖ Industry experience required:
We work across all industries - public sector, private sector and financial services clients, so value experience in one or more of these industries.
Travel Requirements
Up to 20%
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
No
Job Posting End Date
December 14, 2024
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